Shopping local

[CatCake]

I hope I'm posting in the right place! Been thinking lately about how I'd like to live and I'd love to find a place that ticks these boxes. Hoping that the wise folk of MN might have some ideas:

1. local shopping within walking distance - I'm thinking sort of like an old-fashioned high street, serving a local community, with butcher, baker, chemist, grocer, general store, maybe fishmonger, florist, bookshop, café, all in one place, where people shop daily / several times a week rather than weekly.
2. sense of community - small enough that people know each other but big enough to still have a sense of being thriving / having a buzz.
3. small local primary and secondary schools.

Ideally, this would be somewhere in the North of England but I'd be interested to hear about anywhere people have experienced that ticks these boxes.

Farsley, Yorkshire. Ticks all that and more.

an old-fashioned high street, serving a local community, with butcher, baker, chemist, grocer, general store, maybe fishmonger, florist, bookshop, café, all in one place,

Our local high street has:

• butcher X 2 (1 also does fish)

• baker x2

• chemist x2

• grocers - 1 general, 1 vegan, 1 vegetarian, 1 green, 1 no waste refill, and several other shops have a grocery section

• general store - a hardware and general store, plus several other shops covering part of what you'd expect in a general store

• fishmonger - see butcher above, and 1 of the fish and chips shops also has a wet fish counter

• florist - florist and garden shop attached to the hardware store

• bookshop - second hand

• café - heaps of them, several with Michelin or Good Food Guide mentions.

Also a small but excellent homeware shop, a few clothes shops, tailor, ice cream parlour, monthly craft market, the sea ...

The one thing we don't have (since last year) is a bank beanch, but there is a post office and a credit union.

We're not in Northern England though. Northern Ireland.