I've not lived in the UK for 20 years (aside uni - and even then I worked abroad in summer hols). However, we're now planning to go back - for all the usual reasons I suppose - searching familiarity and easier access to things we like (sports/clubs-related).
How do you figure out where you want to go?
I moved around a lot when I was a child and so there's nowhere which feels like "home". My husband is from a city renowned for its "difficulties" and he doesn't want to raise the children there.
We have no interest in the South-East and are not tied down for work.
Our options and preferences are right now as follows:-
- Wales - mid- or Cardiff-ish? Pros: Welsh Assembly, outdoors stuff, my family Cons: When my mum dies, I think my dad will go to scotland and we have no other ties in Wales
- Loch Lomond/Western Highlands - Free uni tuition, great outdoors Cons: A total pita to get to London for work-related stuff
- Aberdeen: Wild & wonderful - bit too far from anything else?
- Northumberland: Neither of us have lived there but we visit now and then and love the wilderness and the friendliness of Newcastle and have some friends there. However, no family there.
We're not planning to move back until early 2015 but we said by the end of this year we'd like to have figured out where we're going.
How did you make this decisions? Did you regret it? Did you end up moving back and then moving on again? I'd love to hear your stories.