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What would your ideal lifestyle be?

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WilburIsSomePig · 27/12/2016 16:37

I'm generally pretty happy with my lot but sometimes I let my mind wander to a different life.

Maybe I would live in a fishing village on a little Greek island, making wine, eating wonderful food and speaking fluent Greek to my many friends. My DC's would work alongside me when they are old enough and our days would be happy, long and sunny.

Oh and I'd be married to Hugh Jackman who would adore me. Obviously.

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Xmasbloat · 27/12/2016 18:00

Lots of travel; Europe and NYC while over in the UK visiting people, staying at our hoilday place not far from Heathrow airport. A harbourside mansion in Australia as our main residence with lots of travel around Asia and Los Angeles. A craft room/art studio and huge kitchen to be creative. Self-employed with my own design brand. DH self-employed with a successful company that has people running it for him, while we travel!! Lots of animals and a live in housekeeper to look after them while we are away. Lots of cooking courses, ceramic making, photography. Workshops. Going to lots of musicals, weekly cinema, concerts. Lots of experinces and events!

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WilburIsSomePig · 27/12/2016 18:01

You have stolen my fantasy life Wilburls! I might swap Hugh Jackman for someone else (maybe Simon Baker?) But otherwise it's spot on. I just have to decide where in Greece to live!

Great minds and all that Louise 😊 I forgot to mention the animals, there would be lots of animals around me too.

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limon · 27/12/2016 18:01

Sahp with enough money and a large house in my home town.

MrsCharlieD · 27/12/2016 18:03

I'd have a 5 bed detached farmhouse somewhere semi rural with beautiful reclaimed oak flooring, a powder blue aga and a wood burner in the lounge. It would be the most stylish yet welcoming house ever and I'd had a roll top bath in my en suite over looking our field and stables. I'd have a walk in wardrobe full of designer handbags and shoes and neither me or dh would work and ds would be well settled in the village school and have lots of friends. We'd also be expecting dc2 and I'd have lost all baby weight from ds and not put it back on.

ginorwine · 27/12/2016 18:11

I'd have a house on the Yorkshire coast . Dh would be around sometimes but not others so o could have solitude .
I'd have several dogs and cobs and hack out on the beaches .
We wd have cash to go on impromptu adventures to and Thro Europe as well as random tours of Britain . Oh and wine ! ( in an ideal world it wdnt be bad for you ) and endless cheeses !

CaptainCallisto · 27/12/2016 18:17

I'd live in a house with a library, with those big wheelie ladders, and finally have enough to space to see and organise my books. It would also have a cosy reading nook, a 'man cave' for DH so I don't have to listen to him chunter at his computer, and I'd have a craft room with a long-arm quilter.

Also we would have someone in to do the housework!

Palomb · 27/12/2016 18:18

Victorian walled garden. Glass houses. Log burners. Hard work but no actual work! Also a version of my dh who was a bit more skilled and motivated in the DIY area. Loads of money.

The internet on mobile devices would not exist. I love them but honest to god I believe they've made all our lives and especially our relationships worse.

pieceofpurplesky · 27/12/2016 19:40

A small coastal town in the med - Spain/Italy/Greece. One with winding streets, deep red flowers and tiny cafes serving fresh fish. I would live on the outskirts in a large stone house with billowing curtains and steps to my own private beach. My son would go to the local school and spend his spare time in the fresh air (curing his anxiety and his constant chest infections).
I would write the books that currently live jumbled inside my head. My parents would live with me and live for many more years.
I may even find a handsome, bearded local for those warm summer nights!

thewookieswife · 27/12/2016 19:56

Oh dear - made me realise I'd like a little cottage somewhere with fireplaces and reading nooks and access to a beach and a little friendly pub and maybe a bakers who makes wonderful bread and sells fabulous cheeses and great wines ! ( and soft loo roll !!- ever the practical one !)
I'm going to write a wish list and start saving !!

ludothedog · 27/12/2016 19:59

Oh yes, and a lover not a DH. just someone to share romantic dinners with and long weekends. none of the boring day to day stuff. He would look like Poldark and adore me, of course!

and of course I could eat and drink till my hearts content without putting on weight.

