To ask where I can move that won't have depressing random nutcases and law-exempt criminal youth around every corner

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I know it's nice to have a social safety net and I want that but we don't have it now it's just unfunded chaos and the press moaning about public sector workers.

So, Switzerland? Singapore? Where is feasible (in my forties so recognise that I'd need to make a damn good case for myself). Somewhere boring and hardworking with rules and clean streets and a health service you can access and no toleration for the stuff that's everywhere in the UK now.

I am prepared for the answer to be hard cheese you left it too late and now just need to stay indoors as much as poss until the sweet release of death.

Japan - although you’d probably have to learn the language and getting a long term visa might be a problem.

I’m amazed at how many threads like this I see. I emigrated from the UK last year due to stagnant wages, but I loved everything else about living in London/the UK. It was wonderful. Where I live now is “the only place I would leave London for”. That’s how much I love London.

Where do you live, OP? What’s so terrible about it? Can the UK have changed that much in the year I’ve been gone?!

I’m genuinely baffled by this discussion.

The moon

Same, I moved from this kind of city to a far nicer town (West midlands still but so nice) and we have no issues like this

Yeah… but that would be too simple 😂 (and not involve a performative MN post)

As would actually sharing skills, languages and budget.

Where do you live?? I don’t live in a shit area btw, it’s fine here, I don’t recognise these issues but I do love London and I don’t live there anymore so I wonder if I need to live where you do!

North Korea would suit

Move to a nice area. My parents live in rural but accessible to hospitals / shops in Scotland and it’s lovely. Big expensive houses, completely middle class / arty / mostly retired people. My sister just moved to the Borders and it’s equally lovely. She used to live in central Edinburgh, but in a very naice suburb so nothing like you describe. I live in France, in a city but a lovely arrondissement and again nothing like you describe.

Or in my area. It's lovely here. Small town in East Midlands.

This, if the op really does want to move.

Vancouver Island …absolutely gorgeous and clean .

Well I don’t, I walk most places. My city is a lovely place to live - safe and friendly, with a strong sense of community.

Beaconsfield? Old Amersham?

Like UK you mean .......

I think you and I could be friends……

I thought it has been Finland for several years running? Or happiest place, maybe.

What do you do for a living - would any of your skills be in demand in the Nordics?

Stockholm is one of the grimiest cities I’ve ever been to. The drug scene was terrible. And that’s saying a lot. I come from South Africa.

its probably the “city” bit that’s the issue. I live in a village and don’t have those problems but equally don’t have the facilities of a city

I'd go to the West or South coast of ROI. Towns I'd live in are Westport, Kenmare, Kinsale, Dunmore East, Wexford, Wicklow. All lovely but none totally perfect either, where is?

Cost of living high. Health care fine if you have PHI, public health system creaking like UK. No visa required, just pack up and leave under Common Travel Area.

I used to live in South Dublin. It was great but expensive. North side of Dublin is not generally recommended but has pockets of beauty, but South of the city is fab. That's where the politicians and wealthy folk live so it's well taken care of.😊

If you have the money to emigrate you can afford to move to a nice part of the UK. My village isn't anything like you describe.
Don't watch the Simon Reeve Scandinavia programme if you think it's perfect there.

I'm another living in a very pleasant, clean, low-crime area.

It's a small town in the SE, surrounded by beautiful countryside and close to the coast. There is loads going on - live music, comedy nights, concerts, terrific independent cinema that is run by local people and owned as a community asset. There are great pubs, nice cafes and some good places to eat. I can walk round the corner from my house, cross the road and then I could walk 5 miles or so before I got to a road. And it's only an hour from London on the train.

What about somewhere like the Isle of Man? Isn't that meant to be relatively 20thC still? Or Shetland? Apparently there's a cake fridge. And a lot of murderous oil bastards/vengeful families, etc.

Why wouldn’t they let OP in?

Did you grow up in constant fear of death?