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?

Everything is just miles away and i underestimated how much it would bother me. Nearest train station is a 15 min drive away with no guarantee of parking. Our last one was half a mile away. Nearest motorway is 20 mins away instead of 5. Nearest vet shut down so now it's a 25 minute drive to the next nearest one. No corner shop just down the road. No garage in walking distance when it's time to get the car serviced. No restaurants in walking distance. Nearest swimming pool is miles away. We're further from my in laws who I really like.
We're high up, so snow in Winter properly traps you, and there are horrible mists that come in constantly. I find the hills above us really oppressive.
And it's a less friendly area too. Villages have the rep of everyone knowing everyone, but it was far more like that in my old town, and I liked that.
Sorry - bit of a rant there.

Yes! I live on the top of a hill overlooking a loch with no neighbours.

It's a bit of a trek to get anywhere but I love the peace and quiet and being able to have lots of animals

Absolutely despise it - it’s expensive and dull as dishwater. We moved here out of necessity for work (both me and partner) and we’re already planning our escape.

(For reference, we’ve both lived in various places across the U.K. and beyond - genuinely don’t know why anyone lives here unless they have to).

Yes, every outing is like an epic quest. Unfortunately my husband likes it.

Costs - well average 3 bed house is probably 220k

Renting around £500-600 for the same

Yes.

We moved North South and everyone down here is so much friendlier.
We thought about downsizing now we are retired, then we looked at what we had and decided to stay put.

Half an hour from the M25, ditto the M3, exactly halfway between LHR and LGW, an hour and a half from the sea, fifty minutes into Waterloo and ten minutes into the countryside.

I live in zone 6 London and hate it. Would happily live in zone 1 or 2 but can’t afford it so we are moving to a smaller town in a few months and I can’t wait.

I love our village (north Gloucestershire) - close to the river, lots of walking, well away from main roads. Recently buried my Dad's ashes in the churchyard, so can't ever imagine wanting to leave. I grew up here, and have lived here for most of my 52 years.

The only downside is the massive amount of building work that's gone on over the last 8 years or so. Every large garden has been sold off and now has a McMansion in it, we've had a 80 home estate built that looks like a toddler drew it. Cars everywhere at all hours. It really has ruined the place, and everyone in lockdown got a dog so on every footpath you're guaranteed to meet a badly behaved cockapoo in a fleece jumper . They've bloody cloned, I swear.

North Somerset. I love it here, all the facilities, culture and energy of Bristol a 14 minute walk away over Clifton Suspension Bridge, the country on our doorstep and the coast a 15 minute bike ride away. The main downside is that property is phenomenally expensive here. We've downsized and are renting.

I've lived elsewhere but being a Bristol bird I am at home here. Never underestimate the pull of home and the joy of friends you've known forever living just around the corner.

I live in Liverpool and I love it. The city is vibrant and the people are great. We live in a gorgeous, leafy suburban area in the south of the city with beautiful parks, restaurants, pubs and cafes within ten minutes walking distance. We’ve not long been in our new house and finally have our forever home: it’s large enough for the kids to have their own space and us not to be under each other’s feet and there’s plenty for us to do. We feel very fortunate!

I live in South Cumbria where I grew up. Lived away down south for uni, abroad, in London, moved back up when kids were babies.

Once I get past the Mushroom on the M6 my heart soars.

I LOVE the village I live in. Outskirts of Cambridge. Lovely friendly village with 2 great pubs, lots of sports clubs for the DC, lovely dog walks, close enough to Cambridge and Huntingdon for shopping/restaurants etc but rural enough for peace and quiet and safety.
I’ve lived in lots of places all over the world but the last 6/7 years have been my favourite being here 😀

That is the problem with it here. There are lovely restaurants around but taxis are hard to get and very expensive so it’s not really possible to go out without a designated driver (unless money isn’t an issue).
The other thing is (as someone who loves to travel) being so far away from an airport. Newquay airport has a very limited destinations and to get anywhere further/or for cheaper flights you need to factor in another day each side for travelling to and from a major airport.
But, it’s worth it, I’ve been living here five years now and wouldn’t want to move away.

