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

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Coffeetree · 08/03/2022 21:10

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.

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Mumbean12 · 09/03/2022 06:23

Loved London and Epsom

Not loving Berkshire, too cliquey.

YingMei · 09/03/2022 06:23

Hated Cambridge
Loved Singapore and Dubai

timestheyarechanging · 09/03/2022 06:30

Love India. Live in London and I need am so over it! I'd move to Goa ina heartbeat but my kids love living in London.

timestheyarechanging · 09/03/2022 06:34

Oh but I love Ramsgate and am moving there soon!

FoldedCard · 09/03/2022 06:34

@downtonupton

hate hate hated Cheltenham love London & Brighton
I hated Cheltenham! But loved Gloucester (which I moved to afterwards).

Nobody believed me - Cheltenham is definitely mainstream prettier but it was all surface. Gloucester was grittier but much nicer to live in. I'd argue that the docks are more attractive than the Regency houses in Chelt, but I suspect not many would agree Grin

I'd say Cheltenham is a French Fancy while Gloucester is a Gregg's sausage roll.

timestheyarechanging · 09/03/2022 06:39

Also hated Egypt. Only thing good about it was the 20 pairs of leather slippers I brought back.

slipperly · 09/03/2022 06:40

@Coffeencrochet and @crazycrofter I don't think anyone would argue Walsall is a good place to live - and I say that having roots there!

Lilac57 · 09/03/2022 06:43

Hated Manchester as a student in the early 00s. I don’t know if it was just the area where the student live, but it was proper grim and scared, with a real air of menace, I was almost constantly on edge. I’ve lived in other large cities in the UK for one reason or other, including London and Birmingham, and I liked living everywhere except Manchester.

Alrightqueenie · 09/03/2022 06:43

Milton Keynes. I absolutely hated it, was there for 2 yrs 10 yrs ago. Soul destroying place.

Lampface · 09/03/2022 06:44

Hated: Rutherglen, just outside Glasgow. Lived there for 9 months during the pandemic. Wouldn't go back.

Loved: where we are now (north Aberdeenshire). So peaceful and quiet, only two neighbours, less rain... bliss!

evilharpy · 09/03/2022 07:01

Hate: the small town in Wiltshire where I've been stuck and miserable for over 12 years. Leaving this year and can't wait to never set foot in it again.

Loved: London (wish we'd never left); Brighton (although was a long time ago and I was very youbg)

FlyingGeeseAgain · 09/03/2022 07:02

@sarahtalkstoomuch

Hated Edinburgh, love London, didn’t mind Brighton
What did you hate about Edinburgh?
Libertybear80 · 09/03/2022 07:07

Hated living in a small town in the Lake District. Love live in suburban Yorkshire city.

JustJam4Tea · 09/03/2022 07:07

Croydon, depressing, grey, dirty, so little green….loved the ease of access to London but that was it.

Loved the Isle of Man….just an easy place to live…and good access to London!

Saffrondoormouse · 09/03/2022 07:08

Currently living in Barnet and hate it: find it dull and suburban with no soul! Loved living in Central London.

Snoken · 09/03/2022 07:11

Grew to hate Paris, lived there for too long and had too many scary experiences with men.

Loved Stockholm, so I am going back there.

Lookingforatimeslip · 09/03/2022 07:14

Dislike where we live now: small market town in Essex. Loved: Leeds and would love to move back

GeodesicDome · 09/03/2022 07:15

I love Devon, but that's probably because 'friendly people ' isn't on my list of requirements. (Although my neighbours are a bit too friendly, being incomers.)

FlyingGeeseAgain · 09/03/2022 07:27

@GeodesicDome

I love Devon, but that's probably because 'friendly people ' isn't on my list of requirements. (Although my neighbours are a bit too friendly, being incomers.)
What a strange thing to say.
Justanotherobserver · 09/03/2022 07:29

Hated:
Taiwan
Birmingham
Wolverhampton

Love:
Amsterdam
West Oxfordshire

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Coffeetree · 09/03/2022 08:49

Oh, I just thought of another place I hate. The Lake District! Which surprises me because I love the phenomenal English countryside, especially in the North. I keep giving it a chance but Keswick etc is overrun with thick middle class gluten-intolerant walkers with oversized cars and expensive walking gear and badly trained dogs. Shudder.

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Coffeetree · 09/03/2022 08:51

RE above, I mean thick as in clueless, not "thicc".

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stuntbubbles · 09/03/2022 08:51

London. Still stuck here and longing to move back to Brighton. (Which is my compromise city with DP as I’d much prefer either Rye, or being stuck up a muddy track somewhere in the balls end of nowhere.)

twosticksandanapple · 09/03/2022 08:56

Hated Edinburgh - so unfriendly (maybe because I am English) and really disliked the brewery smell and tenements
Loved Cambridge - but was a student there so probably a different experience to a permanent resident

prettyteapotsplease · 09/03/2022 09:11

Loved Exmouth, Devon, less keen on St Albans.

Like Nottingham, especially Chilwell and Beeston.