To ask if you love where you live?

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I don't feel settled. My partner and I are tempted to just completely move away. We'd need to rent a 3 bedroom house, have schools nearby and just a pleasant day to day life.....

Where do you live and what do you love about it? What are costs like?

I love the city I live in but I don't love the house. I'm working on changing the house though it will mean much higher outgoings because prices are high here.

I move a lot internationally, though planning to stay where we are now for the next seven years to let DS finish school without any more moves. Yes, I like where I am, a small non-UK university city with a vibrant arts scene, close to glorious countryside and coastline.

I love where I live. A lovely part of Cornwall, not too far from the sea. Lovely walks close by. Lots of time spent outdoors.

No, not at all. I like the actual house fine but not the area or the city. We're putting it on the market in a couple of months and moving.

No. Didn’t want to move there. Feel stuck even following divorce. Will move when kids grow up probably!

Edinburgh- all the convenience of a bustling city but with the beach and countryside still right on your doorstep. Unfortunately comes at a cost though.

I love where we live. DH grew up here but we are only an hour from my friends and family. It has a rural feel but a 10 minute drive from the city centre ( not a huge one which means kids will be safe in a few years to go alone.)
Unfortunatley we have outgrown our house and cannot afford the move yet to a bigger one but I still love the area.

I hate it and am planning to move.
Been here 16 years - when I moved here it was semi-rural.
3000 extra houses have been built with zero improvements for the town, and they are still building. Everywhere stinks of weed and the anti-social driving, street racing and illegally loud cars are out of control. The local Police even went on social media to tell us to stop reporting the street racing one night as they couldn't cope with the volume of calls.
It's become a total shithole so I am off asap.

No, it’s too small. I long to move to a large exciting city but we don’t have the money.

We live in the Surrey area, absolutely love our house and the area, very settled. We will move but not until our DD heads to Uni in a few years time, we will then head somewhere off the beaten track so we can have my horses at home.

I live in a small semi-rural town in the SW & love it.
Great community feel, close to the coasts, moors, woods, lots of attractions for the kids, good schools, some good shops & friendly people, not far from several cities.
Downsides are lack of things like drs & dentists, & public transport is pretty much nonexistent or unreliable & expensive, so a car is a necessity.

St Albans, and I absolutely love it. It's a small market city, packed with history, and with a wonderful sense of community. I can be in central London in 20 minutes on the train, and in the countryside after a 10 minute drive. It's beautiful, and very vibrant, with lots of restaurants, pubs, theatres, museums, an amazing cathedral, a fabulous cinema. We'll never move.

It's not cheap though. We bought our tiny 3 bed terrace for £375k in 2013, and it's recently been valued at £650k.

@JudgeAnderson I was about to say no not at all as well; it's a relatively safe area but I've had some harassment (targeted towards me) and police involvement.

It's expensive although it has a couple of strong benefits in terms of large supermarkets and hospital nearby. It's not very scenic, there aren't interesting/tranquil places to go to within a short distance.

I'm actively seeking to move soon so fingers crossed 🤞

I like the area (rural East Midlands) but not the house. It's a 4 bed detached, too big for two retired pensioners, and DH has some significant mobility issues which make the stairs difficult. Would dearly love to move to a smaller bungalow in the same area, but they go for more than we'd get for our house, so we're a bit stuck.

I love it I live in a fairly small but quite bustling town in Gloucestershire. I love my house and it's location close to town. I think I wouldn't like it so much if I didn't live as centrally as I do. It's so nice to be so close to beautiful countryside and the town centre

Our local town isn’t great but I love our village and some of the other ones nearby.
I love my house and where it is, my neighbours are great and it isn’t a very expensive area . I love how friendly most people are
I love that I can get to some great cities very quickly and easily

No I don't love where I am, I was born and raised by the sea and now live in my husbands home town much more inland and it feels stifling sometimes.
It is a nice area, lots of greenery and woodlands, even a river near by but I will always miss the coast.

I love where I live. I'm in the West Midlands and live in a large village outside of Tamworth. I love our house. We're in a nice area. DH WFH and I'm a Foster Carer so we could move but don't want to. We have Snowdone about 3 miles away with swimming, climbing wall, ice skating, tobogganing, shoots and flumes sessions in swim pool so plenty to keep DFS amused. We live close to a large lake where we walk dogs and it is beautiful, lots of trees and wild flowers around outside plus ducks, geese and swans. Part way around there is a BMX area with ramps and things. There is the Castle Pleasure Grounds we go to walk in too with a large lovely play park for younger and older children plus a skate park and tennis courts. We have lots of sports facilities and DFS is very sporty so goes to Karate, Crav Magar and I drive him to Solihull to play cricket. You can get a coffee, doggy ice cream and human ice cream there too. There is a good cinema the shops are ok and it's a 10-15 train station with regular trains into Birmingham. We go into Birmingham to the theatre and the ballet at Xmas plus to see Xmas lights. We go into Birmingham to use the indoor cricket nets and watch the cricket at Edgbaston stadium too. DS lives close by too so I wouldn't want to move. Lichfield is also only 13 miles away and a train there takes 8 minutes.

Yes I do.

Whenever we didn't love where we lived, we went somethere else.

I live in a town that became a city. I’ve heard it said ‘it was a great town but it’s a shitty city’ and hard to argue to be honest. Full of badly/cheaply built houses to shove as many people into as possible. I’d leave in an instant back to a rural area if I didn’t have kids. But it’s brilliant for families, everything is close by from general shops, to soft play, cinema, even theme parks are within an hours drive. Twenty minutes on the train to one of the biggest cities in the uk if you want the full metropolitan experience. My friends who still live in the sticks don’t have the variety of choices in where they shop or things to do, but they have fresh air and the quiet life with much nicer homes. I would really really miss decent JustEat options of I lived back there again though, but that’s the greedy guts in me talking 🤣

I love living in Devon and I love our house. I like our town but wouldn’t say I love it…. we definitely live in one of the nicest areas of it though.

We have no plans to move…. hopefully we’re in our “forever home”

Near Malvern. Lovely house,family all around, not expensive. Beautiful hills. Town is beautiful. Theatre, galleries, restaurants, cafes, farmers market, Waitrose .

@BingoBastards I'm so sorry you've had targetted harrassment, that is awful, I hope you can get moved soon.

snap! I love everything about it apart from the cost of housing and the tourists

I live in Walthamstow and I don’t care for it, I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for housing prices and children, I much prefer Hackney 🤷🏻‍♀️
having said that, if I was totally free to live wherever, I would pick Holland.