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Where would you love to live if you could…

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tramtracks · 21/09/2025 09:24

If you children have left home and you haven’t any elderly parents to care for anymore where would you like to live and why.

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Happyjoe · 21/09/2025 20:18

New Zealand. Lovely people, lovely country and just, well, lovely. I have had enough of the UK now, sadly better half doesn't want to leave.

PermanentTemporary · 21/09/2025 20:41

Where I live now. Theres a reason it costs a bloody fortune to live in a ‘village’ with a view of hills and which has a short bus ride into a city, it’s a farking awesome way to live.

LindorDoubleChoc · 21/09/2025 20:44

In Bloomsbury or Fitzrovia in central London.

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DoAWheelie · 21/09/2025 10:36

Two streets over. I picked this flat just to be close to where I wanted. I love the wider area - the streets are quiet with low traffic and kids can play outside, but it's less than a 5 min walk to a bowling alley, cinema, a bunch of restraints, supermarkets, cafes etc. The town centre is a quick hop on a bus away. There are good schools nearby. A perfect representation of a 15 minute city. A train station is in walking distance and an airport is only 30 mins away.

But two streets away are massive 5-7 bedroom houses with big shady gardens and a huge communal park all the kids play on after school. I'd love to be in one of those instead of my tiny flat. First thing I buy if I ever win the lottery is a house there (and hire a housekeeper!).

This sounds great! - where is it?

viques · 21/09/2025 20:50

There’s a house I have been stalking on rightmove for the last ten or so years. It has just come back on the market, the current owners have converted the old stable block into a super swish B and B, and the main house is gorgeous too. When I first started looking at it it was on for a million, now it’s just under three, so stil in fantasy home territory, just need the lottery to come through for me. It’s in a Kent seaside town which I know well.

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tramtracks · 23/09/2025 22:33

LindorDoubleChoc · 21/09/2025 20:44

In Bloomsbury or Fitzrovia in central London.

Marylebone??

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tramtracks · 23/09/2025 22:34

PermanentTemporary · 21/09/2025 20:41

Where I live now. Theres a reason it costs a bloody fortune to live in a ‘village’ with a view of hills and which has a short bus ride into a city, it’s a farking awesome way to live.

Where where - do tell..

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gettingdarktooearly · 23/09/2025 22:45

Cyprus is easy. Good for the fish / swimming sun. Easy to drive

However London is always the place to be in the uk as the other base

growinguptobreakingdown · 23/09/2025 22:49

tramtracks · 21/09/2025 09:27

I’ll go first - I’d like to be within one hour of an airport, have a Booths or a Waitrose - preferably within walking distance. Same for a nice cinema, coffee shop independent shops. Easy to walk to an area where you can your dog off the lead safely. Friendly neighbours. A train station. Preferably northern town.

You've just described where I live except I'm not in the North. I'd still quite like to be near the sea though.

louderthan · 23/09/2025 22:51

Brixton, in south London. Little flat near Brockwell Park would suit me fine. I lived there in my 20s/early 30s and was devastated when I had to leave.

padso · 23/09/2025 22:55

Somewhere like Marylebone but by the sea

Notmymarmosets · 23/09/2025 22:57

The Barbican

Echoeingecho · 23/09/2025 22:58

Brancaster.

Toastea · 23/09/2025 22:59

Somewhere in Gwynedd, but with sufficient local shops, hospitals and public transport.

I also love Hastings and Tavistock and Edinburgh, so I think I need a campervan, really, so I can just switch between all the nice places.

InMyHealthyEra · 23/09/2025 22:59

The remote wilderness of Alaska, Canada or Russia. Multiple days drive from any town or city. 20ft snow in winter, 2*c in summer, the midnight sun and the polar night, 4 months of darkness sounds like a dream.

NapoleonsToe · 23/09/2025 23:03

Where we are now. Hills, forests, teeming with wildlife, uncrowded, undiscovered, cheap housing, very clean air, dark skies. France.

Titsywoo · 23/09/2025 23:17

Lake District. Me and DH plan to move there one day. I love it so much. We currently live just outside London.

Thehappyjam · 23/09/2025 23:20

DoAWheelie · 21/09/2025 10:36

Two streets over. I picked this flat just to be close to where I wanted. I love the wider area - the streets are quiet with low traffic and kids can play outside, but it's less than a 5 min walk to a bowling alley, cinema, a bunch of restraints, supermarkets, cafes etc. The town centre is a quick hop on a bus away. There are good schools nearby. A perfect representation of a 15 minute city. A train station is in walking distance and an airport is only 30 mins away.

But two streets away are massive 5-7 bedroom houses with big shady gardens and a huge communal park all the kids play on after school. I'd love to be in one of those instead of my tiny flat. First thing I buy if I ever win the lottery is a house there (and hire a housekeeper!).

Can I ask what city this is OP? As I’m very interested in the idea of a 15 minute city with everything accessible.

AndSheDid · 23/09/2025 23:29

louderthan · 23/09/2025 22:51

Brixton, in south London. Little flat near Brockwell Park would suit me fine. I lived there in my 20s/early 30s and was devastated when I had to leave.

We lived just at the Brockwell Park end of Rosendale Road in the early 2000s, pre-gentrification, but when DH was mugged at knifepoint outside our front door, it put a bit of a dampener on things.

Amiable · 24/09/2025 00:25

Longhoughton

SinisterBumFacedCat · 24/09/2025 00:31

Uk - Deal/Hythe/Whitstable on the Kent coast, I love the light.
abroad - Sydney Australia, ideally Watsons Bay

LoserWinner · 24/09/2025 00:48

I’m happy in my flat-share in London, but I’d sell my soul for a flat in the Barbican.

Foolsgold74 · 24/09/2025 00:56

tramtracks · 21/09/2025 09:27

I’ll go first - I’d like to be within one hour of an airport, have a Booths or a Waitrose - preferably within walking distance. Same for a nice cinema, coffee shop independent shops. Easy to walk to an area where you can your dog off the lead safely. Friendly neighbours. A train station. Preferably northern town.

Knutsford ticks every box.

Ruthietuthie · 24/09/2025 01:01

Either Cambridge, Bath, or Harrogate.
Or somewhere like Utrecht in the Netherlands.

mustytrusty · 24/09/2025 01:20

Clerkenwell.