Best place to live in the UK

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I really want to move and make a fresh start. Where in the UK should I move to? I have very few ties and genuinely want to do this.

Northumberland. Beautiful coast and country but also close to Newcastle and Edinburgh for a bit of city life. I'd move there tomorrow if I could.

Rutland
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/news/11502556/Rutland-named-as-Britains-best-rural-place-to-live.html.

But only if you want the country life! (And you aren’t a second home London wanker as we have enough of those!).

I live in the best place in the uk

Great schools, great social activities, two municipal pools, river sports, four Cycling clubs, two book clubs, other social clubs

Great shopping, many cafes- probably to many

Great market

Good train links and Motorway links 1.20 by train to London 25 minutes to Birmingham
10 minutes on bike into countryside,

Plenty of jobs

Nice parks and many activities in parks

Two castles

Alnwick and Warwick often come up in these type of polls.

What appeals to you op?
City, coast, countryside?
In my biased opinion Shropshire is the best place.

What's your budget? What do you like out of life and need in a home?

ivykaty44 shhhh we don’t need the house prices to go up more.

Currently in cambridge and utterly sick of overpriced city life. Want peace and quiet and a slow pace of life. Don’t need wild nightlife; just want some peace and not such high density living.

I would love to move to Scotland. Specifically Edinburgh. It's my favourite place to be. Can't though now as my dc are teens and although 2 would be happy to move my middle child would hate me forever. Plus my dm would feel abandoned and she wouldn't come with us unfortunately.

We moved from Essex to Shropshire for similar reasons. Very peaceful and cheap!

Theaveragewife, I didn’t realise you lived here to! 😅

Have been considering Norfolk in general but Norwich specifically? Alan Partridge aside, Is this a bad idea?

Someone on here the other week complains how bad Norfolk was and everyone agreeing...

Ok that idea can fuck off then.

I’d love to be near to the coast, though

West Wales..:)

Depends on what you need for work and your budget. The East Midlands is affordable in the most part (avoid inside the national park) and has peaceful countryside with smallish cities (but big enough to have a full set of shops) we are only a little over an hour from central London if you feel the need to visit and have two airports nearby (and only 1.5 hours to Heathrow on a good day). I live on the edge of the city so I have public transport, cheap cabs (we use them more than buses) but within five mins drive or 15 mins walk I'm in rolling hills. Best of all, not too many tourists - I hated living in Cambridge. Plenty commute to London from here but it's £10K a year

I grew up in the remote highlands and am here for a week for my DMs birthday.
Stunning but it’s a TWO HOUR drive to the supermarket...

East Sussex.
Rural
Coast
Beautiful
Enough going on.
An hour and a bit to London
Only downside. Hard to avoid m25 if you want to get to any other part of the country.

North Devon? Plenty of towns, coast, hills, counttryside

Norwich is nice, and parts of north Norfolk. And bits of Suffolk such as Southworld - not sure I’d want to live there though. Some bits are shitholes though, much like anywhere else. I think it was Kings Lynn that was mentioned as being a dump? The downside to Norwich is that it’s so far from anywhere else on shitty roads.

Oh, Northumberland is mentioned up thread. Some lovely places and fab beaches. Bit nippy though.

What exactly do you want from your new home? What are your must haves?

Woodbridge- suffolk?

West Yorkshire. Beautiful countryside and well served by motorways and transport links, warm and friendly people.

I don’t really have a list of things I want as such. I’d just like to know great places to live and take it from there. thanks for the suggestions so far.