What road do you live on and how do you like it?

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Inspired by another thread. I live down a single track lane in a cluster of about 15 houses at the edge of the village.
I love it. I like the feeling of belonging and being known and recognised.

Love this thread! I want to live in everyone else's houses! So I live in a gated private estate (pretty big though, about 80 houses), on the edge of town. It's very quiet, most people are friendly and lots of us have dogs - who all love each other! It's a bit too quiet for me and I hope to move closer to town in a couple of years.

I live mid terrace on a long residential street in SW London. My neighbours are nice without being intrusive. There's a landscaped park at one end near an 'excellent' primary. 15 min to train/tube and shops.
It's lively -rarely do I walk outside my front door that someone isn't walking by. Of course there's a stream of kids going to school in the mornings. There are occasional street parties and someone has organised planting up flowers around the trees in the street. We have a street WhatsApp group.
It's a good street. Wish it was more central and shops closer, but can't afford that.

I live in a small Edwardian terrace in a smallish town in Cornwall. We're 5 minutes walk from the shops, train station etc and 10 minutes walk from country roads, and I can see the sea from my bedroom window. It's also a fairly busy road, bit of a rat run and a nightmare for parking. But overall I feel very lucky!

Detached period house on a quiet tree-lined street of similar houses. Leafy bit of London known for its green space and good schools. A few minutes from restaurants, shops, station, river and park. I can walk or cycle to work. Very few downsides, apart from the size of the mortgage and the usual older house issues (hard to heat and needs a lot of maintenance).

Victorian London terrace here, though not in a v glam area, zone 3. The street is friendly and it's not a through road so fairly quiet. Tiny gardens though!

Semi detached bungalow on an estate.
Sitting outside at 10.45pm and can't hear a thing.
Neighbours are friendly but not in each others pockets.

Maisonette in a not great area. My neighbours are either really nice or terrible (they drive all over my flowers and throw rubbish in my hedges). But I love my home and love my garden. Bought it because it was 3 bedrooms with a drive and garden only a bit more than my one bedroom flat in a good area that my family outgrew

@Abracadabra12345 😅😅 my parents still live there and the whole road gives me the heebie jeebies. God forbid you dont take your bins in 45 seconds after they've been collected, you may get shunned..

Live in a terraced house in a cul de sac in an estate in a large town in the centre of Ireland. Absolutely love my house. Perfect size for me & my 2 kids. Excellent insulation so very little noise from neighbours.
Most neighbours are quiet and friendly & don't have any trouble.
Lovely big green out front that local kids play on which is lovely to see. Mine used to too when they were little.
I have a car but I can walk to Tesco in 5 mins, train station & town centre in 15 mins, my parents house in 10 mins, so I love the convenience of that. Especially when the kids were starting to go places with their friends since it meant I wasn't a taxi driver constantly.
My back garden backs onto empty council land & then an unused farm. There are huge trees that I can hear blowing around at night. It sounds like the sea & is very relaxing.
The only reason I'd ever move from here is if the neighbours became unbearable to be around. But 18 years in & so far so good.

In the middle of a small row of houses on a long road that leads to the town centre. We’re 20 minutes walk from it. There’s a 3 storey block of flats opposite.

The road is busy but we love our house. Neighbours are friendly.

Our semidetached house is on a small ex RAF estate, 3 miles from a village where there are two small shops, a post office and two pubs.
We’ve lived here for 29 years, it’s very quiet despite there being a mixture of families and retired people. We back onto woodland so lots of birds and wildlife.
It does mean having to drive and I often wish I could just walk into town - the nearest supermarket is 10 miles away!
We’re surrounded by farmland so it’s very peaceful.

I live in a Victorian terrace on what is classed as main road in our town. The town is quite small and not very busy though, so we don't experience much noise. My dream would be to live in a small village with land all around me.

We live on a road with constant traffic, and people going by, with houses all around us, just a 5 min walk from a market town! I bloody love it, but my husband wants to move out to the sticks. Which sucks cos I love looking out my window and seeing people! I hate how different myself and my husband are in this sense 🙄🥺

being known and recognised

That make me feel sick.

I prioritise privacy in where I live. I can't stand the thought of curtain twitching neighbours watching me coming and going. I'd feel violated.

Downsized over a year ago to a small end terraced. It has a side garden and stables next door. Open fields after the stables and countryside. It's quiet and the neighbours are lovely. So different to living in a big city which is where I'm from. I thought I'd miss the busy suburban life but I don't.

End of a private lane in a small rural village, the lane is very narrow, just about a car width. There’s 7 cottages, some including ours are thatched. The end of the lane goes through the middle of our garden which is a bit unusual. It’s very quiet and quirky and beautiful. There are 4 kids that can all play together on the lane as there’s no traffic, just the cars for the 2 houses that have drives. The others have parking at the end of the lane by some garages.

