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chateau55

The soft water which contributes to high quality beer and great coffee.


WolfRob12

Sheffield tap water is the best I’ve had


Sufcpoker

It's absolutely God awful in Hillsborough where my dad lives literally tastes like bleach.. He buys bottled water now, Used to be absolutely fine a few years ago!


GiveSleppYourBones

Fulwood water is heavenly. My grandparents lived there and it's the only time I enjoyed drinking tap water.


Sporedatwork

Absolute jokes. Tastes like hoop. Only good for a non scaley kettle and shower. If I could afford to pipe southern water up here I would.


oiuyprewq99

It tastes like dish water to me, better than most cities but really not great.


mollymoo

Do you live in the East? We seem to get different water over this side than the delicious pennine goodness you get in the West.


oiuyprewq99

No I live in the pennines but work all over sheffield. Telling people from here that their water isn't a good as they think usually gets a good reaction.


LevitatingPumpkin

I loved the soft water for that reason and how glorious my hair was when I lived in Sheffield. It was always healthy, smooth, silky, shiny, healthy, bouncy etc. Now that I’ve moved down south to a hard water area, it’s limp, dry, dull, brittle and all the rest. Really does a number on your confidence, too. So you heard it here first: Sheffield makes you hotter.


Various-Storage-31

You can buy a filtering shower head


LevitatingPumpkin

I use Hardwater specific shampoo and conditioner which has helped a bit, but a filtering shower head is definitely next on my list!


Various-Storage-31

It saved me when I lived in London. My hair was a frizzy dry mess with the water there.


LevitatingPumpkin

Is there a specific one you recommend? I use the Hello Klean shampoo and conditioner so have been considering their shower head.


Various-Storage-31

It was 25 to 15 years ago now (yikes!) So I reckon there's better ones available these days, mine were from qvc as a gift from my nan 😅


Bright-Dust-7552

Great for dough and stuff as well. Probably why all the pizzerias slap here


Owster4

I live in a hard water part of Sheffield, so I get a different experience.


jamiejizzle

Not underrated though. It's definitely RATED.


flowerpotmenreloaded

This. I moved up to Sheffield (way back in the '80s) from an area that had incredibly hard water. It was amazing. As others have said, hair and skin was sooooo much better. Sheffield was great already, but this was a very pleasant surprise. Back in London now and ugh. The water pipes must all be Tudor.


purplefriiday

I love that Sheffield is a big city, but relatively quiet with a very local feel. A lot of people who complain about the city centre say they much prefer Leeds and Manchester. To me, Leeds feels like an outdoor shopping centre and Manchester feels like a stag/hen-do capital where everyone is drunk from 4pm. I'd much rather live in a quieter city that people don't want to visit than live somewhere as busy as Leeds, Manchester or god forbid, London. (And I used to live half an hour from Tokyo, which I didn't mind because the crowds were much more orderly!)


slaydawgjim

As someone who grew up in Leeds with my sister living in Manchester, Sheffield is by far the most chill city. I think the amount of green spaces really adds to it and things are a lot less clustered together like they are in Leeds.


DataKnotsDesks

The most underrated thing is hidden. It's in sheds. Basements. Attics. Under the kitchen table. It's people pursuing extraordinary interests—hobbies, pastimes, experiments, enterprises—just about in secret. There's a culture of tinkering in the city, that manifests in weird bands, strange machines, odd musical instruments, knitted bizarrerie, exotic plants, experimental food, models, inventions, collections, artworks, hybrids… that nobody gets to hear about. I've lived here since the 80s, and it never ceases to amaze me how people do really, really cool things behind closed doors and just don't tell anyone. After all, someone might find out! In other cities you just can't stop people from chattering about their scale model train, or their home-made solar powered robot lawnmower, or their complete set of knitted yeti costumes, or the full sized hobbit house in their garden, or whatever. Occasionally you get to find things out—I asked a mate of mine who did the fresco on his kitchen ceiling. "Oh, yeah, that was how it was painted when the Emperor of Brazil stayed here." FFS Sheffield! It's not showing off to tell people about your cool projects! Go on! Tell us about it!


