As a gay man, I never thought I’d move back to Hull from London – but I love it
metro.co.ukJay and I moved in with his nan in Kent, then got married – both of which were very challenging experiences. Planning a pandemic wedding was a nightmare and living with an elderly lady was also not ideal as newlyweds.Once the height of Covid-19 felt like it had passed, we knew we had to move on with our lives.
We want to start a family in the next five years but going down our preferred route – surrogacy – is incredibly expensive. So, we needed to live somewhere we could save money and had a support network.
We realised that London is just too expensive to have any sort of stability, so returning was out of the question. There were numerous chats over Zoom with my family who still reside in Hull, and they encouraged us to move there.
Jay and I didn’t make the decision overnight and we had several heated exchanges. He didn’t want to move too far from his friends who were still in London and as a creative person, worried about what Hull had – or didn’t have to offer.
