Newcastle is a great city to take a startup from napkin to reality. It wont take much to open the door of any business or investor and the community is generall

Newcastle is a great city to take a startup from napkin to reality. It wont take much to open the door of any business or investor and the community is generally welcoming (Kind of un-British) in some respects.It's also beautiful city and happens to have one of the lowest costs of living in the UK. However Newcastle and the North East in general suffers from a shortage in quality developers. Primarily because they're either entrepreneurial with their own startup or finding offers from startups in London with double the salary on the table. Newcastle isn't really trying to be anything other than itself, it understands that there isn't an abundance of developers and it's trying god dam hard to bring the right talent to the area. Newcastle university offers a great CS course headed up by Professor Aad van Moorsel and with the right startups keeping that talent in the area shouldn't be hard. If you're located in London and looking to take that idea into a reality, Newcastle and the North East(York & Durham) are great choices. £10,000 can give you 6months of decent living up here. As opposed to 2-3 in London.