How remote do you live?

[mytreehouse]

For me I love the sea and have countryside but they are places I crave when I’ve got downtime.

I live a 10 minute drive from a major city, I walk 5 minutes and I’ve got a coffee, I love buying fresh food from the local greengrocers, having people around. Working in a fancy office building and getting lunch at a million different restaurants.

I really do love city life as my every day life - but I also know this is hell for some people.

I've always lived in Central London (Zone 1 and now Zone 2).

I love visiting the countryside and coast but there's no way I'd want to move away from all the amenities we have here.

These things matter more to me as I get older. I like the fact that I almost never need to drive (free Oyster Card at 60) and there are three hospitals within walking distance.

Zone 2 London. Not remote at all. Love living centrally and really appreciate being in the countryside or by the sea when I have a getaway.

@Fescue , you have made me realise what i pine for. A time that won't come again.

I live in a village in Cheshire, Lowton not a small remote one but a big sprawling one that is split into 3 separate areas of the village, St Lukes/ St Marys and LaneHead. It has a high school and 6 primary schools. Less than 8 miles to Wigan and Warrington, 12 miles to Bolton and I have the A580 going straight through the village to Manchester (17miles) and Liverpool (23miles) in opposite directions. It's nice to have shops, pubs, restaurants (even a McDs for the teens), post offices, outstanding schools, within walking distance. Andy Burnhams Bee network is cheap travel all over greater Manchester by bus, £2.50 all day and we're having a train station built a mile away which will be fab for travel to Mcr and Lpl.
The M6 is 4 miles away, we can be in the lake district or snowdonia in 1.5hrs.

I like the village feel but with lots of accessibility to things. I grew up in an idyllic pretty chocolate box village in North Northamptonshire but OMG it was boring for kids and teens. Other than Northampton and Milton Keynes there was nothing much else in the vicinity.

I live close to the centre of a small city, which I love. I lived in London Zone 2 for ten years and was very happy, but I have also spent an extended period living alone on an otherwise uninhabited island three miles off the mainland, which was often cut off for weeks at a time in bad weather, and only had a single functioning electrical socket on which I could charge my mobile. I loved that too.