Has anyone ever moved to an area they just didn't like?

[FullofSurprises]

Just that really...
Have you ever moved to an area where you disliked? And why?

I moved to an area in the Midlands and I put my DD in the local school here. Ever since moving here it's been horrible. I've been shouted at by another parent on the playground. Had stroppy neighbours that won't let me cut my own apple tree in my garden. And basically the entire village is cliquey and horrible and I wished I'd never moved here.
Anyone else? Please tell me I'm not on my own.

[Maireas]

Tufnell Park. (North London) Dog mess everywhere, nightmare to park, a lot of break ins, unfriendly neighbours, street filthy.

[Chipsahoy]

@StoneColdBitch wonderful news!
We are moving from the midlands too. Can’t wait!

[Giggorata]

We moved to the midlands years ago, because we couldn't afford the house and rural setting we wanted in which to bring up the children.
I honestly felt as though my life had ended for about a year, then everything started to fall into place. Friends, career, etc.
Then the DC grew up and went back down south!
DH is a countryman through and through, and I think he would curl up and die if someone made him live in a town. So we stayed.
So I sort of put up with it.
It's not my choice, but I don't desperately yearn to be anywhere else, either.
Have also acquired some good friends and neighbours over the years and the village we are in is pretty good, lots of activities, contacts and some cultural stuff. (pre Covid, anyway)
So I guess it worked out.

[StoneColdBitch]

Sorry to bump a thread from July, but I was thinking fondly the other day about chatting to people on this thread about how much I hate my xenophobic little corner of the Midlands Well, I'm moving! Since I last posted on this thread, it's become obvious that both my career and my husband's are stagnating here, mine in large part because I have children - I've been fairly openly discriminated against at work for having kids, and the local norm is very much that mums don't take on senior roles (or indeed don't work at all) until their children start school. We've been here 3 years and haven't been able to make any real friends at all. So we decided enough was enough! We've had an offer accepted on our house, and are moving to the much more cosmopolitan city I was living in when I first met DH. So incredibly happy and relieved to be getting out of here! Sorry if posting on an old thread is annoying, but I wanted to share my happy ending!

[Bloodybridget]

@basset86 you'd do better to start your own thread, this one is very old, and isn't really anything to do with your question.

[earsup]

@Deathraystare

When I moved to London we lived in a horrible area called Layton

Just when I thought people were leaving London alone!!!!

Do you mean Leyton in Essex (Essex/London). It sounds like it!

Leyton in London is now like Stoke Newington !! Full of vegans and cycling and cafes etc and a house will cost you 800 k !!
I moved to Barcelona for a year in 1992, I spoke Spanish but not Catalan..struggled to last the year out as was studying..locals very unfriendly and often spoke Catalan to me and ignored any Spanish spoken...went to Bilbao for a year and it was lovely with friendly people...made friends quickly...didn't make any friends in Barcelona !

[basset86]

hi all,

Need some assistance. We just moved to the UK, as hubby got a job. We are looking to by a house. We can basically live anywhere in the uk but looking more in the middle for his traveling purposes. Can you suggest a nice safe, friendly, village or town. Been looking at Banbury,lichfield. But as we are not from here not sure what are good areas and what areas to avoid. If you all can please assist with recommendations. I will appreciate it.

[OrlandoInTheWilderness]

To be fair I live in Lincolnshire and it is lovely. We have gorgeous beaches an hour away, beautiful walks on the wolds and you can be in London in an hour from Grantham station. I have lived in Lincs most of my life and I love the quiet of it.

[felineflutter]

[MrBennsshop]

I’d lived in a rural area all my life. I’m used to fields & clean air. In the midlands the traffic/plane noise was endless, there was nowhere to walk, no open countryside, no escape. I asked a neighbour where there was woodland and he told me to drive 15 miles to the nearest wood.confused

That is honestly one of the most bizarre posts I've ever read on MN. Nowhere to walk and no countryside in the Midlands

[madcatladyforever]

Yes Bedford, what a dump. I'm so glad I'm out of there.

[Alienin]

West Midlands. I didn’t choose to move here, but can’t leave. I have gone out a lot to discover reasons to like being here. The referendum gave me a delightful chance to discover just how racist people are here.

