Have you ever fallen in love with a place...

[vivacian]

...and if so, did you do anything about it?

Recently I spent a couple of nights at the coast and the best way I can describe it is that my soul fell in love with the place. I’m seriously thinking of upping stocks and moving there. (I am in a bit of a midlife rethink place in general).

Has anyone else ever felt like this and what did you do about it?

I felt like this about Beijing when I visited in 2007. Ended up upping sticks and moving there on my own. Ended up staying there nearly 10 years! Best experience of my life.

Every time I visit Edinburgh I crave it for weeks after I’ve left.
I don’t stay too far away though about 45 minutes by car, hour and a half by train.

Love everything about it, the look, the feel, the smell. I think it makes my revisits all the more enjoyable though and think if I moved there the magic would be gone.

Yes. In the early noughties we rented a villa in SW France for a holiday. It was divine. DH bought it when it came onto the market a few months later. We have redeveloped it significantly and it is now our 2nd home. We plan to spend four to eight months a year there when we retire.

Yes - and have been back there nine times in the past four years. Ultimately aim to spend significant chunks of time there, if at all possible.

My in-laws live by the coast. I LOVE it. However, my family are here, my husband's work is accessible from here and as the kids grow up and spread their wings we live in a really easy place to get too and from. One day we will end our days down there. For now, I have no MiL issues as I soooo look forward to going to see her. 😂

Yes, but as much as I loved the places I was clear enough that I couldn’t continue my life as I wanted it if I moved there so I shelved the idea into the “plans for when I retire” box. The place will suit me better when I’m older, not now.

Yes. Singapore.
Sadly a very expensive place to live.

I go as often as I can and always feel just right and so content whwn I'm there.
If I win the lotto that's where you'll find me.

Yes. I foolishly turned my life upside down to move there and wrecked my life.

Lindos In Rhodes. I started going there in the 80s and although so touristic and expensive now it’s a place very close to my heart.

London - life long love affair, started fifty years ago on my first visit.

Budapest - only place that has ever turned my head to be unfaithful to London - just fell in love with a physical ache for it. Overwhelming.

@dontalltalkatonce - where was that?

I absolutely love my hometown and have never found anywhere the same. I’ve lived in various beautiful places in various parts of the world but I always missed home. Even though I have no friends and only one member of family still living in my hometown dc’s and I moved back 3 years ago. It’s the best decision I’ve ever made and my soul is now at peace.

vivacian where did you stay?

For me it's Cyprus. We have a house there. We were married in our garden with dd and my niece. It was the best day.
My dd died in 2015. It's one of the places I feel closest to her.
I love the people the food and as soon as we arrive I just relax.

I was meant to be welsh. Love everything down there.i like to be slightly outside of cardiff..round by the knap , barry
Dad had the chance to move but didn’t..probably mum wouldn’t leave her mum and sisters
I go as often as I can.
Only had one visit this year..sometimes we’ve had 5
Loved florida when we had a house therE
Brittany when we had a place there
I fall in love with so many places but my home and people are in the north east
We travel down to N Yorks every week for our caravan and that’s fab too

San Sebastián in Spain
Ah the memories that place holds 😊

Budapest, love the city especially the Pest side. It's our annual xmas break.

Yes, just by the river Deveron, near Inverkeithny in Scotland. I've never felt anything like it.

Yes and we bought a little cottage there. We go as much as we can but couldn't live there permanently as the cottage is too small and impractical for day to day life and too far for work. It's perfect for escaping with dp for a few days. It's our beautiful little getaway place.

Palermo. And the Occitane region of France. And Barcelona, but that was pre-2005, it's gone downhill since then.

New York. I’m a Londoner and it’s the only place I have ever been that from the moment I first visited (20 yrs ago now) I thought ‘This feels like home. I could life here. I would be happy here’.

It was love from the start.

I never did get to live there, but have visited many times since and still have that feeling every time.

Where I live. Cumbria but not tourist part. I got a job here after leaving university intending just to stay a few years and moved away after those few years but missed it so I came back. I intend to spend the rest of my life here.

Never felt at home in the UK.

In the early 80s we ended up on a driving holiday in the states in a crime ridden area which I fell in love with.

Felt like I had come home.

Dp thought I was totally mad.

40 years later I think he was the mad one.

Still think that is where I belong but can’t afford the place now because they have cleaned the town up and it is millionaires row now.

@etimram Singapore for me too! The aim is to live there one day!

Yes! Lewes. Bloody beautiful place.