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.

@Puffalicious

Can I just say to anyone unhappy where they live, come to Scotland! We're very friendly, have the most beautiful scenery in the world, beaches you won't believe, cultured cities and we voted against Brexit in our hundreds of thousands. Houses are affordable (except Edinburgh!) there's successful industry and social life for everyone. If you come to Glasgow, check, I'll even show you around

Ha,ha. Don't go to Scotland if you are English. We lasted for17 years, the anti English sentiment go worse and worse. I was asked who gave me a fucking passport, I was told that my lot were responsible for the Highland clearances. There were countless more insults I'm Welsh but most Scots were unable to recognise a Welsh accent. We left and I was delighted

Yes. I moved to the midlands too, to be with a partner, and hated it.

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.

Where I lived felt like a square mile prison exercise yard, although it was very fashionable.

I got so depressed I was prescribed ADs but left & came home instead. If I’d stayed I’d be drunk or dead by now.

Some people obviously like it, but it’s not for me. Still makes me shudder.

@FullofSurprises I'm not from Ilkeston but I do know it! A very strange, depressing place where the sun never seems to shine.

I loved my holiday in Edinburgh but hated the one in Glasgow. It's the only time I have been desperate to get home.

When they told us at the airport that our flight was delayed because of strong winds and might be cancelled I burst into tears.

@FTMF30

We were renting in smethwick. Fortunately only paying for it on a month by month basis. So only a months rent lost! (We live on a boat).
In the first week:
I’m white and was told by several shop owners that they don’t serve “your sort here”. Most definitely reverse racism.
The factory on the next road left their security alarm going from dusk till dawn - every 20 minutes.
There were two murders outside our security gate.
Our neighbours decided to have a marital fight and we ended up with having a bbq, a full sized gas bottle and an ironing board thrown at our boat damaging it.
My partner had the neighbours wife throw herself on his car bonnet to try and stop him from going to work without her!
I was mugged at 10 am - they got away with a bag full of doggy doos!
Finally a plastics recovery site went up in flames and the police were out asking people to go home and close their windows - I was out walking the dogs and was asked where I lived, I told them and was told by the police that’s “as you are waterway scum it doesn’t apply to you”.
We high tailed it out of Birmingham and up the Shroppy in 8 hours and retrieved the car!! a record for us.

I’d lived in a rural area all my life. I’m used to fields & clean air

There are plenty of places in the Midlands which are fields and clean air. Even in Birmingham you can go to the Botanical Gardens, Cannon Hill Park and so on for some greenery.

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!

@Bargebill19 Wow! And there was me assuming it couldn't have been that bad. I like Birmingham but that sounds like a truly awful area. Glad you got of there and that the mugger received a nice bag of Karma!

I spent a few years near Holloway Road in the early 2000s. Hated it and never felt safe. I knew loads of people who loved the area

ExtremelyBoldSquirrels

Oh I am sorry to hear you don't like Milton Keynes - My Godson lived there. I only visited once but loved the shopping! He now lives in Towcester and he and his wife were soon involved in village life. His mum is looking at places nearby and has her eye on a certain place where she went to the market and got chatting with loads of people!

DH and I grew up in different bit of mildands which I think we liked in mnay respects didn't hate - we've both lived in nothern cities and towns and southern ones, currently loving south wales, and I lived a year in Birmigham which I loved.

Only place we live we hate living in was in midlands - there were postives and we always went over them but we never liked it there never felt like home and it was years we were there.

Those years on MN I was always being told it must be me - that I wasn't doing enough to meet poeople and fit in. Even DH found it hard - spoke to his work collegues apparently it was know as treacle town - because locals stuck togther and never left.

There were some nice people but south wale is so much friendlier and it soon felt like home.

We focused on anything positive- and there were things- and made plans to leave which took longer than we'd have liked but we got there.

Yes. When first married, bought a house in Sidcup. It was all we could afford and Sidcup itself isn't too bad but our house was in Blackfen

I love Sidcup! I dog sat there, also Lee (near Lewisham) . I liked there too. I was born n Welling, Kent but wouldn't go back there. I have heard of Blackfen and possibly have been there but as a child so have no idea.

