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

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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.

@OxenoftheSun According to Google! I've never heard the term myself, but I've only been in the area for a few years.

Well clearly the urban Midlands sucks but Stratford upon Avon is lovely. Been here 15yrs and going nowhere.

@Puffalicious it was a few things. Firstly the weather was atrocious - really strong winds and torrential rain for 3 of the 4 days we were there. I do realise that can't be helped but it made Glasgow look so dreary, drab and depressing.

Secondly we didn't find the people particularly friendly or helpful. We got in a taxi at the rail station and asked for the name of the street we were staying in. The driver said "do you speak English". We are both London born!

So I showed him the piece of paper with the address printed on it. He said he had never heard of it. I pointed to the info on the paper which said it was by Yorkhill Hospital. He then said he had never heard of that! He had to speak on his radio to get directions.

Twice more we got cabs and had problems. One driver said we would have to direct him as he didn't know the way and it was only a journey of a couple of miles. When we said we didn't know the way as we were visitors he was not happy.

London taxi drivers have never said they don't know where somewhere is in London.

Both me and DH had heard of Yorkhill Hospital so not impressed that a taxi driver hadn't.

We got hassled by a couple of people outside a supermarket (they looked like druggies). Oh and when we wanted to go to a Rennie Mackintosh place on a Sunday we were amazed to find out the buses did not run on a Sunday

Norwich is lovely, but it's at the end of the line. I have family in the Golden Triangle, and it's like a Posy Simmons cartoon.

Yes, the area I live in. What makes it bearable is I can reach places I like, relative.y easily. I can drive into Essex, which has some lovely parts, and the sea is less than an hour away.
But I'd rather live up North

@Bluemooninmyeyes1
Ooh where was that?

I thought smethwick was London

What's voting to Leave got to do with places you have lived and haven't liked? People who voted out are no different than those who voted to stay! Just a difference of opinion. So much hate these days!!

I have never met such peculiar ,rude , narrow minded , unadventurous and unfriendly people in all my days.

I know. It really is unfathomable.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath
Love South Wales

@Eeeeeeeok and @Dowser I live in a small town on the outskirts of Durham. I grew up here and it’s always had a reputation for being a bit ‘rough’ but like everywhere there’s good and bad parts. I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else though, as much as I criticise the place it’s still home.

@stonecoldbitch It sounds like you're near Swad and Burton? My school used to be okay (a long time ago now 🙈) but I think most of the local ones are in special measures now. It's very sad to see how badly provided the local kids are.

I left for uni and have never lived there since and can completely see why you're struggling. Of course there are brilliant people there, but unless you can get to know them personally (and to be honest they will probably never stick to their own close knit circles of like minded people) then you are stuck with the small-minded, xenophobic majority

Have you considered moving to Lichfield?

lynsey I'm so sorry to hear about your experience. When it rains it bloody rains here, so I know how you'll have felt. It is so wonderful when the weather is good, or at least dry as even when nippy it's a great city to walk around.

That's completely strange about the cab drivers! The only thing I can think of is private hires/ Ubers are sometimes not native Glaswegians. That is not a representation of how welcoming we are.

It's also weird as buses are very regular here on a Sunday- perhaps that one route isn't popular or something. Strange.

If you fancy giving us another go I promise there's much to celebrate.

@ButterboxSpoon I'm about half an hour from Lichfield. I'll PM you. To be honest, if we're going to all the trouble of moving, I'd rather get out of here altogether...

God its awful when that happens. Moved as a child from the fabulous Gower to really boring suburban bit of Portsmouth. Couldn't wait to get out then one year out of university DH got a job in same awful bit of town and insisted (With lots of additional pressure from DM) that we buy a house there. I ended up commuting daily to London to get out of it. Then bought a flat in town for the week and eventually managed to get him here too.

I'd happily move back to coastal Wales or stay in London but rows of 1930s suburbia with few shops or cafes etc is not for me (wherever it is).

@Puffalicious it was about 8 years ago and, at the time, we vowed we would never go back. We likely will though as I love Rennie Mackintosh and we didn't get time to go to all of the places with his work.

I couldn't believe the taxi drivers. We are used to London taxi drivers who are, on the whole, great. Obviously they don't know all the streets but do know all the landmarks. Do the taxi drivers there do anything like "the knowledge" that London drivers have to do?

I was pretty offended when asked did we speak English but he obviously struggled with our London accents!

The Hackney drivers do, but private hires/ Ubers won't. That's pretty woeful and not what I'm used to. Sorry you went through that.

Next time I hope the weather's good and you can wander the West end to your heart's content. So many galleries to choose from and we really are a friendly lot.

We moved to a village (that calls itself a town... But it's definitely a village) in Wiltshire 11 years ago. I realised straight away that it was a mistake but we were priced out of London and I didn't know what to do. For various reasons I won't go into we got stuck here and haven't been able to move for a couple of years, and especially during lockdown I've realised that it's sucking the life out of me and I need to leave as soon as we can, when the thing keeping us here is no longer a factor.

It's not a shithole. There's no drug problem, crime rates are low, it's fairly friendly. But it's so desperately, mind numbingly boring. Nothing happens here. The options for going for a walk or run are either laps of the housing estates or laps of the fields with nothing to see (only so many times you can look at the same field). There is nothing to look forward to here, anything we could possibly want to go to happens outside the town. There isn't even a nice playground or a park with paths for a child to ride a bike away from traffic. There are interesting places to go within driving distance though and I live for the weekends when we can go somewhere else - anywhere else.

We are thinking about moving to Ireland (where I'm from). I thought I grew up in a small boring town there but I had NO idea.

@Iwalkinmyclothing

Yeah. Wisbech. Don't move there.

Wisbech manages to make Kings Lynn look like an attractive prospect. It's quite an achievement in shithole-ness

I have to defend the Midlands here tbh, because the areas people have mentioned, like Smethwick, and the Black Country, for example, are known to be deprived areas with high crime rates, and if you’d have done even the smallest bit of research before moving there you would have known that. There are lovely leafy suburbs of Birmingham like Moseley, Harborne, Sutton Coldfield, Bournville etc that are not dangerous or racist in the slightest, have great transport links, lots of parks/woods nearby and things going on, but you get what you pay for and they’re not cheap for a reason. The areas people are describing sound like they’re isolated villages or run down deprived towns, the whole of the Midlands is not like that.

@Elsiebear90

Bit difficult to moor a narrowboat in Sutton Coldfield- we really do need a canal! Residential moorings are like hens teeth and hellishly expensive whenever they are.
At least we didn’t have to sell our home like banksiders.

No not a deprived area.

@feline it is, as i never met the same down south and i lived there over 40 years!

Must be a Midlands thing!

Yes. We knew it was wrong within three months. Got stuck during lockdown and finally moving at the end of next month after a miserable 11 months. Can’t wait to start living again.