[neatknottedfinger]

[quote FTMF30]@neatknottedfinger I think the pp was joking.[/quote]
I'm sure of it but somebody has to stick up for the place! and the Midlands tourism paid me to

[FTMF30]

@neatknottedfinger I think the pp was joking.

[Billyjoearmstrong]

@Flatpackback

ThisbackwithaVengeance your post sums up the experience of lots of Londoners so why do so many people persist with the stereotype that all Londoners are filthy rich, super hip, stuck up, woolly minded, arty-farty liberals? It’s just plain lazy, misguided and insulting.

I wish I was filthy rich. Wouldn’t have had to leave London in the first place then.

[neatknottedfinger]

@Shallowsubmarine

I’m thinking of moving to the Midlands - what does everyone reckon?

It's a huge place, whereabouts are you thinking of?

We are in the Midlands. In the last few weeks we've been going out for local day trips and trying to avoid the crowds. We've been watching military planes take off and land, been to a gliding club, the coast, canoeing on the river, and hill walking all within an hour of home. We've also done a scenic drive through some lovely villages and been fruit picking (free/charity donation as the field owner had no fruit pickers and didn't want the fruit to go to waste). All of this has been free apart from petrol and the charity donation.

About all we haven't done is find somewhere decent to go paddling so if anybody knows anywhere within two hours of the middle of the Midlands then please share the info.

[Shallowsubmarine]

I’m thinking of moving to the Midlands - what does everyone reckon?

[Flatpackback]

ThisbackwithaVengeance your post sums up the experience of lots of Londoners so why do so many people persist with the stereotype that all Londoners are filthy rich, super hip, stuck up, woolly minded, arty-farty liberals? It’s just plain lazy, misguided and insulting.

[Flatpackback]

Unfortunately “Brexitland” covers whole swathes of the country, take a look at the voting results map. I lived in a newish suburb of a city in the southwest for many years. I absolutely hated it, I never found people on the same page as me despite trying numerous activities to try and make some friends. It was great for the DC and decent schools but as soon as they left home I moved. I didn’t move far but the vibe where I live now is totally different. I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss whole areas because you end up in a particular spot that doesn’t suit you.

[annabel85]

@LST

I was reading through and saw someone call the midlands a shithole and I hate it. If people hear the area that they live in and more than likely are stuck living in, a shithole enough it becomes a mindset. Why does it matter if we fly tip, be antisocial, it's a shithole anyway. Its bullshit. That's why I commented because it isnt fair to hear. I am proud of where I live. It used to be the centre of the industrial revolution. Then the workers were all shat on and now snobs from down south think they can just call it a shithole like it means nothing to the people living there.

There'll be a lot of these type of threads when HS2 is up and running and the West Midlands becomes another dormitory area for London.

[MartySouth]

People who voted out are no different than those who voted to stay!

That is so obviously not true. People who voted to leave must necessarily have a totally different world view to me. That's nothing to do with hate at all, I really love DM who voted leave.

I'm sure that most leavers are as friendly, hospitable and charming as remainers but I would find it really hard to live somewhere where there were a lot of them.

[puzzledpiece]

Lived in Eastleigh in Hampshire for 5 years, and hated it. Everyone was so unfriendly, never spoke, treated us as outsiders as we were in council housing as a short term measure after leaving the forces, and needing to look around for housing. No one said a friendly word, not in shops, school or in the short term job it took, just to keep busy. Vile place.

Moved to a small village in Yorkshire and it was like the sun came out. Everyone speaks, everyone smiles and helps you out. Street parties, local fun runs, fund raising, etc. Plus a nice house we bought and lovely colleagues at work.

[singingsoprano]

We moved to a Humberside steel town 33 years ago and lasted 2 years. My eldest 2 dc have never forgiven me for where they were born .
We lasted 2 years and it was the most miserable time of our lives. We were definitely outsiders.

[800msprint]

Wow! Commuter belt all is forgiven. It seems the
Midlands is the worst place in the world. (I quite liked Brum when I visited)

[DerbyshireGirly]

@StoneColdBitch correct!