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.

Shropshire for me.

Central London here too - like Marylebone Village or Regents Park or something like that.

(But not interested in living that centrally with children! With children, I currently live in a zone 2 nice neighbourhood - so you can see I’m biased to London!)

I forgot about the Fitzwilliam, was thinking about the natural history and fossil museums. Yes it is a good one, but I just love the atmosphere in the Pitt rivers and ashmoleon in Oxford!

City of London, Clerkenwell, Holborn, Bloomsbury.

Well I wrote Northumberland in my reply yesterday but I dreamt I lived in Clerkenwell last night and now I can’t shake that feeling of wanting to move back to London! (I went to University there and deeply regret moving back to Cornwall!)

This is the sort of dilemma that DP and I have.

No idea where to move to, but we've got a few years to do some weekend trips to various contenders.

I was very taken with Herefordshire when we went there. I'd like to see hills from my windows.

Our last trip was to Bath and its environs- I lived six miles outside when I was a teen and had very fond memories, but oddly I didn't care for it anymore, so that's off the list now.

I think if it was just me, and my kids were living abroad, I'd get a flat somewhere as a base, and then buy a motorhome and a dog and just travel around the whole of the UK, until I was too old and croaky to be comfortable doing that.

Central London or Mumbles.

Suffolk - beautiful, beautiful Suffolk.

Not the south. I am originally from Norfolk, so would probably choose the North Norfolk coast; Cromer, Sheringham or the Runtons. That being said, l am very happy here in the East Midlands, where l now live.

Id be greedy and have a place in Hampstead and also a beach house anywhere with sand not pebbles .

I've lived in West Yorkshire for 25 years now and can't see myself ever moving far. I might creep into North Yorkshire but that would literally be a couple of miles up the road 😁

I really love where I live, I'm grateful for that.

A cottage in The New Forest. 🐴

In the Barbican or Shoreditch in London. Will be nice to retire there.

I live in the Lakes and have no serious plans to move, I love the beauty and strong sense of place but it's also easy to get to other places with motorway and west coast mainline nearby. If I moved it would be to a coastal place - I grew up in a seaside town and love beaches.

I’m in Derbyshire and I wouldn’t live anywhere else, I’ve lived all over the place from north to south and abroad but I’m born and bred Derbyshire and the pull to come back has always been there, so now I’m back I'm never leaving, I’d love a city and a coastal bolt hole though 😀

I live in Birkdale now, and I can’t believe that I ever bothered to live anywhere else in the UK. This place is perfect (but ssh - don’t tell everyone!)

I'd stay in the West Midlands because I love it!

But if I could afford a second home
It would be Shaldon in Devon or somewhere in south wales. Sadly I can't!

I'm not from the UK and have never lived there but would live in Edinburgh or London in a flash. With lots and lots of money.

Good choice

I would be torn between:

• Edinburgh - beautiful, gothic city that I fell in love with as a student. I like rain, too, so its gloominess in winter suited me well.
• The Surrey Hills - v close to where I currently live, and perfect for a gentile, outdoorsy lifestyle in spitting distance of London and all its delights.
• Echo others that the Northumbrian coast is just gorgeous. I haven't been there for years but used to go as a child and back then it felt like a simpler, more down-to-earth place with incredible air.
• I have barely even visited Yorkshire but from everything I know about it I think I would love it there - I imagine beautiful countryside and good community.

Northumberland for me as well.

Basildon

Findhorn. It's beautiful

London where I already live but would be somewhere more central as im zone 4 so would prefer zone 1 would be nice.

Somewhere zone 1 - maybe Bankside or Coin St - where a beautiful level access flat would be created around dp's needs but there'd still be space for our 4 boys and friends to visit.