Do you like where you live?

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Where do you live? Why and do you like it or not?
I'm in a commuter town. I don't like it but I'm not sure of where best would suit me.

I live in Edinburgh. What's not to like?😀

Love it.

I live in Liverpool. The best city in the world.

I live in a town in Northumberland, not too far out of Newcastle, and I quite like it. It’s not very attractive but it’s got great amenities- walking distance to cinema, park and shopping centre, close to Newcastle and the coast. The people are friendly and it’s quite cheap

We live in very rural Denmark. Definitely not an exciting place but with a very high quality of life and plenty of genuinely stress free time with our children and pets. It suits us perfectly.

Impicciona

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Sounds incredible

I live a few miles outside a village midlands. Very rural, farm and bog land all around. Our nearest village is beautiful, very quaint and a very desirable location. No big housing estates (just a few small ones and mainly one off houses) and the few councils houses in the village (not estates just a few rows here and there) are lovely.

I would love to live in the village but there are just no houses for sale. We have a massive site and huge house and garage but you need a car to go anywhere.

I live in the middle of a small but capital city. I love it. Walking distance to a short bus ride to anything I want. Great choice of restaurants if we want to out for a quick bite. Short walk to school for my kid. A few Amazing theatres a few minutes walk from our house.

I live in a rundown seaside town in Essex, I hate it so much. I grew up here and really regret moving back as an adult. We've been here two and a half years now and finally have the means to leave soon. It's filthy, the parks are covered in glass so our toddler can't play, the town centre is full of empty shops or charity shops, all green spaces are covered in dog shit so I can't let toddler play on them freely, dog shit every hundred yards along pavements, litter everywhere, public transport is abysmal so getting around without a car is difficult, etc etc etc. It's just not a pleasant place to live. I'm really looking forward to leaving! Just hoping that dhs work come through with the relocation package so we can leave as soon as his probation period is up rather than 6-9 months afterwards!

I’d love to move but schools are such a concern for the two with autism. One is in mainstream and we had a vile experience when our youngest tried mainstream we vowed he’d never go back into it. I also worry about changing counties. I’d love to live somewhere close to nature and the outdoors so we could get out and walk. Although we live near to a beautiful old city I find it quite stifling.

Affluent leafy suburb of a post-industrial Yorkshire city. My immediate surroundings are fine, nice house, nice area, good neighbours, easy access to countryside, but I dislike the city as a whole. Intensely. It's just grim and depressing. We're retirement age empty-nesters and considering a move to Cumbria somewhere around Penrith/Appleby/ Kirkby Stephen.

Barrow and I hate it. It's very suburban which I find boring

*harrow

Love it. Tiny hamlet in the middle of Portugal, 15 minutes from a decent (and beautiful) town with an amazing history. 1 hour to Lisbon and 40 minutes to the coast. I have my horses and other assorted animals at home and friendly neighbours. Only downside is the constant threat of fires in the summer but we do everything we can to minimise the risk.

Wiltshire market town. Landed up here by accident when we came back from abroad. Would like to be closer to the coast but other than that we are very happy here.
Went back up to London last week. Loved it but I couldn't live there anymore.

caucasian it looks like we live in the same town.
It makes me so sad. It’s not the town of my childhood. It scummy, and run down, violent crime, homelessness everywhere, areas that you’d be mad to venture into for your own safety.
My two DCs have been instructed to get out. Go and have a life and get away from here. I’m not sure if we ever will be able to but if the opportunity arose you wouldn’t see us for dust.

I live in.....”The most brute and beastly shire in all the realm” (according to Henry viii)
I agree with his view
It’s only lifelong apathy that has kept me here.

I love my house and the fact it's right on the beach. I love being in Cornwall.

I don't really love village life, I tolerate it, but I'd rather we were more isolated. I'd prefer to have fewer neighbours and be away from all the cliques I find so boring. I don't really click with many people in the village, I find my sense of humour and tastes are just so different. I expect many think I'm quite odd, and despite really trying to like people here, I find them quite dull, so...

I still feel like a Londoner as it's where I grew up and we only left six years ago. I wouldn't live there again though.

Actually I'd quite like to move to rural France or Portugal as I am totally done with the UK. But I can't, as we have a disabled DS who relies too heavily on services here. I hate feeling trapped like this, but it is what it is and we're in a beautiful spot.

I love where I am.

A lot of people want to live here as its brilliant for families (parks, countryside, good schools) and 5 min drive from a city with fab restaurants and commuter connections.

I'm in a traditionally 'rough' part of Liverpool. I loooove it here, we are looking for ways to not have to move!

People are friendly (really friendly, neighbours brought us new baby gifts and rescued our bags when we left them in the street during an emergency trip to hospital!), we are walking distance to town, to the river and to the best parks, public transport is ace, there are great restaurants ten minutes walk away...just no 4 bed houses!

Derby. Nope, hate it. Run down city with no culture. Couldn't be any further from the sea in every direction. We both want to move back to the South West where we are originally from but can't afford it.

I suspect I live in same area as a pp. walking round the town centre is like a Boden catalogue. School run is the same. I used to love it when younger but I have changed in my mindset and now dislike it but it is easy to commute to my job which unfortunately can only be done in about 5 cities round the uk.

Schools are great but I am looking at a career change so as soon as schooling is no longer an issue we can move to the coast

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Sounds like my town! Maybe we are neighbours

North East Scotland. Don't much like the snow or winter darkness. But the area is very pretty.

I live in Haworth, West Yorkshire. it's nice but so ridiculously hilly (I have to cycle everywhere as we only have one car. Our street alone is a 20% gradient) and it can also be very exposed and windy in the winter. But fab views of the moors.

Agador I was going to say does it start with a ‘b’ ? Not Burnley Blackburn or bury though ! Saving grace for us is that the kids are in a really good secondary school, one’s nearly finished there but the youngest is in year 7 so a few years to wait. Advised them both to move away for uni.....