Anyone dislike where they live???

I don't HATE it but it's not my ideal, it's run down and soulless. The primary schools are good but the secondary schools aren't brilliant. I can't afford to move though so I'll make the best of it.

Yes. I quite like our house but I really dislike the area. It's fairly dull and featureless and feels like we're in the arse end of nowhere. We came here for work so we're stuck for a while yet.

I would prefer somewhere that's bigger and friendlier. We have a few years to go until DC finish school. But the light is at the end of the tunnel!

Me. I love my home and in many ways I'm lucky to live where I do. But I don't feel I fit in. Have managed to lose more friends here than I've made. Never really felt at home here. Since lockdown, it's become very obvious that I don't belong here. I felt trapped by my job for a long time but now I'm looking to move in the next few months. I've actually been talking about wanting to leave for years and years, but it's only recently that I've started to find the courage to think I'll actually do it. It takes a lot to make a massive move but I can't keep going on like this for another ten years or more.

@Nanalisa60
Agree. I had no excuse because I grew up in the countryside so didn’t have any illusions.
It was love that made me move and for that reason alone I’m putting up with it.

Hopefully at some point we can move but highly unlikely it would be back to London.

Cottagepieandpeas

I wonder how many more people will be saying the same as you in another few years, loads of people moved out of London to the country because of Covid!! Don’t really thing they have thought about it the countryside can be very boring.

Meant to say and then you are stuck. X

Yes, I really, really regret moving to the town we now live in! I'd move to so many other places, but dh isn't arsed. It's been the source of a few arguments actually.

But, on paper it's nice here and is good for the kids in terms of safety and schools, amenities etc. We've been here 7 years and I still hate it.

@Darbs76
If I was you I wouldn't wait as when the children get older they don't want to go usually and then you're stuff because you don't want to leave them behind. X

I've just realised I don't even have this house as "home" in my phone list. Because it doesn't feel like it. It's just the street name.
My old house isn't far away but the neighbours are nice and I had a view from my bedroom.

I used to as we moved into a small, ugly flat to get my DD into a sought after primary school. My intention was to move after about a year but we ended up staying there for the entire six years until secondary applications. It was in a very suburban area - all houses, no shops. I didn’t like the area really or the flat itself. I now live nearer to a busy high street in a nicer, bigger flat and I am looking after it much better and feel more content.

I am going to move once my mortgage tix comes to an end next July. I love my house but I have ptsd and the event happened in this house so despite redecorating and changing the layouts of furniture I can never forget. Also the actual place have great facilities but is a huge town (city size) and although my road is quite nice we have had druggies dropping needles, I have had my car keyed a few times too. I am looking to move to a large village/small town still fairly local.

I hate London and would love to move to a nice village, it dangerous, fighting, stabbing, bombs, shooting, mugging you name it I could go on. X

Hate living on a main road, for 20 years, yes really, was Dh's house when I met him. Occasionally look at other houses, but nothing is as good as what we have.

Can't wait to move but will be around 5 years before we can.

Me. I live in a narrow minded Brexity Tory town where foreigners are frowned upon. A bit of a problem, since I am one. I've lived here for 22 years because it was where we could afford to buy at the time - my late husband needed to be close to work and didn't drive. Now my DC are grown up and at university. They're gay and guess what - this town is full of homophobes too.

I'm working on an escape.

Very little choice in where I live/move to. On disability benefits. Private renter as council takes years and there are even worse areas compared to this where they have their one bed flats. I have a nice landlord but the area is shit. It's close to town and a very deprived area. My street was in the local news just this past week with social housing tenants saying that it wasn't safe for them to raise their kids here; so obviously the new block of flats built as that's the only social housing.

I dream of a garden so I could have a cat or a dog. But I wouldn't live in London, even if I was paid to.

I absolutely despise it and everyone here

I disliked it during the pandemic lockdowns. We’re in outer London and if you can never move from your immediate area it gets very dull here. No lovely walks and cycle rides from your front door, as we heard everyone bragging about.

However in normal times I quite like it (although didn’t choose to live here, long story) because it’s close enough for central London and for the countryside/ sea side at a push.

Me! I absolutely loathe the commuter town I live in. This part of the south east is massively overdeveloped, way busier than it used to be but I think for me it goes deeper than the fact that for me this is just too busy an area. So many bad things have happened to me since I moved here, it's forever linked in my mind with those situations.

I am stuck here at the moment because of family commitments but there is no way I am going to stay here beyond that.

I’m lucky enough to live in a lovely village. It’s the sort of place estate agents call ‘highly sought-after’.

Our local city, however, is a total dump. It has declined massively over the last 20 years. What was once enjoyable level multi-cultural diversity has become a third world shithole notorious for its sweatshop garment factories in which illegal immigrants are ruthlessly exploited.

Yes. We live in a nice house in a great area, but the area is such a tourist hotspot I find it makes it nigh on impossible to live a normal life once you get out the front door.

First world problems I know, but it's changed so much in the last 30 years I can't wait to move ☹️