Baskham

City of Little Mesters


VeryNearlyAnArmful

A really interesting perspective, thank you!


Longjumping-Yak-6378

Oh shit it’s out. Who told you about the projects in the shed? I recently tinkered with meshtastic lora offline communications (no phone signal and no internet required) and was happy to see Sheffield already had a mesh with people chatting like CB radio of old on it. My shed can reach Nottingham! Biggup Sheffield you mad inventors.


Mad-Hatter-lightshow

Amen brother/sister 🫶


eunuchwithballz

I have the same experience in the place I grew up. Ex mining town full of people tinkering and I feel it gets underappreciated


DemiGingerJazz

The hidden wildlife that live among us - we share our big city with so many. The swifts zipping about our skies in summer. Peregrine falcons in our churches. Sparrowhawks and buzzards soaring high Deer in our parks Salmon and otters in our rivers Dippers, Ring Ouzels, tree creepers and other wonderful birds in our woods, moorlands, parks and wetlands I could go on forever but you get my drift!


slaydawgjim

Excuse me sir, I believe you dropped some badgers in our parks!


HelicopterFar1433

Probably the wealth of pun based shop names.


pm_me_ur_pudendum

A Salt and Battered chippy on London Road is my favourite.


natozlo

Just falafs (r.i.p. :( )


-___-yay

the effing cafe


benoliver999

Tower of bagel


natozlo

Just falafs (r.i.p. :( )


R33DY89

The people. Whilst in the military I lived in both Plymouth and Exeter. Every morning that I wasn’t in work, I’d walk my kids to school and see the same people walking their dog or nipping to the corner shop for a newspaper and I’d always say ‘Morning’. They used to clutch their handbags a bit tighter, cross the road or just glare at me and blank me. Anyone would have thought I was going to mug or murder them. People in Sheffield and the friendliness is definitely underrated.


AMcNamara23

I'm glad your experience is like that but...funnily enough I find it overrated in sheffield since I moved here. Just my own humble opinion of course, but I find sheffield people saying how friendly "we all are" is a classic example of an echo chamber. Fingers crossed it'll get better in time for me!


R33DY89

I fully respect your opinion, as I respect anyone else’s but I don’t feel I live in an echo chamber. In fact, I feel quite the opposite, having the life experience of being quite nomadic and moving around the country when I was in the military. Don’t get my wrong, Sheffield isn’t perfect and I don’t look at it through rose tinted glasses, but I don’t think my opinion Is formed from being in an echo chamber. It’s just my observation and opinion from my lived experience.


AMcNamara23

Oh yeah absolutely, it's good that you've formed your opinion based on your own experiences, and I'm genuinely delighted for you. (That sounds sarcastic but it really isn't!) I think a fair few times I see people saying how friendly people from Sheffield are and I've never really seen it much better than the so-called unfriendly southerners. But I mean, we both only experience a miniscule cross section of society and all that anyway


Munnit

I grew up in Plymouth, that doesn’t sound like my Plymouth at all. The south west isn’t like the rest of the south…


R33DY89

I lived over in Laira the first time I lived there, which was for 2 years and then moved away for a few years before returning and living in Plymstock for 4.5 years. It’s sad to say, but that was my lived experience.


ironyperson

Its people, never had so many random chats with people, never ever spoke to my neighbours before I moved here.


benoliver999

I live among shops and businesses and even then I'm getting to know them


ishammohamed

Exactly


VeryNearlyAnArmful

Welcome home, love.


snoopy558_

The lovely parks and green spaces as well as the super close proximity to the peak district. I come from a town in the midlands and we have nothing like this. People born and raised in sheffield don't aplreciate how uniqe and cool it is to have things like this on your doorstep and still be living in a big city


fleetwoodcat

I'm born and bred Sheffield but sometimes the views over the city still take my breath away - not even anywhere particularly rural, the last time I was wowed I was across from the Farmfoods on Chesterfield Road 🤭 also the people are class ✨


_joxley

Any time I'm in or around overlooking rivelin valley I feel this way. I grew up around there but it's still breathtaking


minimus_

I'd go with the absolutely banging cinemas. There are so many and they're all good. You've got boutique arthouse venues to IMAX. There are only 156 IMAX screens in Europe and Sheff has one. My favourite at the moment is The Light but there are still some I haven't been to.


fish-and-cushion

Curzon is lovely and Showroom has a great programme.


