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.

Have you read Ian McEwan's Saturday?

Based on one resident's single day in February 2003.

I used to live in Fitzrovia, for a short while. You are right. These days I live far away from there and there are plenty of other places I would go. Blackdown Hills. Clifton. Northumberland. North Northamptonshire, perhaps.

Findhorn is gorgeous, so many people have never heard of it. It has an almost other worldly atmosphere to it.

I'd live in Cambridge or Bath. I look the beauty of both cities, love the size of the cities, but would want to have a substantial budget to live in a gorgeous historic house... I dream...

Another Yorkshire resident here 😁 I have been in Harrogate Centre for many years now and can’t see myself ever moving.

I would love to have a holiday home 30 mins away in York town centre. Preferably in one of those ancient timber framed buildings on The Shambles. Must have resident ghost!

If not for the cold, Edinburgh centre could have tempted me for a relocation. Very strong affection for the people and the city.

There’s something about Cornwall too…

Exactly where I am now, in a small seaside town on the Kent coast.

PS this thread is great for researching UK holiday destinations!

What are you interested in and what makes you feel 'refreshed'? In London you can be anyone you like and join in as much as you want or as little. It has the added benefit of great transport and world class hospitals. However, if you crave peace and quiet or long walks on the coast or countryside then London probably won't suit (although there are lots of quiet enclaves).

As we age things to think about are ease of transport, local shops and other leisure facilities close by, good health care, good neighbours. I'd think practically.

Where I am now - Shropshire.

If I had enough money, the Scilly Isles.

Thanks @fescue, that's now on my TBR list!

I’ve just come back from the Cotswolds beautiful but not somewhere I’d want to live full time.

this is perfect for me and my cats www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/151551830#/?channel=RES_BUY

North Yorkshire, somewhere with good access to York so I could hop on the train to London easily.

I also would have said Northumberland as I used to live and loved Newcastle but I don’t feel the same way about it anymore .

I live very close, and I have to say the traffic and congestion there has become awful. Getting through Stow and Moreton now is an hour in rush hour or tourist season.

Cockermouth in the Lakes. My favourite place.

Jersey is gorgeous. Yorkshire would be lovely too. Loved the Bay on itv think that was around Lancashire gorgeous too.