If you could live anywhere in the UK, where would it be?

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Having a chat about where we would like to live but we're obviously constrained with practicalities like work and children's school. So conversation led to Ok if I didn't have to worry about work and children's education where would I like to live and I didn't have a clue!
So where would you live within the UK if there were no constraints and why?

Where I live now would be perfect if it weren't for bloody Dr Beeching . There are buses, but it's 90 minutes to the big city. Otherwise I love living here, there's lots of quirky stuff going on.

Next level dream territory... I'd have an ancient cottage on a wild corner of Dartmoor and enough land for a small flock of sheep. I'd also have a tiny studio flat in Bloomsbury/Central London so I could go back to uni and do my dream degree.

We relocated to my dream area in 2015 - I love it here. Beautiful rolling countryside and picture postcard villages - but easily accessible to the whole of the UK rail and road.

I live on the Rutland/Leicestershire border. It is absolutely delightful and votedthe nest rural place in the UK to live www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/news/11502556/Rutland-named-as-Britains-best-rural-place-to-live.html

I used to live next little road along from Lambs Conduit Street - I loved living there! Am now near the coast in north Essex and would never move to a city again, this is now my forever home.

I love where I am here on the South West Wales coast, it's stunning. But would also be happy in the North lakes or Highlands /islands of Scotland.

Oh, but with a bolt hole in a beautiful town: like Edinburgh, Bath or York.

Am now near the coast in north Essex

Furries. Me too. It’s a good place to be isn’t it? I love it.

Hampstead Village in a tall house overlooking the heath. I love where we are now too, but Hampstead would be even better.

Alexa - it certainly is a good place, I feel very lucky being here. The only thing I need to find is a lovely country pub that does a cracking Sunday roast, the ones I’ve tried so far don’t come up to scratch. So, if you have any recommendations they’d be appreciated!!

God this thread is making me miss Scotland! I've had a wee cry! 😢

I’m happy where we are in Somerset. We’ve lived elsewhere but I wouldn’t leave the southwest now.
I’d like to live close to the sea again though, either Devon or near Lyme Regis.

I lived in Gloucestershire for several years. Beautiful area, but in the main I found people incredibly standoffish. They didn't like "incomers" and it was really difficult to make friends. Glad to be back in the Midlands.

I would move to Skegness,Lincolnshire,i visit 4 times a year,totally in love with the place

Glasgow west end or south side. With a bolthole in Largs for ferries to the islands

Harrogate, around Bath or South Devon.

York or Harrogate or Malton. Mainly York.

Im in North Wales. Would not move from here. My roots ate here. Its my cynefin

We're in Northumberland, and out village has everything Wellcolourmehappy requires. Not very picture postcard, being a postwar addition to the county plan, but within cycling distance of the beach, 10 minutes to Amble, 30 minutes from Newcastle and 5 miles from DGS. We have made it to the dream.

We're in exactly this position, trying to choose. Can live anywhere, children spread far and wide and sadly all parents now gone. It's harder than you think to come to a decision, but am pleased to see both of our favourites on lots of lists!

I want to live in Lyme Regis. And so with that in mind I've bought a small place just outside there now, for weekends. Don't judge, it's my pension plan (I don't otherwise have one) and it gives me a bolthole until I can sell both places and buy a modest forever home. It's my happy place. Quite an expensive place to live, though.

Innse Gall, in particular maybe Fraoch-Eilean. Just enough people so your not completely alone but not enough that you aren't alone, iyswim.
Other than that Orkney or the NW Highlands. It's been my dream for my entire adult life to live on a wee croft in the middle of nowhere, subsistence farming. Not glamorous, I know.

London, preferably Hampstead. Never likely to happen unless we have a big lottery win.

We moved out of London over 20 years ago (both born in London and lived there for 40 years) and both regret it even though we like were we live now

BeachtheButler and Furries - I used to live next to Lamb’s Conduit Street - was awesome to be so central. I used to walk to walk on Soho Square. Very very lucky to buy there, was my first flat that I owned.

I’m Blackheath now, but if I could live anywhere, it would be to return to where my family are, NE England, near Newcastle.

OP - it has everything you want - miles of golden sandy beaches, excellent restaurants, culture, shops, nightlife. Tynemouth is a lovely village right on the coast, but prices have rocketed in the last 10 years. 20 min into the City, about 30-40 min into proper countryside - perfect!!

I would love to move to either Hampstead Village or a coastal village with good transport links to London.

So many people saying Scotland and its become a bit of a fantasy place for me to think about moving to. How much colder is it than South England?

I would move back to London if I ever won the lottery. Can't afford to buy there now.

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