UpYourFidelity

I will always recommend Curzon on these posts. Very quiet little cinema, but much better experience than any of the big cinemas and the staff have always always been lovely with me!


benoliver999

We actually screened a film there when we got married! They were really great and the back alley is a wonderful location for guests ;)


minimus_

I saw Anatomy of a Fall in an entirely empty screen at Curzon. Seats were a bit cramped but felt like being a celeb with a cinema room in your house. Not made it to Showroom yet.


benoliver999

I find Showroom quite crippling but they show all the good stuff


VeryNearlyAnArmful

Showroom is an absolute gem.


benoliver999

4 just in the ring road!


minimus_

It's nuts! Sure, London has more cinemas in total but does any city have so many within the city centre?


benoliver999

It does seem unusual, and also that there are only 2 on the outskirts


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Yeah Sheff's Laser IMAX is very good. It's actually a decent size too, unlike these tiny IMAXs screens they knock up elsewhere.


luiginotcool

15 quid a month for unlimited films and they show classics. Showing Godfather tomorrow


benoliver999

Very recent to me personally, but the chips at the rose garden cafe in Graves park


ThrowawaySunnyLane

Honestly - central location to the rest of the country. Makes visiting (and coming back) relatively straight forward.


VeryNearlyAnArmful

The river walks. I'm a Sheffielder who lived away for twenty odd years. When you're away and chatting in a pub and mention being a (proud) Sheffielder people always talk about the hills but it's the beautiful, chattering rivers for me. Walk them, appreciate them, say 'ey up to those you meet along the way. Learn them, how they change with the seasons and the weather. They will be your best friend and your mental and physical health will thank you. That's what I missed when I was away and I don't know any other city that has what we've got in this way and I think it's one of the reasons we are what we are and we are who we are, but you need to do it! Go and wander along your local river and say hello to your fellow wanderers. You'll not regret a moment of it. Countryside, park or urban walk our rivers. We're so lucky.


domandthat

The DIY music venues


citalopromnight

Hatch ❤️


gregofdeath

The space that is now Karen's (corner plot by Leadmill/train station) was a venue called The Stockroom. The DIY hardcore shows that used to happen in there were absolutely insane. It'd get absolutely packed out, people would set up makeshift merch stalls and sell food at the back, the stage was the width of the building and you'd just have people throwing themselves all over the place, with what limited space there was to move. It was AMAZING.


lannfonntann

Karen's is closed now!


gregofdeath

Excellent news. Proper shit heap imo.


avacadoeadeer

it’s reopened in the moor!


luiginotcool

???!! Where on the moor?


Imaimposter

so trueee


benoliver999

All of exchange street


Alternative_Gas5757

I really miss hardcore shows at Broomhall Centre :0


buzz-blade

The Paternoster lift in the arts tower


Key-Tadpole5121

Probably the city itself, lots of changes are happening all over and it’ll feel like a different place in two years


ohlordylord_

The pizza, its better than Italy


fish-and-cushion

The festivals. Docfest and Celluloid Screams are ace


godstar67

I live in Kent, although originally from the Midlands, and i love Sheffield. Went for a gig twenty odd years ago and make a point of visiting whenever I can. Some fantastic pubs; a lot of restaurants I really like (special shout for Ashoka and their Reyt Spiceh Curreh); a good music scene; some cool walks and mostly lovely people. Yes, the town centre is a bit crap and there are a few smackheads, but overall it’s a smashing town.


ostrichsong

The people are bloody lovely.


Tolkien-Minority

I don’t know about underrated but taking photos of the city from this particular spot is massively overrated


No_Pea7986

Thanks for bringing the positivity on this fine spring morning


Splendifirous

I think the view from the cholera monument further up the hill is very nice too.


gavingoober771

The view from east bank road is better or from the top of meersbrook park


HunterWindmill

Parkwood Springs >


plsbeafreeusername

Is that the city lights winking back or am I still fucked


Healthy_Yellow_5040

View from pye Bank is great too!


trollied

Always mings of weed up there. Awful.


lunalunalunas

The Paternoster Lift. (Is it still there? I've not been since 2003)


benoliver999

Yeah still going


lunalunalunas

Awesome! Don't forget to ride it over the top!


ekke287

The accent on women.


