Has this year made you think a lot about where you live ?

[Lardlizard]

It’s certainly made me pine for the sea more !!!

Yes, I’ve found so many corners of the area I had never explored. We’ve went on some beautiful walks across the city and I loved how many independents have managed to stay open through lockdowns and how quickly a lot of our favourite places bounced back between lockdowns. There’s been a lot of community spirit here. So glad I live in London

Yes it's made me realise how utterly dull rural living can be. The first chance I get I'm moving somewhere more lively.

Yes. We’ve looked at moving twice in the last 5 years- once to a smaller, nicer town and once to the village near the sea where I grew up.

I’m glad we stayed. DS’s relationship with MIL has become very important- he’s an only child and the extra adult really helped during lockdown.

Our town has all the facilities we need. We’ve discovered more green spaces and learnt to appreciate the river more.

I've always known where we live, people think we are lucky, I've always thought "it's ok", but it's better than ok.

Also realised that actually we do have a really nice house. It's just a normal 3 bed, nothing grand, but is detached with a decent amount of garden, which was a lifesaver during the first lockdown.

Absolutely. It has made me realise how much I love living in my bit of London. It's about 30 mins from the City on the tube but has its own distinct personality.

Huge parks nearby, didn't have any problems finding what I needed even during shortages, everything on my doorstep. And lots of pretty houses to look at on my daily walks.

Pre-lockdown, I had been thinking about maybe trying to move to a different part of London for a change but think we will just stay put - though we may upgrade our place so we each have an office and an additional spare room as well.

I am grateful every day for where I live. We have worked bloody hard to get where we are and I'm so glad we did.
We have the countryside and sea right on our doorstep. We get fish straight from the fishermen
Our house is comfortable enough to avoid each other if we want which has been a God send ,.
The beaches have been packed with out of towners since March as we are only 40 minutes from London, feels odd as it's a small town but everyone rubs along
The only downside is the litter people leave on the beach

Somerset was cheap for me because I come for the south east but yes I can imagine the prices are rising too fast for locals.
Mine isn't a 2nd home or anything, I work in the local NHS. Glastonbury is really expensive, I looked at it, couldn't afford anything nice so had to move out a bit further into the country.

Yes it’s hard - we live far away abroad and I’ve been homesick for years, it’s made my homesickness worse but also grateful for where I live as we have a decently sized house and live somewhere where the weather is always decent and close to the beach which has been a godsend during the various lockdowns so now seriously thinking about the kind of place we want to be able to live in when we move home.

Although I will always always miss London and if it weren’t for introverted misophonia inflicted DH and having D.C. I’d be moving back in a heartbeat

Our what was a quiet bit of countryside was discovered during lockdown 1. People everywhere, loudly screeching and screaming kids on bikes that they have no idea where the brake pedal is. Dogs running about off lead jump up as you get in your car and leave muddy marks all over your clothes or worse, scratches down your paintwork ('Sorry, he just loves other people' is about the only apology you get), they're allowed to wander in the road where they like and go poop everywhere - swept the leaves in my front lawn yesterday and came across 5 poos, people park outside your home blocking the road (so no hope for emergency vehicles) and go for a long walk, others climb over your back fence as they can see the road and want to take a short cut back to their badly parked car (Ok only 1 family, but even so)
We unfortunately aren't in a position to move just yet due to elderly relatives, but we're planning our exit.

On the plus side we're blessed with a wonderful village shop who will get anything you could ever want in for you and a great butchers, lots of fab pubs doing great takeaways so no shortages of anything.

Here's hoping it all calms down next year and we get less people invading our quiet space.

I've started to hate it and to make escape plans

It never felt like home tbh. I was brought up in a rural idyll and this chunk of suburbia doesn't do it for me.

Next door have built a chuffing great extension and a huge block of flats has replaced the bungalows opposite. I am starting to feel hemmed in on all sides. I thought I didn't mind living in a terraced house but listening to the neighbours rowing all day in lockdown has really grated.

My kids are at secondary now and I feel less connected to the community no school runs or events. Friends have moved away. Lockdown has killed any social life we had here. When daily exercise is a walk around a housing estate who can blame the kids for not relishing it.

I wanna go back to Wales. I've told DH that as soon as the kids are finished school I am leaving.

Absolutely and I thank my lucky stars everyday we moved home to Australia from London 2 years ago.

We lived in a small house in London and I'm not sure how we would have coped! We now have a big enough house, lovely garden and covered outdoor space and are close enough to my family.

I lived with my grandparents, from the age of 14, on their Dorset farm near the sea side but property prices meant that locals could barely afford to live there despite half the houses being empty most of the year. This caused a lot of resentment and most young people moved away. My cousin runs the farm now and I visit when I can but it's sad that nobody I grew up with are still there.

It made me extremely thankful (I had always been, as we’d come to this place from an apartment) for our garden and proximity to public green spaces, and I stopped being envious of those in bigger/nicer/better located houses than ours.

I live in New Zealand. I say thanks to my lucky stars that I live here every day since March this year.

I've always appreciated the garden but it made me adore it even more.
YES I definitely pined for the sea too.