If you were to have a 2nd home, where would it be?

[babychange12]

Seeing so many reports of Londoners with second homes, has made me daydream a bit about having a 2nd home. ;) any suggestions on where we could buy?

Preferably with a massive garden, close to beautiful walks, beach etc. Oh and cheap too

But if I won lottery I'd upsticks and move to a hilly region in remote Scotland where the long garden rolls down to the Lough...

A holiday every day...

Hayle in Cornwall, or The Gower in Wales.

French Riviera. A nice villa somewhere near Cannes.

@TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet

Yes that's what I always say about Suffolk and we live here! It is drier and warmer generally. We usually go away in the UK for our holidays and the weather is alway better back home .

But I agree with Pembrokeshire, the beaches are something else. It's like Cornwall without the tourists.

South of France

I live rurally already, so would probably get an apartment in Canary Wharf or similar.
Otherwise, a villa in Lanzarote or Cyprus
Or a cottage on the North York Moors

@DinosApple thats exactly why we love it. The first time we went it was a blisteringly hot summer and it was like being on holiday abroad! Also I don’t know what it is but the wide open spaces just really call to me, it gives such an amazing light to everything.

Northumberland really is a close second for me though.

Antibes.

East/North Yorkshire coast - Staithes, whitby, Robin hoods Bay, Filey, flamborough.

Orkney

Provence or Andalusia 😍

Madeira or Ibiza

Caswell or Langland Bay on the Gower. Google Langland webcam for a live taste...

Cornwall

Portballintrae on the north coast of Co Antrim or Aviemore in the Highlands.

My dream would be to have a small flat in central London - probably Primrose Hill, I used to live there and adored it - and a large house on a cliff top overlooking the sea somewhere. Not too fussy where, but with a sandy not shingle beach, and not too far north - I grew up on the North East coast and it's bloody freezing most of the time.

I'd love a Hebridean hideaway, Still gutted my parents sold theirs. So are they!

Easy. South of France, near Ste Maxime. Or if it has to be in the UK, on the Gower peninsula.

I’ve given the Second Home Idea a lot of thought.
So this isn’t dreaming.
IMO, to make the most of your second home it needs to be no more than a couple of hours from your main home. That way you can use it at weekends without spending more time travelling than staying there. You’d go more often so you wouldn’t have to spend time deep cleaning and changing beds on arrival (been there). If you rent it out on Airbnb you can also manage it without an agent.

But it needs to be in a completely different environment, so city vs seaside/lakeside/rural. That way you get the best of both worlds. Ideally with facilities for all ages so what is lovely for little kids doesn’t get stale for teenagers. And last of all you need to be rich enough to afford a real holiday away on top of your second home. Feeling obliged to go to the same place every holiday can be frustrating, especially when the kids are older.

Following that reasoning, I’d get a flat with garden space in a fishing village near me which is nice all year round but is very popular with families self catering in the Summer.

But in my dreams it would be a fisherman’s cottage in Polperro!

Vienna or Victoria on Vancouver Island.

Donegal. Actually pretty much anywhere on the coast of Ireland from Portrush in the north to Westport down the west coast. Any spot in between those two points would suit me well!

I'd money was no object I'd have a houseboat, a posh campervan and a fancy apartment at the very top of a really tall luxury apartment block. It'd have a balcony all the way around and extensive views over the city. I'd use it to take citiscape photos at different times of day and year.

I am really lucky and have a second home. We call it our 2nd home not our holiday home because we use it frequently. In order to do this,
as Shtmajormummy says, it has to be easily accessible from your main home.

Ours is 1 hour 40 mins away on the coast in the East Neuk of Fife. (I am not Catherine Calderwood).

Amagansett

We already had a second home in the Algarve, bought around 20 years ago, and loved it so much we moved here 17 years ago. So the Algarve is now our home