Help me find the nicest place to live

[Poppyseeks]

I am fed up of the place that I live so I am dreaming of winning the lottery tonight and want to decide where I want to move to. Help me choose.

Critera:

• A really nice small town/large village, I like to be able to walk to some amenities so nothing isolated
• Anywhere in England
• Relatively middle class- Private school close by/ good state
• Small high street with at least one cafe, pub and ideally a couple of boutiques.
• About 30 mins from a nice town/city
• Not a typical tourist destination
• Not Manchester (too rainy) or Cornwall (too touristy)

Thanks 😊

Alresford.

Churchtown, Merseyside

Basically as wet as Manchester! There’s a reason Cheshire is full of dairy farms and that’s because all the rain makes the grass grow for the cows to eat.
you need to go east for drier weather

Brampton - it’s not far from Carlisle which has a fee paying school. Pretty. Not far from the lakes.

Thame
Amersham

I second this, ticks all of your boxes and is so nice we are planning to move there too! Be careful to move to the one in Cambridgeshire not Cardiff!

Chichester

Hungerford, Marlborough, Newbury, Winchester.

My home town of Bungay - 30mins from Norwich, gorgeous boutiques and thriving high street, off the beaten track and with coast and countryside on our doorstep.

Skipton or Harrogate.

Maybe Hexham

Can confirm: grantham definitely not nice, oakham and stamford are both lovely and tick a lot of the boxes!

People are not just people .
I'd not move to a deprived area as I think that sort of neighbourhood has a different tolerance to noise and anti social behaviour .
I live reasonably close between 2 essentially middle class villages and now more social housing has arrived the village Facebook pages are littered with negative goings on . Social cohesion is a myth .

Has anyone mentioned Pagford yet?

Wells is a good shout from a PP; lovely little city

Yeah, but you could have used Kenilworth, it’s not touristy and has plenty of private schools nearby, along with a high street surrounded by housing and pubs etc

Faversham
Sevenoaks
Battle

Richmond but j think you'd like rye x

Belper, Derbyshire

Shrewsbury is the only correct answer

Deal in Kent

Dore ( edge of Peak District, 20 mins to centre Sheffield by car.) Wonderful countryside on doorstep plus Ecclesall Woods, SSIs, Blackamoor etc within the borders of the Greenest City in country.

Village feel but caters for virtually every interest you can imagine , good schools Primary and Secondary, cafes/restaurants, easy access to Crucible, Teaching Hospitals, Dental hospital, excellent Universities, railway station so trains to Manchester ( and airport), Liverpool, East Coast ( Nottingham soon) etc.

Ivybridge - in Devon but not a tourist hotspot but close to the moors and really good beaches, couple of ok private school but ok ish state too

People ARE just people, some are nice and some are not. Are you seriously saying all middle class people are better than all working class people who live in social housing? What a snob!

FWIW I live in the most expensive part of our deprived area. In our town we have homes ranging from £1m down to £5k. Wherever you go you find deprivation, but not all of the people living in the particularly deprived neighbourhoods are the scum of the earth.

I've never been keen on the sheer snobbery we sometimes see on Mumsnet threads like this. I came from social housing but it's not where I ended up. In fact most of the people in the expensive area I lived in came from social housing and worked their way up the property ladder by sheer hard work, intelligence and grit. Don't you believe people can be upwardly mobile?

Poundbury?

Lord Hereford's Knob