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What do you like and not like about where you live?

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ReUseRepeat · 23/04/2023 21:01

Sometimes I feel DH is very ungrateful about where we live (he's a Londoner desperate to live there but we can't afford it 🤷🏽‍♀️)

Therefore I'm often thinking about where we live and analysing it more than most people probably do.

Can you make something you like and something you don't like about where you live?

I like the fact we have lots of nature on our doorstep, and don't like that we can't walk to a town.

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HerculesMulligan · 23/04/2023 21:04

I might not help you here - I live in outer London, love it, and would move into Zone 1 tomorrow if I didn't have kids! We're in SW London, so have great access to Richmond and Bushy Parks. Local schools are good, lots of kids the same age as ours, our neighbours are lovely, and I can get into central London quickly.

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ReUseRepeat · 23/04/2023 21:05

Oh I love Richmond you're very lucky to live near there!

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beguilingeyes · 23/04/2023 21:14

Another adopted Londoner here. We live in Zone 3 and I love that I don't have to drive everywhere (or indeed anywhere). I'm on the edge of Epping Forest and can be in Oxford Circus in half an hour. Every seems to be open all the time now and if it's not I can get it delivered.
I too would be in Zone 1.if I could afford it. One of those mansion flats near the Albert Hall hopefully.
I've been racking my brain to try to think of something I don't like. I grew up in rural Somerset and couldn't wait to get out.
The centre gets crazy busy in the summer and too many people around but I'm clutching there.

HerculesMulligan · 23/04/2023 21:16

"I too would be in Zone 1.if I could afford it. One of those mansion flats near the Albert Hall hopefully." We could be neighbours, @beguilingeyes! One day...

Grimeduster · 23/04/2023 21:21

Love the proximity to moors, countryside, beaches, farms, and forests. Hate that the town is filled with addicts, racists, anti social behaviour, and people with poor mental health that are not adequately supported.

DidyouNO · 23/04/2023 21:27

I love where we live. Scotland. Coastal, great villages, beautiful scenery, wonderful people, rich in nature and historic building. Perfection

Potholes. Everywhere!!
Scottish education system.

NuffSaidSam · 23/04/2023 21:28

I also live in London, zone 3.

I love:

That I don't need to drive

That there is so much to do, never ever get FOMO, it's all here. Beach and countryside are not far away and easily accessible thanks to the trains.

That it's easier to find your people, because there are so many different types of people here.

I hate:

That it's so expensive. I'm a born and bred Londoner and despite working hard and earning a good wage I can't afford to live comfortably in my own city.

That it can be so busy at times. Central London has too many people.

That it's so big. I hate that my friends who also live in London are an hour and a half away!

I'd move out it my job wasn't so London centric.

Slimjimtobe · 23/04/2023 21:30

I like that it’s safe, no crime, very very pretty and great access to supermarkets and schools and work. We know everyone either directly or through someone else so that’s nice and leads to us feeling safe I suppose.

We have pleasant neighbours and privacy. Massive garden and better home than we could afford nearer a city.

Being quite rural, there’s little ‘buzz’ unless your buzz is hiking and you have to drive everywhere

Job opportunities are rare

Slimjimtobe · 23/04/2023 21:30

New job opportunities is what I meant - so people stay in jobs for decades

Daffodilwoman · 23/04/2023 21:30

I love the beautiful countryside and that every house on my estate is clean and well presented.
I don’t like the drop outs in the town centre most of whom are housed in the town centre flats.

BungalowLil · 23/04/2023 21:31

I like the vibrancy, energy, multiculturalism and fighting spirit of Bristol.
I don't like the traffic or the house prices.

CC4712 · 23/04/2023 21:35

I lived between zone `1-2 for 18yrs. I loved the public transport, things going on, the variety of restaurants and corner shops with all different veg/herbs /spices.

I hated the noise as we lived on a high street. Sirens, drinks, buses etc. We used to have black soot on the window sill every day!

