what's it like where you live?

[rattleskuttle]

i'd like to imagine moving somewhere. please tell me about where you live.
this is where i live:
jersey
mild british weather, fields and hedgerows, beautiful beaches, good schools, very low crime rate
high population density, bog standard house costs £400,000, reasonable house costs £550,000, 3 bed house rent is £1,500 per month, loaf of bread costs £1.20. main industry is international finance, no unemployment. bit of a problem with alcoholism and binge drinking. very conservative. expensive to leave (on a plane). mostly english people here with jersey families, portuguese and polish and some kenyans. language is english but use of french apparent, eg in road names.
can be about 10 years behind the times.

Where I live?

Depressing

Insular

Gossipy

I live in the Midlands. Close to city centre so easy to walk/cycle to everywhere. Very cosmopolitan, lots of cafes, pubs, bars, galleries, shops (in the middle of developing scarily large shopping centre which I'm not so sure about!). Lots of parks/green spaces, only 15 minutes drive to countryside. Only an hour on the train to London. Close to motorway, airports. 3 bed semi approx £170k-£200k. Good mixture of different cultures, british, asian, eastern european - brilliant for curries!

I like it here - although would be nice to be a bit closer to a beach!

We do have a lovely houes...4 bed 2 bath...swimming pool....and 5 mins from the beach....but I would live in a shed...if my family and friends could have joined us out here.

Shit just found a picture of me on one of the sites I was searching for pictures

we do have this problem though

I live in Richmond, SW London. It's hideously expensive - £450,000 for a 2 bed terrace but the park and river are beautiful. We live ten minutes walk from the river and five minutes from the top of Richmond Hill. Shopping is fairly good, and Kingston and Kensington are nearby for more choice. Loads of nice places to eat and drink, and we have a tube station.
All kinds of people really, loads of UMC types in their mumtrucks, older people, and aussies/kiwis/eastern europeans working in bars/shops/restaurants.

In summer it's full of tourists, who think it's a great laugh to sit by the river, get pissed and leave loads of rubbish behind. Oh and celebrities are everywhere.

I have a love/hate relationship with the place - we are moving to Australia in October and I will be sorry to leave but glad at the same time.

yes , Middlesbrough !
i'm so jealous of some of you. It seems like there is such a big world out there and my dreams seem so small at the mo. If we could just live in a nicer part of an awful town i would be over the moon.
Speaking of which, none of you want to buy my house do you? The local drunks are really froiendly and the dog owwners even remember to clean up their dogs crap occasionally - (my house is gorgeous tho!)

For those who live somewher other than your birthplace - how did you end up there? was relocating easy?

Another MNer in Lincolnshire here >

North Lincolnshire wolds area... moved into 5 bed detached in very small village last year....£240,000. Good schools.. grammer. Crap public transport... actually NOT crap, merely non-existent. Teenagers hang around village hall looking faintly menacing or just stay home, glued to computers.

Everyone knows everyone else by name and you cannot do anything without whole village knowing (ie: having new sofa delivered).

Lots of eastern europeans (I think that's who they are) all working in the fields. Gangmasters bring them in the early hours and they are gone by 4pm, like ghosts in the night.

Motorcyclists come through every Wednesday night and all weekend, ignoring speed limits and at least one a week dies on the bends and we all just nod grimly at one another when we see the ambulances flash through the village.

Ah... country life.

30 mins drive from places like this - and decent houses from £150,000 - need I say more?

And bread is free if you go to Booths on a sunday after 3.30pm

Is that the lakes...liquidlocks...wales...or scotland??

rattleskuttle the isle of wight is much the same as jersey being behind the times
it is about half price for us to get a return ticket to the mainland but very expensive for people to get a ticket the other way around

Liquidclocks-Where abouts are you?

Wastwater is north Lakes right?

Another SE Londoner here. Suits me, it's my manor (said in Arfur Daley accent). My dream is liquidclocks picture though. I think Highlands of Scotland will be my retirement.

West of Scotland - nice beaches , beautiful scenery, lots of families, relatively high unemployment, private sector jobs hard to find although there are obviously some, house prices low compared to South of England, (so are salaries, though) good primary schools, not so good secondaries, G
good road and rail links to Glasgow, bad, bad, bad winter weather (cosy, though with fires etc), when summer weather is good no where better in the world, people like children here (makes life easier), people always friendly too.

Bristol.....nightmare traffic...soaring houses....gun crime/drug crime on the increase.....

Mind you, I do live there which does brighten the place up a lot!

Soaring house prices rather!!

new forest
absolutely gorgeous
lots of teeny weeny foals bounding about

how's the cliff at barton on sea ggirl?

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Purbeck dorset, expensive houses, noisy tanks, beautiful scenery great beaches wouldn't live anywhere else

don't live near there sea,sorry ,live north west part of forest.

sorry i will try again.
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Norfolk
Moved here 5 years ago from Bedford
It's peaceful, and very slow....
i like it