Want to move back to UK

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Nearly three years ago we moved abroad to a rural location having lived in London for 20 years. My two kids (9 and 12 now) have settled in really well and have friends, enjoy school, enjoy their hobbies and generally have an idyllic childhood out and about walking dogs and biking round the village. We are also only 20 mins from the beach. My husband likes it too. He says he has a good work-life balance and he enjoys the space (much bigger house here than in London). He works from home but travels abroad a lot for work - this week he’s away Friday to Thursday. I am the only one who really doesn’t like it here. I think it is boring, we have made no friends (we have one friend but don’t see him much and his wife has made it clear to me she doesn’t need a friend), I miss being able to walk to shops, go for a coffee with friends, go to the cinema and the theatre and restaurants without driving for half an hour. There are no facilities in our village. I miss friends and family back in the UK. Our work is flexible so it doesn’t matter where we are based. Am I being unreasonable/selfish to want to move everyone back to the UK when the rest of my family are happy here?

I might add that spending large amounts of time with extended family is considered pretty normal in France.
Which sounds lovely in theory, OP, if like us, we were only children but in practice can be a bloody nightmare.
Not that ex potential MIL disliked me, at least not to my face, in fact she preferred me to the previous girlfriend who allegedly had a 'lamentably rustic side.'

So glad the move worked out for you. If you don’t mind me asking - where in the UK did you move back to? Somewhere you’d lived before, near family and friends, or somewhere entirely new?

Really well put! I love London and feel privileged to have lived there so long.