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.

That’s fair, @nothingchangesagain! I’m liking the votes for Norwich. So not everyone there is like Alan Partridge, then

I hear you OP, I’m Cambridge too. I’d move to Dorset great vein half the chance.

Given!

This is just a thread to ask mumsnetters where they think are good places to live.

With all due respect, one man's meat is another man's poison as it were.

The best place to live doesn't exist, only the best place for you
So it really matters whether you thrive in the city or the country, do you hate wind and rain? if you have £60,000 or £600,000 or £6M budget and so on. Can you work from home or do you need certain facilities like public transport or super fibre broadband? plus if you drive or not, if you have DCs and what school age they are.

So many factors make for someone's perfect place to live.

As an example, I love the countryside, hate noise, like reasonable proximity to the coast, don't worry about being near shops and facilities within say 7-10 miles. Where we live is perfect for us, but we had a very healthy budget and the area is considered unaffordable for many. We wouldn't be able to afford to move here and fulfil all our criteria if we were relocating now.

We are in Norfolk and want to move away for the same reason. It’s too busy. They are building so many houses on the farmland everywhere. The hospitals, schools and roads cannot cope. The local councils are very backward.

I think it was Dereham the dump and stoke is better than Norwich.

Kings lynn is worth a visit. It was a historic royal port.

We may escape to Devon or North Yorkshire where we both have roots.

If I could ever persuade DH to leave London, I'd be looking at:-

Somewhere in North Devon (maybe around Croyde?) for the lovely beaches and pace of life

Forest Row (East Sussex) because it's really nice and villagey and full of lay lines so a bit alternative.

Cambridge (I know, you want to move out, but I like the vibe).

Nicer parts of Hastings or Rye.

But since that's never going to happen...

Rural Dorset is perfect if you have nowhere to be.

There is nowhere to have an expensive, busy day out, no over-priced shops selling you stuff you don't need, no 'must-visit' fancy restaurants. Nobody cares what you are wearing, who made your handbag, how old your car is or what your bathroom scales say.

There are just the things you need... and space.

You have to be ready for it. But once you are it is like honey for your soul.

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The Solway coast in Dumfries and Galloway is a lovely part of Scotland but within easy reach of Glasgow and Edinburgh

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Devon. I moved here 4 years ago and I adore it; it's got everything and is so beautiful.

West Wales and Shropshire would be my choices. Just beautiful and wonderful lifestyles

Flintshire!
The smallest county in wales.
Where I am I am twenty minutes from chester city centre, so close to beautiful Cheshire.
I am thirty minutes from Wrexham city centre.
I am sixty minutes from the cost.
I can walk for fifteen minutes and be at a shopping centre.
I can walk for five minutes and be in a field.

poppy aha yes Dereham is a dump! Don't move there OP. Most of Norfolk is lovely though, and not Alan Partridge-y!
We're down the road from Stoke now and it is absolutely not better than Norwich. It's awful. But weirdly everyone from Stoke thinks it's God's own city.

Hexham in Northumberland. If you can afford it, look at Corbridge as well.

Kathryn you've converted me to Flintshire and I'd never heard of it before now!
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@SnackSnackEatAndCrave
I love it
Live in a small village called Broughton that has a factory called airbus which makes plane wings :)
There's another lovely village called Northop where Michael Owen lives (he's from the neighbouring village of Hawarden)
And there's a place next to his house where I really would like to get married in Sychdyn (pronounced suck-din) called Soughton Hall