You got the job? when do you find out?

Wakefield is not that bad, at least it's not Hull, if you want culture, there's Bretton Hall (where I narrowly escaped doing a fine art degree), which has the Yorkshire sculpture park, if you want beer, there's a whole shitload of excellent breweries in Yorkshire. (Ex CAMRA girl here.) I seem to remember the Talbot & Falcon in Wakefield, and if you're going to Leeds, there's Whitelocks and the Duck & Drake. Hurray for Beer.

Middlesborough might be a bit scary, I seem to remember there being no birds there at all, due to the ICI (chemical) factory.