Anyone dislike where they live???

[Warren45]

And want to move away? We moved from London to Bucks a few years ago. I’d grown up here and regret moving back. Nothing has changed & it will never feel like somewhere I want to be. OH on the other hand loves it. Anyone in the same boat?

Expensive*

Yeah I really don't like my area. It's really just a mile radius in certain directions of my house. It has a much more pleasant vibe, less crime and better links just a short drive from us.

But the main thing is our actual house and the road we live on. The house has such thin walls and, as we've grown as a family, it offers no privacy and/or quiet space if anything is going on in any other part of the house. We really didn't think it through when buying, just thought of the number of rooms and amount of space.

Our road is a cul de sac and, while I enjoy pleasantries with neighbours, I just don't want to be close friends. But everyone on this road seems to want to live in each others pockets. It's overbearing to the point I want to leave. The crime rates are also getting worrying.

@Megan1992xx

Live by the sea absolutely love it! Would not swap it for the world.

What a weird response to the op

Yes, we moved to Ireland from the UK and I hate it for many reasons.

Yes! We moved 3 years ago from London to a seaside town and ive tried but i just dont like it! The locals are mostly unfriendly and think the place is amazing for some reason.
There are plus points like we now have a house not a flat and its easy to drive places round here but this is not where i want to live forever.
I never get that ‘im home’ feeling when we drive back from being away.

Hate our weird 60s semi. It's an ugly box. Bought in a hurry due to impending baby and v close to an excellent rated school, good postcode, nice family area etc. We'll be here at least another 10 years. I hate the layout.

I do. I live in a village that most people who visit think is lovely and quaint....the reality is it's as boring as hell and the sooner I'm out the better.

Me! I used to love where I live, absolutely love it, the house, the community, the area. Exactly what I wanted for my life. I was so happy!

Moved (won't say why) now living somewhere I hate, hate everything about it, exactly the sort of place I used to be relieved I had not ended up living. After quite few years I have come to quite like the nation and city it is in, but the neighbourhood I still hate. My heart sinks everytime I drive back to my house (can't call it a home).

Staying here for kids' school but then will move. No way am I dying here.

I half hate and half love where I live. Loads of litter, traffic, depressing social problems. OTOH fantastic neighbours, great public transport, nice house.

Yes. We live in a nice house in a great area, but the area is such a tourist hotspot I find it makes it nigh on impossible to live a normal life once you get out the front door.

First world problems I know, but it's changed so much in the last 30 years I can't wait to move ☹️

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

Stick a pin in a map and try somewhere else.

Looking for a new relationship? Throw a brick out the window and marry whoever it hits.

Oh my Lord that made my laugh!

I’m lucky enough to live in a lovely village. It’s the sort of place estate agents call ‘highly sought-after’.

Our local city, however, is a total dump. It has declined massively over the last 20 years. What was once enjoyable level multi-cultural diversity has become a third world shithole notorious for its sweatshop garment factories in which illegal immigrants are ruthlessly exploited.

Me! I absolutely loathe the commuter town I live in. This part of the south east is massively overdeveloped, way busier than it used to be but I think for me it goes deeper than the fact that for me this is just too busy an area. So many bad things have happened to me since I moved here, it's forever linked in my mind with those situations.

I am stuck here at the moment because of family commitments but there is no way I am going to stay here beyond that.

I disliked it during the pandemic lockdowns. We’re in outer London and if you can never move from your immediate area it gets very dull here. No lovely walks and cycle rides from your front door, as we heard everyone bragging about.

However in normal times I quite like it (although didn’t choose to live here, long story) because it’s close enough for central London and for the countryside/ sea side at a push.

I absolutely despise it and everyone here

Very little choice in where I live/move to. On disability benefits. Private renter as council takes years and there are even worse areas compared to this where they have their one bed flats. I have a nice landlord but the area is shit. It's close to town and a very deprived area. My street was in the local news just this past week with social housing tenants saying that it wasn't safe for them to raise their kids here; so obviously the new block of flats built as that's the only social housing.

I dream of a garden so I could have a cat or a dog. But I wouldn't live in London, even if I was paid to.

Me. I live in a narrow minded Brexity Tory town where foreigners are frowned upon. A bit of a problem, since I am one. I've lived here for 22 years because it was where we could afford to buy at the time - my late husband needed to be close to work and didn't drive. Now my DC are grown up and at university. They're gay and guess what - this town is full of homophobes too.

I'm working on an escape.

Can't wait to move but will be around 5 years before we can.

Hate living on a main road, for 20 years, yes really, was Dh's house when I met him. Occasionally look at other houses, but nothing is as good as what we have.

I hate London and would love to move to a nice village, it dangerous, fighting, stabbing, bombs, shooting, mugging you name it I could go on. X

I am going to move once my mortgage tix comes to an end next July. I love my house but I have ptsd and the event happened in this house so despite redecorating and changing the layouts of furniture I can never forget. Also the actual place have great facilities but is a huge town (city size) and although my road is quite nice we have had druggies dropping needles, I have had my car keyed a few times too. I am looking to move to a large village/small town still fairly local.

I used to as we moved into a small, ugly flat to get my DD into a sought after primary school. My intention was to move after about a year but we ended up staying there for the entire six years until secondary applications. It was in a very suburban area - all houses, no shops. I didn’t like the area really or the flat itself. I now live nearer to a busy high street in a nicer, bigger flat and I am looking after it much better and feel more content.

I've just realised I don't even have this house as "home" in my phone list. Because it doesn't feel like it. It's just the street name.
My old house isn't far away but the neighbours are nice and I had a view from my bedroom.

@Darbs76
If I was you I wouldn't wait as when the children get older they don't want to go usually and then you're stuff because you don't want to leave them behind. X

Yes, I really, really regret moving to the town we now live in! I'd move to so many other places, but dh isn't arsed. It's been the source of a few arguments actually.

But, on paper it's nice here and is good for the kids in terms of safety and schools, amenities etc. We've been here 7 years and I still hate it.