I moved to the midlands from a beautifully located city on the east coast of Scotland (wash your mouth out @ExtremelyBoldSquirrels!)

The town where I live now is dull, boring, suffocating and wouldn't recognise culture if it smacked it in the face.

I'm still homesick after years here and need to do something about it really

jessstan2

I moved from Welling when I was ten. To Croydon! Now that was a place I really hated. It had great parks, a theatre and lovely market, but Christ the people... There was a huge council estate at the top of our road and the people all had chips on their shoulders.God knows why. They all went to Spain for holiday, had colour tvs years before we did and went to the pub every night. We certainly cold not afford to.

I did nt realise about the National Front HQ in Welling until years afterwards.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath I had never heard of Treacle Town, but the rest of your comments felt familiar, so I Googled it. I live very close to where you used to live! It really isn't just you. It's awful here and I cannot wait to leave.

@Singalonggong

Another vote for the villages near Milton Keynes. MK is soulless as they come and the endless roundabouts are just odd. I had my first in a village near there and the neighbors couldn't have been less friendly. Parents all tutored their kids for the 11+ but no one would admit it. The secondary modern was bloody dire and rough. The fully grammar county leads to an unpleasant atmosphere in my opinion.

I tried moving out of MK itself to a surrounding village. It was worse in many ways. Hostile, even more than just unfriendly. It really was not the place for me at all. I’m certain that loads of the people who’ve lived there years would describe it completely differently though.

@Deathraystare As I say, it’s often very personal what you like. Milton Keynes was my idea of hell. Just absolutely not for me. And it was impossible to make friends (DS found the same thing at school as both my (then) partner and I did in any arena we tried).

I guess it’s a good think that we all like different things.

@DerbyshireGirly I bet you live somewhere like Repton or Melbourne Parts of South Derbyshire are indeed glorious!

Haha @0blio. You’re lovely well situated city is my dismal hellhole I’d be happy never to see again. 😂 It is often sunny though. That didn’t make up for anything in my experience though.

I’m glad you like it there though.

I moved to a lovely village and felt welcome everywhere but the road I lived in. It had families who'd lived there for generations (and some houses were multigenerational) and I always felt like I was being watched from behind curtains. A couple of neighbours were aggressive and unwelcoming while others treated me with suspicion at first. My immediate neighbours were lovely, but it got to the point that I didn't like to leave the house and so I decided to sell up. It was a great house but I have no regrets and the sense of relief when I handed the keys to the estate agent on moving day was just wonderful. In future I will be much more careful about gauging the feel of a road/area before moving there.

@StoneColdBitch - hope you get out soon.

It should have been a good to okay place to live - and there were some lovely people mostly blow ins like us or locals who'd lived away for a bit and come back and some good amenities but we were somehow never welcome.

Within a couple of weeks of moving we felt at home .

@StoneColdBitch we may find respite in each other

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBaththats how I got suckered too

ExtremelyBoldSquirrels

Oh sure I wasn't arguing! Before I went there I would have thought so too about Milton Keynes and you would have noticed I only went for the day.

I met a lady from summer school when we were in Oxford (city not the uni!) and she came from MK and loved it.

I am just very glad that my Godson and his missus have found somewhere nice to move to and has settled in and got friends there now.

I am a I have lived i London for decades. It suits me. I don't drive but can get buses. I have friends near Southampton but the buses aren't gret and you really need a car so I would not live there (unless I also had a London bolt hole!)

thisfucker I'm so sorry you experienced this, it's certainly not the experience of my English friends or my father who lived here for nigh on 60 years.

You can't tar an entire country with the same brush- we're all anti- English because that's just not right at all. I find it strange in 17 years that you only found racist Scots.

lynsey why was your trip so unenjoyable? Everyone I have ever invited to Glasgow completely raves about it- it is the best city to live and work in for all ages, you can get to mountains and beaches within an hour easily. I'm intrigued why you were so upset?

Is 'Treacle Town' Nuneaton?