Recently moved 2 hrs away. I love the quiet cul-de-sac and friendly neighbours, wildlife, walking to the beach, large house/garden and having a dog

I don't like having to drive to most places and public transport is poor. Availability of certain foods is limited, or a long drive away. We aren't even rural!

orangetriangle · 23/04/2023 21:37

I like where I live a little village in Essex 40 mins to London by train. I like it's a village in it's own right with fayre xmas lights etc occurring and we have several lovely woods a windmill a museum. Has a proper sense of community
What I dont like is the traffic and the fact a great big housing estate is being built here which will make the problem worse

orangetriangle · 23/04/2023 21:38

public transport here is very good and also about 30 min drive to the beach

illiterato · 23/04/2023 21:40

sandy beach at the end of the road and amazing sunsets over the harbour

too many instagrammers taking pictures of their cars next to said harbour. Summer traffic is crazy.

ohjeesus · 23/04/2023 21:40

I love the fact i havent locked my door in 20 years (actually lost the key years ago) i love the fact i go to shops and everyone knows my name and ask how my kids are. I love how i can walk to a beach whenever i want. I hate how low paid the jobs are, i hate how im forced to speak welsh and i hate how busy the shops are in summer 😀

MissLucyLiu · 23/04/2023 21:43

N1

love: we are walking distance to east London buzz. We are big foodie and wine lover and there’s a lot of new really interesting restaurants / wine bar opening. We go out quite often to just meet friends and have a nice meal and drinks and can can home cheaply or walk home if weather is nice

don’t like: hate to admit it but the multimillion pound houses are also mixed with council blocks. Which is true everywhere in London which i don’t mind. But there’s a bit more unpredictability of some of these people in neighbourhood. There’s always people fly tipping because they don’t want to pay to get their bulk removed! It just looks absolutely awful and I don’t really understand why people feel it’s okay to just litter on the streets. These cleaners are working so hard and it is already hard to recruit people who are willing to do job the least we can do is to try our best to keep the streets clean!!

MissLucyLiu · 23/04/2023 21:43

Hate: oh and we don’t speak to most of our neighbours eek

beguilingeyes · 23/04/2023 21:47

BungalowLil · 23/04/2023 21:31

I like the vibrancy, energy, multiculturalism and fighting spirit of Bristol.
I don't like the traffic or the house prices.

I grew up ten miles from Bristol and the traffic is hideous. The town planners really messed up the City Centre IMO.
My friends who live there are moaning about the new congestion charge because the public transport is appalling too.

emmathedilemma · 23/04/2023 21:51

Like: being able to walk to work and the city centre. Beaches and hills a short drive away. Lots of green space. Good bus service. International airport and mainline railway station on the doorstep.
dislike: house prices, potholes and tourists

Bluevelvetsofa · 23/04/2023 21:57

I like the proximity to the sea and countryside.
I like that there’s a wide range of food shops within a few minutes drive.
I like the immediate area, the neighbours and the environment
I like that there is reasonable public transport and links to larger cities.

I don’t like the traffic congestion and state of the roads
I don’t like the nearest town centre, which is run down and has appalling housing and scary people.
I don’t like that the city a little further away, which is supposed to be one of the best places to live, is a wasteland of empty shops, with charity shops, coffee shops and restaurants replacing other retail outlets. Every time I go there, there’s another closure.

Borris · 23/04/2023 21:59

Like - love my village, can walk to essentials of little shop and pub. Love the proximity of beaches and farmland walks and how friendly people are

Dislike - how long it takes to drive up country to actually get anywhere. I need to add 3 hrs onto any holdiay plans minimum to reach a major airport

SwanPools2 · 23/04/2023 22:03

Like... Lots of house for the money! People are generally friendly. Lots of nice countryside for walking and not too far from the sea. Small town but with a good choice of shops and most services.

Dislike... The secondary school isn't great. There's a sizeable minority of antisocial behaving people - mostly bored teenagers. No cinema within 20 mins drive. Not a lot to "do" besides go for walks, go out to eat or shop at fairly unremarkable shops.

RandomSunday · 23/04/2023 22:04

I live in SW Wales. I love living close to so many beaches, the stunning scenery, the lovely, scenic, mountain walks that surround me. I love there the crime rate is negligible and that I have, on occasion, forgotten to lock my front door with no ill effect. I love that my DC have grown up with duo language and that their childhoods were filled with being able to explore the countryside without being, constantly, shadowed by an adult. Their freedom to explore their neighbourhood from a young age is immeasurable, as is their education, within class sizes below 20 children as Primary age schoolchildren and under 30 as secondary age children.

I hate that my DC will never be able to live within the locality that they grew up in because houses are snapped up by high earners, as second homes, and are left unoccupied for 6 months of the year. As a result the close knit community I grew up in (and my DC grew up in) is diminishing by the day.

SoftCoeur · 23/04/2023 22:06

Like: Quite sleepy/quiet, three supermarkets within easy walking distance, my mum lives a couple of streets away

Dislike: It's bloody tortuous trying to get anywhere interesting by public transport. There's little / nothing to do here and we don't drive. Going anywhere requires factoring in 2+ hours of waiting for buses / being on buses 😩

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