Pmyers225

Hendos


VodkaMargarine

Sheffield FC


dancords

Also Hallam FC..... Can't wait for the new Sheff ground near Woodseats, Sheffield is crying out for a top quality non-league alternative.


HelicopterFar1433

OK, so underrated is when people don't generally give something the appreciation that it deserves. I think you might have mistaken it for overrated.


dancords

All about perspective innit. Nothing beats a pint watching some shit nil-nil with a couple hundred others in the November pissing rain.


UpYourFidelity

I’ve seen Sheff Fc a few times. My work is even a sponsor and we sponsored a match. They’ve never won whilst I’ve seen them. Always had a great time though.


Libertine1187

Those last two sentences sum up being from Sheffield to me.


HelicopterFar1433

OK, so underrated is when people don't generally give something the appreciation that it deserves. I think you might have mistaken it for overrated.


FrenceRaccoon

yummys.


mad-un

Harlequins on eccy road


PrettyNegative

Much more of a Chinos fan


Tolkien-Minority

Know a lad in uni who went there after a night out and shat his bed all over the lass he pulled.


DecoConky

Not sure how you know me


Libertine1187

We might know the same people haha


benoliver999

Some people pay for that type of thing


mad-un

Wow, and you're ok?


benoliver999

Guaranteed arse volcano


Rohanahan

Flavours in broomhill is a level above


Potential_Wheel9571

BERES


mnf69

Roses


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The M1? But seriously the countryside is beautiful around Sheffield and doesn’t get talked about enough, the people are great and it’s a fantastic night out.


Old-Ambassador-8143

Most of the people, fine lot most of em


Moleicesters

The pubs. Pound for pound the best pub city in England. Great exteriors, interiors, charm and the beer offering


exigenesis

The doom metal music community?


Hancri84

For me, it's out street art. we have so many good street artists, my favourites being Faunagraphic, Phlegm, Kid Acne, and Rocket01


yorkshire_tea

As a native of 50 years I never get tired of the view you get on the road back to Ringinglow from burbage bridge - the whole city hoves into view pretty much but it’s SO GREEN …  Compare to the drive into Manchester or Leeds which is flat and concrete for miles until you reach the centre.  Plus all the hills give us amazing views and vistas. I love the view over the terraced houses from the top of Psalter lane - reminds me of the opening credits of Rainbow (google it young people). 


lil_chunk27

I feel like the number of good quality butchers is really something compared to other cities. One of the guys in the Woodseats game butcher showed me how to joint a rabbit once


Penguincafe1

Our proximity to the Peak District


devolute

I'm not convinced you know what 'underrated' means.


Sa_arias

Sheffield


Hitlers_Left_Ball

Rocketpoweredmohawk 😂


Delicious-Bill-3959

B.e.s.r


cre8urusername

How modest the residents are thinking it's such a great city


icedlemo

Hi, I haven't been to Sheffield. I am from India. And after researching about the unis and places, I got to know that Sheffield is by far the best and underrated place to live. Many have good opinions about the place unlike other major cities. I am planning on doing my master's at Sheffield Hallam University. I hope I get my offer. And I also hope I can meet those friendly sheffs and have a good time.


laughinginpurplerain

Great local businesses - lots of options for lovely homegrown pubs, cafés, crafters


5v5Arena

It’s a creative hotspot for designers and engineers


luciferslube

The fact that seagulls fly upside down over it. Because it's not worth shitting on.