Did I mention a housekeeper?

periwinklepickspoppies · 27/12/2016 20:10

Like now but by a large, quiet beach.

user1477282676 · 27/12/2016 20:13

Two or even three houses. One in the UK, one in Australia and another in Italy.

LOTS of travel.

WellKnackered · 27/12/2016 20:35

London penthouse by the river

An old characterful cottage next to a rocky beautiful cove/estuary with sweeping views across the sea (not quite sure where, Cornwall, Wales Scotland? ). I'd want my own moorings reachable from the garden and a boat.

I'd like lots of lovely family members to have houses around the world with plenty of spare bedrooms so we could go and stay when we fancied. Mostly though I would just like to walk along the beach with my DH and my imaginary dogs.

Id also like a chauffeur and very discreet and honest housekeepers who sort everything out for me.

TheCatsMother99 · 27/12/2016 20:43

I love my life as it is, I have a house I love in an area I love, friends and family I love - although I'd love to have a baby.... hopefully one day we'll fall pregnant.

CurlsandCurves · 27/12/2016 20:43

I'd like a slightly bigger house, 4 bedrooms instead end of 3.

And I'd like DH to work less hours for more money so we could afford 2 to3 holidays a year.

That'll do me.

mygorgeousmilo · 27/12/2016 20:46

Too busy fantasising at this point to actually write anything down! Great thread Blush

BlueEyedWonder · 27/12/2016 20:51
  1. Big victorian house in my home town overlooking the botanical Garden. Walled Garden. I'd work at the Uni (walking distance), lecturing on any number of subjects I enjoy espousing about. I'd be married to a doctor, working at the local hospital. Or
  2. Own a deli in Sorrento. Live above it.
GreatPointIAgreeWithYouTotally · 27/12/2016 20:52

I'd be a successful artist, living in a house high on the hills in the Northern Lake District. I'd have a barn conversion nearby where I'd run painting holidays and dh would take non painters on tours of the lakes. We'd travel to Tuscany, The Loire and Norway for fun and to paint.

PandoraMole · 27/12/2016 21:02

House big enough for me and DD and lots of socialising with family and friends (so 3 double beds, an ensure and a good sized downstairs with a large kitchen/diner), plus an art studio.

No need to do a 'proper job' - some kind of private income supplemeted by selling art, craft and pottery creations.

Long haul holiday and couple of European minibreaks every year, plus spontaneous weekends away for theatre, exhibitions etc in the UK.

Maybe a new man at some point Grin.

HorraceTheOtter · 27/12/2016 21:23

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OhTheRoses · 27/12/2016 21:35

Hmm.

Large house with a large garden; help with cleaning and garden
Children educated at the best schools - one, poss two at Oxford
DH at the top of his game - good, moral, v bright
Home in South of France
Good, professional job albeit not uber successful but have negotiated an extra month of holiday each year.

The energy and organisation it requires is mind blowing.

SantasJockstrap · 27/12/2016 21:43

I would like to live in a small southern irish village, with my OH, and all my family within walking distance.

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WilburIsSomePig · 27/12/2016 21:45

Actually I'm quite greedy so I want two (or possibly more) different lifestyles. My other one is on the west coast of Scotland in an old croft. Amazing big fireplaces, grow my own food and completely on my own.

At the weekends, I'd go to my penthouse flat overlooking the Clyde in Glasgow and spend the weekend going to fantastic restaurants with my friends on one night and the next night with my husband Hugh Jackman (that bit stays the same) in our beautiful apartment. I would eat anything I wanted and stay the same weight and be super healthy. Grin

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Pedallleur · 27/12/2016 21:47

Living somewhere warmer. Enough money not to worry about money. Having good health (all our family) and our daughter at a lovely school with lovely friends. Nice comfortable house. Being able to enjoy life/ski/cycle/walk whatever.

Vanillaradio · 27/12/2016 21:59

Ideally we would have enough money so neither dh or I would have to work. A huge house down by the park with nice views, an swimming pool on site and lots of space to be filled by a couple more kids and a dog. A housekeeper, a nanny and a pa to help us. Private health care. A second home somewhere warm to decamp to every Christmas. Lots of other travel to anywhere we wanted to go. I'd keep ds at his nursery maybe put it down to 2 days and look for a good private school for him. I'd do a part time university course, join a gym and go to all the places like the cinema, theatre etc that I don't have the time to go to now.