If you could live anywhere at all in the UK where would you choose?

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And why?

If you didn't have to factor in things like schools or family or employment, where would you go?

I can work from home, my dc have all left, I'm widowed, I have no other family - and I can feel a certain sense of recklessness creeping up on me where I want to just up sticks and move completely away! I was born and brought up in Wales (but don't know anyone in my home town any more), and currently live in the SE.

I have friends here but no one in the same situation as me, and many of them are planning to move away anyway when they retire.

Very specific but I’d adore to live inside the Tower Of London. I’d try and shack up with a Beefeater but I think DP might be a bit miffed.

If not there then I’d stay right here in Shropshire because it is perfect. Beautiful little towns and the most underrated countryside. It’s stunning and whenever I go away I breathe a little sigh of contentment when I get back within the shire.

Id live in a large town / small city where everything was in walking distance and rhere were good services, plenty going on and a Great pub within a 5 minute walk. Hang on, I already do!

Northumberland. It has the best coastline!

Isle Of Purbeck.
It is my happy place with memories stretching back to my earliest childhood.
Walking along Ballard Down, Nine Barrow Down, Perveril Point, Worth Matravers, Aglestone Rock and across to Brownsea Island.
Popped into Swanage today and I never tire of the town, out of season it comes into itself and is much quieter.
Spent all day walking, walks I have done countless times yet I never get bored.

Hampstead. In one of the mansion in billionaire row 🤣🤣 well women can dream

I already live where lots of people here have said they'd want to live, albeit I'm in a small flat not a big house.

My perfect place would be northwest Wales, but I worry about transport and hospital in older age, so Edinburgh is my ideal.

1-Benbecula -outer Hebrides
2- by the sea on the east coast anywhere, Northumberland mainly.
3-by the sea anywhere
I like the sea

Second vote for Clerkenwell here. It's perfect.

Somewhere on a clifftop on the Isle of Wight with wide and open sea views.

Battersea Power Station. I've loved that building since I was a child. <sigh>

I would stay where I am … in the Cotswolds.

It would need to be a city, I’d be bored otherwise. First choice definitely Cambridge, it’s got plenty of history and beautiful architecture but it’s a city of the future, powered by science and technology. It has a fantastic buzz about it but it’s very expensive to live there! So much green space too and lots of cows in the city centre! I keep seeing the city on tv programmes eg Ludwig… I’m sure everything used to be filmed in Oxford? Cambridge seems to be having a moment.

I love Bath and York too for the beauty and architecture, but they lack the energy and economic potential of Cambridge. I lived in Oxford many years ago and really didn’t like it- there’s no proper centre and little access to the river, ugly infrastructure ruining the city. Maybe it’s changed for the better in recent years though. I always felt it didn’t have a heart and the buildings are more hidden away. But it does have some fantastic museums- so beats Cambridge on that front!

A bungalow in Fowey with a view of the river and Polruan.

Either the Highlands or Fitzrovia. Preferably a house in both.

Anywhere that my biracial child could live peacefully without racism.

I am lucky enough to live in a small market town with a thriving community, lovely open spaces, an independent cinema, a concert hall and lots of activities all within walking distance. It's often voted as one of the most popular places to live in this area.

The downsides - there are not enough GPs and getting an appointment is very difficult, there are no NHS dentists in town, there is no station and the bus service is abysmal. And new houses are being built all the time. Nowhere is perfect, you need to decide on your priorities and then take a leap of faith.

Love where I am-North Yorkshire-lots if votes for it which is great.
Equally love North Norfolk though and wound happily live there too..

Bristol for the culture with a mobile home somewhere like Brixham that you can drive to on the weekends in an hour and a half!

Either the Lake District near Windermere (ish) or the Peak District near Bakewell or Matlock.

Similar situation - I quite fancy Scotland, nowhere in particular. I often go on Right Move and look at properties, towns etc...

Daydream about my new life while looking at Google street map!

There's a comedian we've seen who actually lives in the Tower of London!

I currently live in London and although I wasn't born here, I have lived here since I was a year old.

However, I feel a real real pull towards the Shetland islands. It is actually indescribable. I have joined local groups on Facebook and watch live cams of the northern lights. Since I was a little girl there have been interests which I had which link back to Scotland (which I didn't realise at the time).

I actually also do love city life. I have children and they are settled here, but for some reason the shetlands feel like home. I have looked so many times about how to get there, where to stay etc. It really is such an odd feeling.

Bath. Small but perfectly formed. Beautiful architecture. Bristol not far away for city vibe, trains to London in about 80 mins, countryside on your doorstep.

Isle of Arran, it’s Scotland in miniature, absolutely beautiful 🤩

@Waboofoo
Oo that's fighting talk. I'm grew up just outside Cambridge and moved straight to London when I was 18 for University and never went back. But o my days the Fitzwilliam is the best museum. Ever. I have been to those ones in Oxford and obviously the British Museum and those flashy ones in South Kensington and the Scottish national collections, but the Fitzwilliam is the best easily.
I watched Ludwig and I thought it was nice it wasn't all about that bit of Kings Parade that is always featured in all TV shows. There were lots of shots of Queens in Ludwig which I loved as a child for some reason.