Down a private drive for 3 houses off a small cul de sac on a 1990's housing estate at the edge of a city. We have a row of trees separating us from the rest of the road, and the cul de sac is separate from the rest of the estate. We have a field next to and behind us.

On paper it's not a great area, with one of the biggest crime rates in the city, but that is mainly down to thefts from cars and of motorbikes in the wider area and our little area hasn't been troubled. We, and our neighbours, have security lights and we have wildlife cameras which also cover the drive area.

We have regular visits from badgers and foxes, and the most amazing number of different birds. It is really quiet here as well, if you discount our neighbour's children in the garden. All I can hear at the moment is a squirrel shouting in the trees and birds. I love it.

We live on a road leading out of the village. Everyone knows everyone else. My late neighbour over the road was my ds2 adopted Grandma.. I love the feeling of community... ♥ ♥

I live in a 1930s semi on a boring road on the outskirts of London, we have been here 38 years. Really should move and downsize but we CBA.

Victorian terraced house on a side street off a very busy high street in London zone 2. It's a popular place for tourists to visit and close enough to Soho to walk in 40 mins. The road is fairly quiet for traffic as the council have put traffic restrictions in place, but it's very busy for foot traffic as it's a route between 2 popular areas of town. The road is half filled with commercial properties like restaurants and bars, a theatre, fitness studio, and half residential (terraced houses plus a large apartment building). DH can cycle to work in 10 mins and DC's private school is 5 mins walk. We can't see much greenery from our windows but we can walk to a huge 400 acre park in 10 mins. On bonfire night we can see fireworks from the upstairs windows.

I like it, I like that it's away from the bustle of the high street yet 4 mins walk from amenities and the tube. I like that it has interesting places on the street rather than being purely residential. If anyone asks me where I live and I tell them the name of the road, everyone recognises it.

The houses are a mix of owner occupied like ours and quite a few that are split into flats and rented. We only know the neighbours vaguely mainly because of parcels and seeing/hearing them in their garden. But there's no real community and I like the anonymity. I would prefer a quieter street for pedestrians though as there are always people passing by when I leave the house and they stare into our hall when I open the door! Often takes a bit of time to get out as I have a toddler with me so I'd rather they didn't gawk! Sometimes I catch interesting snippets of conversations from passers by though (we have shutters on our window and they have no idea we are there and can hear them).

Outskirts of town on a road that's parallel to a main route through. Its busy during school runs, but quiet after that. Gets busier the closer to town you get.
I can walk to the woods from home, or to the shops, both within 30 minutes.
Houses along my road are a mix of detached and semi detached and there's also some warden-controlled retirement apartments.
Also close to a school.
It's a very friendly area with easy access to more open countryside. If shopping is your thing, you can get to a big shopping centre within 40 minutes, or get a train into London in a similar time frame.

This is a nice thread. I grew up on a large and busy main road next door to a pub so I only ever knew noise! My first little flat in my teens and twenties was right next to the railway line only slightly further up from that same main road.

When we had kids we moved to a village on the outskirts of the biggish market town, a lovely little 2 and a half bedroom semi on a cul-de-sac. It was very weird having neighbours that spoke to you.

I now live in a house that’s on a small offshoot of a cul-de-sac. We share a longish private drive with another house so it’s just the two of us on the edge of the woods. It’s perfect. Nobody can see us from the street!

I live in a seaside town on a suburban High Street which can be busy on weekdays, but often quite quiet. In the gardens at the back I don't notice traffic noise and it's leafy and pleasant. Plenty of walks in green spaces around here, at the beach, along the river, fields, parks, bridleways, cycle paths. No parking issues along the road at all, we all have drives.

As I'm older it's just ideal for all the amenities and shops etc within walking distance and a hospital. I like a mix of people of all ages walking past my place so I don't feel isolated. Neighbours are no trouble, quiet and civil but we keep to ourselves which is how I like it.

I like being anonymous and private. It's too claustrophobic for me to be in a cul de sac or small cluster in a dead end with people watching you [and visitors] go in and out knowing your business - or guessing they do or wanting to. Done that one, not for me.

I would hate having to get in the car for every thing too, it would drive me mad.

I live on a quiet road in a quiet estate of 5 roads surrounded by forest on 3 sides and the main road on the 4th side (but it is separated from the estate by a 3 metre thick 'lane' of trees and bushes, then a wide footpath, then a grassy ditch about 2 metres wide so not too close to the main road really).

Its the kind of road where everyone nods or smiles or says hello as you go past. I have lovely neighbours on both sides and across the road, especially the ones across the road who are always happy to look after DS for me if I need help at short notice.

Downsides are that its a gravel road which is not nice to bike on unless its recently rained, and there's always pot holes except for the brief period in the spring when they flatten it out nicely after the winter damage. Also there's no pavement.
Edit: Big upside is that the lake is just a couple minutes walk away, with a beach a minute further.