I have a love hate relationship with where I live. I love: being near the city, diversity of population, buzzy atmosphere, ease of getting places, amazing forward thinking school, availability of clubs and opportunities for kids
Dislike: having to drive to get to countryside, litter due to being near city, huge amount of cars everywhere, weather
I grew up in the countryside and hated it but I think our next move will be to a nicer, smarter commuter belt town. It's gritty rather than pretty where we are but we have a lovely home, nice neighbours and kids are happy so we are doing ok :)

I live in a small town on the Kent coast. Things I love and dislike about it are conflicting - for example, I really love the peace and quiet and the lack of light pollution but in order to go anywhere for a day or night out I have to book a hotel and stay over somewhere, or go to visit friends who live in more lively areas. The social opportunities in my area are very limited! The only decent pub is around 3 miles away. Beach walks are fine, but I'm not mad keen on walking on the beach every day, nor cycling miles to get anywhere (plus, the roads are atrocious). Public transport is terrible around here, too, and the train service into London is VERY expensive - around £70-£80 per day if travelling during peak hours and including parking.

However, the reason we moved to where we now live was to get on the property ladder in a peaceful area without saddling ourselves with a massive mortgage (both husband and I were in our late 40s when we moved). It's a cheap area, comparatively - for our income anyway and we'd like to scale back on working in the next 5 years or so. It was a bit of a 'means to an end' move for us, but overall has/is working ok.

I would really like to buy a studio or 1-bed flat in a lively town either in Kent or East Sussex (Margate or Hastings, ideally) so we have the option to spend some weekends going to gigs, restaurants and bars. We were going to do some work on the house, but are now thinking of using the money instead to buy a little flat somewhere - I think it'd give us a better balance of peace & quiet and socialising.

Yes! Small community. Some might say with nothing going on. But for us it has friends, family, amazing coastline, countryside and mountains all on our doorstep. We don’t need more.

We’re used to having to travel a bit for things like big shopping centres, arts and “city” things. I suspect that would drive a lot of people mad.

lockdown really helped us appreciate what we have.

I hate where I live. I never wanted to move here but exH wanted to be near his dad so we moved. When that relationship ended I didn't have the money to move back home. I later met and married someone here, so this is where I've stayed.

It's a northern city famed for its friendliness when in fact if you're seen as an outsider (and I still am, 30 years after moving here) people are openly hostile to you. Where I live there's a lot of crime - several murders in the last few years, stabbings, drugs and general antisocial behaviour. It's awful.

I would love to move but it's never going to happen.

We really love where we live, but we need a bigger home and it’s a very expensive town so the likelihood of us being able to stay here is very very slim. Will break our hearts to move away, although hopefully it won’t be too far.

We’re in Northumberland and I love it. Close to the seaside, loads of beautiful countryside, much much cheaper than down south. Our town has some fantastic schools and a great community feel- always loads of local events on and stuff for kids. We’re walking distance to 2 parks, shops and DDs school.

Ribble valley Lancashire. Love it. It regularly comes high up in best places to live.
Friendly, easy access to countryside, reasonable prices, good schools. Not too far from a city.

I live in a small HA bungalow on the edge of a village and I hate it. The local shop is hideously expensive, there is now only 1 pub that is a mile and a half away down a very steep hill, no bus service, getting a taxi for a night out ( or anything else), in the nearest town (7 miles away), costs close to £40 for a return journey and winter is horrible....no gritters ever and because of the hills then getting anywhere when there is snow on the ground is downright dangerous.
The idea that I'm here until the day I die is too depressing for words.

I live in a small town, Maynooth about a 20 mins drive and 45 min train ride to the big smoke - Dublin, in Ireland.
Some of the fields around us have horses and cows. quite a few farms etc. Our village has restaurants and bars and a university.
The moment I drove down the main street before I had considered even relocating - I knew this was home.

I like the general area, house is lovely but tbh we've outgrown it. The problem is the village - was a village when we moved here, but has expanded so much it's like a small town in size but without the facilities.

House is going on the market soon, the penny has finally dropped that we don't have to stay.

I love where I live. I'm in the south suburbs of Dublin near great transport links into city centre but in 10 min I'm up the mountains or on the coast swimming in the sea. Great schools, shops, sports clubs, pubs, restaurants. I lived in South London for 10 years but after getting married moved back to Dublin to have my kids and I'm very content here. Downside..House prices (and everything else) is very expensive

Surrey. Nice for space and greenery but I miss London so much. For a house of the same size as what we have now we’d need at least 1.5 million !