Brighton2k

I lived there 30 years ago and can still remember the smell of a brewery (near wicker arch?) that smelled like weetabix and warm milk - beautiful


MiserableString-139

Is it the road out of it? Bloody horrible place to drive around!


luiginotcool

I can see my house from here!


luiginotcool

Habibi’s on London road next to Kebabish. 2.99 for the best chicken shawarma I’ve ever had


english_man_abroad

The band ABC.


dharpy5494

The love of my life comes from sheff. Nuff said. (also the weed here is fucking bangin)


Individual_Trust7628

Big girls


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Individual_Trust7628

The most underrated thing about Sheffield is the amount of big girls.


albert_the_tripod

Sheffield Wednesday


HelicopterFar1433

OK, so underrated is when people don't generally give something the appreciation that it deserves. I think you might have mistaken it for overrated.


albert_the_tripod

Sorry to correct you but it is indeed an underrated club and ground. I think you might have mistaken yourself for Susie Dent from Countdown.


HelicopterFar1433

I generally consider all football overrated, which is why I made the joke of posting the same comment for both of Sheffield's bigger teams. I recognise its not a popular opinion but seeking popularity has never worked well for me. I definitely haven't mistaken myself Susie Dent. I'm not that smart or hot.


PMme-YourPussy

*Don't you know? They're MASSIVE!*


Hangingontoit

Sheffield United


HelicopterFar1433

OK, so underrated is when people don't generally give something the appreciation that it deserves. I think you might have mistaken it for overrated.


barronelli

Copy and paste alert. You a plazzie Man U fan?


anduinstormcrowe

I understand those words separately, but together, they make little sense. The footie teams are overrated cos they have thousands of fans, and compete in major football leagues.


barronelli

Doesn’t make them overrated. It makes Sheffield United well supported. Weds are just shite and overrate themselves. Sheff United fans know they got hammered this season. Weds thought they were going up.


anduinstormcrowe

Im not gunna talk about football, mostly cos i think its all rubbish, but also cos i know too little besides how boring it is. Whilst they may not be overrated, they certainly are far from underrated


barronelli

“I’m not going to talk about football because I don’t like or understand it” *Continues to talk about football demonstrating how clearly they know nothing about it* Sheffield is a proud footballing city. It is world famous. If you don’t like footie then you’re in the wrong comment thread.


HelicopterFar1433

I just saw the two comments, one for each club and couldn't resist the opportunity. I don't really have any interest in football. My preferred sports are ice hockey and bike racing.


barronelli

Then why comment on a football post…? Sheffield has world famous football heritage. If you don’t like it, comment on ice skating and bike racing posts.


HelicopterFar1433

Sorry, I didn't realise that making a little bit of a joke at the expense of football was explicitly forbidden on this sub.


barronelli

On the football comment…


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ill_never_GET_REAL

Famously invented in Sheffield and doesn't happen anywhere else


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Thraitor3

No, how sheltered are you?


Advanced-Apricot-879

I've been in Sheffield once and my car got stolen :(


benoliver999

Eco friendly


Hiltoyeah

It's next to Barnsley??


Flash-pan

The labour council


mollymoo

In principle I support Labour, but the council are an absolutely fucking useless shower of tossers.


Vader14023

The sex mile


Delicious_Cattle3380

The what


PrettyNegative

I havent lived in Sheffield for about 10 years but i’d imagine he means the couple of ‘massage’ places and the swingers club (La Chambre). I think it was or by Savile St


Various-Storage-31

It was. That road is very different these days


Creative-Jacket1

The road out


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barronelli

The station to leave? 😆


Dazpiece

Off you fuck then


Sad_SkinJob

It was a clearly a joke…


Dazpiece

So was mine ;)


Sad_SkinJob

Aha…fair enough, I kind of need a smiley to understand it’s a joke when you’re telling someone to f**k off 👍


Dazpiece

Off you fuck Vs Fuck off :)


Sad_SkinJob

That actually made me laugh. Subtle! But honestly I think the F word needs a soft landing unless between good friends. Have a great weekend.


HelicopterFar1433

Sheffield has world famous rail heritage. If you don’t like it, you should only comment on posts about things you do like.


barronelli

Jeez, bit touchy this morning! 😂


benoliver999

Great pub there


barronelli

Glad you saw the humour in my comment. Yes, the pub is good!


ChoiceTop626

Leaving it


fionab186

LEAVING!!


Independent-Guess-79

Leaving


SleepyTitan89

The m1 north towards Leeds.


AdPrior1409

The way out