What place did you hate living in? And which did you love?

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Have you ever lived in a place you just couldn't get along with?

For me it was Seattle in the 90s. Beautiful city with loads to do, good job, but when my then-partner and I moved there we could just not get comfortable. Lots of very cool people, so hard to make friends. More of a "scene" than a community. We had a party with RSVPs and no one showed up. That sort of thing. Never happened before or since.

Conversely a small village in Cheshire was the warmest and most genuinely welcoming community I ever lived in. I felt at home from the day I arrived.

I didn't like Manchester but was very happy in Liverpool. Even though I love Manchester. It was just too big for me to live in. There are others but they'd be too outing!

Loved Melbourne. Absolutely perfect.

Loved Liverpool as a city but not the shitty student digs on Smithdown Road, omg the grime and I'm from an old textile town in the North.

Loved Winchester felt very safe and was very family friendly, Hated living in Germany felt very out of place despite trying many times to speak German they always answered me in English however I loved living on the German Army camp so much community and ana amazing place to bring up kids but it was like a bubble so not true to the country we lived in like a mini uk town in Germany

Love Madrid, didn't hate but I don't love living in Glasgow (where I'm from).

Nice that it's getting more love further up thread!

Hated Dubai. Love living in SW London.

Love Brighton and Glasgow.

Don’t hate my London commuter belt hometown but I’m ambivalent to it!

Adrift - I really didn't like Montreal during an extended stay there and wouldn't have liked to have moved there properly at all.

@ProfFloss I'm intrigued by your comment as I've heard from some people Stokies are very friendly.

Loved Wokingham
Loved my house in Bolton but really disliked the town

@Mummysgonetobed

Hated Bristol, awful, unfriendly place. Haven’t really loved anywhere yet

Yup. Brizzle, the unfriendliest place I've ever lived. Hated it. Best: Manchester & where I live now which is a secret.

Hated Manchester, parts of Liverpool and love Edinburgh

Absolutely hated a very small village in South Wales.
Everyone was related and they loved to point out you would never be accepted if you weren't born there. Considering the small mindedness I took that as a compliment.
Happy where I am now

Can't mention the place name as they will probably start building a wicker man

Hated Perth WA.
Love Norfolk. I don’t actually live in Norfolk, I have a holiday home there.
Weirdly, both are in the middle of nowhere and have a slightly behind the times feel

Gloucester. Absolutely loathed the place.

I’ve moved around a lot and some places have been better than others. I prefer the countryside to cities.

@crazycrofter you're a stronger person than I am, I didn't even last 1 year!

@Autumn101

18 months living in Devon, never again. Beautiful for a holiday though

I've lived all over the world and Devon was the worst 18 months of my life, I never have issues socialising and making friends usually buy I was utterly miserable.

**but

Where were you in Devon, MrsPellegrino?

Hated Edinburgh, love London, didn’t mind Brighton

hated north wales, loved London. Now in West Yorkshire and love it.

I've lived all over the world..

Hated:

Hong Kong - stinks and possibly the rudest people on Earth
London - such a fucking faff getting anywhere
Liverpool - had to visit the Dental Hospital every month for 4 years.

Loved:

Kathmandu
Rockhampton - even though I lost half my hearing through a rare tropical ear infection
Babinda
Dacca (as the spelling then was) and Ishurdi, Bangladesh - even though that was possibly the 3 most stressful years of a very fraught childhood, I still have fond memories. Being totally cut off from the rest of the world was an unique experience (and one which I wish I was having right now, tbh).

@AdoptedBumpkin

Where were you in Devon, MrsPellegrino?

Just outside Exeter

Love Stoke on Trent - especially the south with lots of green space and the people are so friendly.
(Also loved the Lake District for the scenery).
Not that keen on Liverpool.

Oh gosh.... I've lived in a fair few places due to previous career. Where to start?

Hate:
Crawley (shudder. Devoid of personality, grey, miserable)
Horsham (very unfriendly and pretentious)
Wilmslow (see Horsham)

Loved:
Cambridge (I was young, it was vibrant and exciting)
Warrington (great place to bring kids up, loved how close it was to Manchester, Liverpool and North Wales)
Port St Mary - IOM (so sedate and just perfect for that specific time of my life)

Really like where I live now, it's in Lancashire and the moors are 10 mins in one direction but easy access to bigger towns 10 mins the other way. Best of both worlds.

Hate houston, loved Montreal and Norway. It’s the people that made it