If you could live anywhere in the uk, where would you choose ?

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I think I fancy somewhere coastal with a nice sandy beach
cant move for a few years tho

i think id go for somewhere in Dorset or Cornwall

or maybe Filey Yorkshire
although bit cold up there
but would get a lot more more house for your money

London, we live there now but given the choice we'd be more central than we are now. Maybe Marylebone, Bloomsbury or Clerkenwell.

Where I live - the New Forest. We chose to move here a few years ago, and love it.

Aberdeenshire
Complete fantasy..North Yorkshire.

Somewhere on the North Yorkshire coast. Or maybe as far up as Saltburn.

Or somewhere near a forest.

I currently live on edge of a moorland- in need dramatic landscapes for my melodramatic soul 😂 I find pathetic fallacy therapeutic

I wanted to move away from the city and I soon realised the quality of life is much better here . Schools are brilliant as they are all small and student staff ratio is brilliant ( my child primary school has 8 members of staff to 24 children and the nursery 4 to 15 kids , the school days are full with activities most schools can’t do . GP surgeries are by no means perfect but way better than down there , appointments the same day , free prescriptions . Not constantly having to worry about saving for uni .
Plus and above all it’s so pretty I mean I actually have to look to find a ugly place , I have the beach 10 m away , but surrounded by lochs and streams and green .
People are seriously good down to earth up here and I love that.

Downsides and only because I choose to live super rural I have to drive everywhere but that was a personal choice as I wanted a big home to have chickens and geese and lots of room . Plus heating costs are higher in winter .

Are there places other than London where realistically you can live well without a car? I’d love to hear about them.

Edited to add - children are adults so this would just be me!

As for the question…Eaton Square, Hampstead, somewhere on the coast in Cornwall, maybe Liverpool!

My two favourite places in the UK are the Cotswolds and the Isle Of Purbeck.

I already live in one and visit the other frequently but if I were to move I would end up visiting the other again so I may as well stay where I am.

Whitstable. Lovely vibe, lots going on, beach, fantastic High Street full of independent shops.

Born & raised in North Yorkshire but would love to live on the coast of Devon or Dorset

I used to live in Oxford. When we moved to where we now are, I wondered whether I was making a terrible mistake but thought I could always move back. Alas not, because the house I lived in then, which was at the time comparable in price to the house I moved to, is now worth massively more than houses here, so I shall never be able to afford move back. It makes me very sad.

Newcastle.

Yep. I live in the Yorkshire Dales national park. No car. Good train and bus links. Commute to London 1-2x per week on the train. 4 hours each way, but I work on the way down and nap/ catch up on life admin etc on the way back up. Have probably 3-4 occasions a year when I wish I drove- and then I book a taxi. 🤷‍♀️

Marylebone.

Little Venice.

Northumberland

Probably not far from where I am now where I have several close family members within 15 miles in various directions. Parents are gone now, but being close enough to spend the last years with them was a privilege. Now love spending time with my nieces and nephews and my great nieces and nephews.

I am not a city girl at all. A picturesque coastal location would be lovely, but all my family would need to be moved with me!

Jersey

We live within the National Park and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Even though it rains all the time!

London, Zone 1.

Good luck finding a nice bit now.
Tom Cruise is moving out of his £35million Mayfair penthouse because of crime.

Yorkshire - hoping to get my house on the market by Easter 🙂

Do the Channel Islands count? I would have loved to live on Sark years back - not so sure now since the Barclay brothers era. Or maybe the Scilly Isles.
I was a child in South Devon, a teenager in Bournemouth and now live in Purbeck. Not complaining about holidaymakers - they provide much of the local income - but the DFLs and second homers are a pain. Push prices up and quality of service down of everything for everyone.
I think for a change I'd like to live in one of the pretty villages around Saddleworth Moor - handy for Manchester - and it would give me a chance to see much more of the north than I have had time to explore. Damn sight cheaper than here, too.

In the town in North Yorkshire where I was raised, it is now jam-packed with southerners & Londoners who’ve sold up and moved here. No idea if there’s been a kind of marketing campaign or something but there’s now more southern accents round here than native ones. Even every teacher (inc. the head) in DD’s school is from either London, Hampshire, Kent or Essex! So much so that the local accent is beginning to be a sort of hybrid between loud southerners and the northern pronunciations (bath instead of barrrrth etc). It’s quite funny really. DD now says plarrrrster and demarrrnd 😌

Felpham, West Sussex

Cambridge. I'm not clever but it might rub off on me.