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.

Tuftytail I absolutely agree Don't want to be judgmental but everyone looks ground down and just struggling. The trouble is the better off live in almost segregated areas due to the price of properties, attend the same playgroups, toddler groups and schools right through to the end of secondary. At my dc’s primary for example there were no children in their class in receipt of pupil premium. I think think those divisions caused a lot of resentment. So many of the estates are soul destroying

I live in a seaside city on the south coast. I like being near the sea and beautiful countryside.

We are NW and deciding on a move to Wales, or somewhere out in the stix where we can buy a bit of land and build a tiny house, retire and live off our house sale.
In the real world, I'm working on dh atm.

I love where I live.
15 minutes to unspoilt coastline, 20 minutes ito the heart of a cosmopilitan city.
15 minutes to an international airport.

I live surrounded by native woodland in a low crime area. Four Universities on my doorstep.

No matter how rich I was I wouldn't move ( and interestingly JK Rowling lives nearby, so it must be a good place!

Coastal Maine. It was -12 when I left the house this morning, so no, at the moment I don't like it very much.

Ask me again in May.

This is fab! Insightful. Don't we have lovely places in the UK? I need to move because I hate where I live. I can't spend my life living somewhere that sucks the soul out of me. Life's too short. I just have the fear of uprooting and still feeling the same somewhere else 😬 Currently in Surrey small commuter. Dying a slow death. Not sure whether to move further out (long commute maybe similar issues provincial and small town - or maybe not!) or move back in towards London (short commute feels like home but then....small kids, pain in the ass getting about, expensive) I think we'll probably move further out to proper countryside and be nearer the sea. I adore being by the sea.

London. It’s fabulous. But I live on a road with no diversity and not representative of London at all. Everyone is wealthy and white, children all head off to boarding schools at 13 who work in Fortnum and Mason over Christmas. I do have a slight concern with the DC thinking this is the norm though.

Northumbrian pit village, 2 miles from the beach. Been here 3 months, wish we'd moved 30 years ago. They still have functioning services, Newcastle is 30 minutes away and my job takes me through bleak and beautiful countryside.

I'm not in the UK, but I love where I live-it was my dream to move here from the age of 11 or 12, and a combination of love, luck and hard work brought us here 6 years ago! Unfortunately it is horrendously expensive to buy a house, and we will probably have to move in the next few years to become homeowners. Our current house is not perfect, and has no garden or terrace...
But I found my ideal village, near the sea, good local shops, beautiful countryside... I feel lucky every day.

A village in Bedfordshire. I love it here. Bridlepath opposite my house and I can walk my dogs for miles.

Unfortunately we are moving next week. Still Bedfordshire, but a town on the mainline to London. Better commute for my DH.

I'm sad about it tbh. I love where I live. New house is bigger and nicer, but I'll miss my fields and quiet living at the end of a little road.

I live in a suburb just outside of wolverhampton. Wolverhampton gets really bad press but I love it here and wouldn’t want to move! Close to my parents, good schools and Birmingham isn’t too far away. The only thing rally wrong is the beach is sooo far away!! It’s a day trip just to get to somewhere on the coast and the closest places are probably Rhyl, Blackpool or Weston super mare!
I wouldn’t move away from my parents but I would love to be by a beautiful beach somewhere!

Yes.

Northamptonshire. 45 minutes to London by train. A country park minutes down the road, two more within ten minutes' drive. A big shopping complex within five minutes' drive, with restaurants aplenty. Co-op within walking distance.

My actual town is not all that desirable but there's no crime on the estate we live on, neighbours are mostly lovely and we're at the bottom of a quiet cul de sac.

I often think that I'd like to live by the sea but it's pretty great for us here all in all.

Small city, in the northeast. Love it here. All the amenities we need on our doorsteps, including a bigger city! Affordable. Beautiful countryside, just a walk away. Short drive to some of the best coast land in the country. Fast trains if we want to shoot up or down the country.

I live in a nice suburb in Manchester in a period house. Lovely neighbours, very good facilities nearby and the place has a real sense of community.

Dream is to live in The Lake District, but I work in a specialist digital media role, so need to be close to a major city.

Does your work dictate the type of place you need to live in?

I like it but the rest of the family love it. You can walk to good schools, swimming pool, cinema, athletics club, golf course, good walks, library, theatre, a range of churches, good gp, lots of clubs and activities and we are close to a large city.

We moved to the Kent South Coast a year ago from the suburbs of London via the Middle East and absolutely love living by the sea. It was a huge gamble - a town we had only visited a couple of times and we had sold our house and only had ten days to find a new one whilst we were in the UK on hols. All v pressured and scary but we pinch ourselves regularly as there really is nothing like it (and DH stills commutes to London for work and on a good day can do it quicker than when we were closer - under an hour!) Go for it! Life is an adventure 😁

800msprint my husband always jokes that I want to live in ‘Highgate on Sea’ just imagine if London was on the coast how good it would be 😂

I used to like it here, but not much any more. I'm 10 miles from Liverpool, and 13 from Chester. There is little or no public transport after 6pm, especially for Chester. So much has changed in the last few years, and I think our local council is one of the most corrupt in the country

I neither love nor hate where I live. I'm in an ex-mining village in Yorkshire. It's a bit rough with some social deprivation and all the problems that brings but it has some nice people, a fairly good community spirit and, although it doesn't feel like it, it's quite rural and there are woods and parks pretty much on my doorstep. It's also cheap - our rent, for a 3-bed semi with a decent garden, is less than £100 a week. Posher areas might look nicer and tidier but I don't think I'd feel like I'd fit in.

Yes I love it. I engineered coming back here (within 35 miles of where I was born) after living all over the UK and on three continents

I absolutely hate it. South Wales valleys - incredibly insular, with many, many narrow minds. No aspiration, nothing to do. We moved here for family reasons, our immediate neighbours are nice and there are some pleasant walks, but I prefer a city mentality - more open, more diverse, less mistrustful of strangers and infinitely less judgemental.

I live on the edge of the countryside, only 30 mins from central London but with clean air, wild deer, foxes, badgers and dozens of country walks in woods, hills, heath all on the doorstep.

I love all that. But I miss the diversity of being in London itself.

I live in "Nappy Valley" in South West London. Despite the name, I loved it more before I had children - it's a gorgeous area but so expensive and we are crammed into a small flat with no garden. However if we were a lot richer then it would be heaven on earth, lots of green space and everything within pottering distance with a buggy.

I'm desperate to move out to the countryside where we can afford a proper house for our family but DH is very anti commuting

I do like where we live. A tiny village on the Hampshire/Sussex border. Just a few houses, a farm and a church. Beautiful walks straight from the door across downland footpaths. Good community. Lots of social events between us and next village. 1.5 hours to our London offices for both of us. Half hour to a stunning beach which is dog friendly.
Easy drive to Chichester for shopping. Good organic meat and eggs with 0 air miles (or road miles, come to that).
Dislike badgers and moles in the orchard. Dislike having to drive to get. pint of milk.

Iampicklerick I would also move to Brighton but no way would DH do the commute, I have friends we do it but it’s hell!
I definitely want to get back to a more buzzing place where you don’t have to drive all the time.