Best part of England to move to??

pusscat

I grew up in Shrewsbury so second that one!

I am currently living in the East Riding of Yorkshire and highly recommend it. 15 minutes to York, 40 minutes to Leeds, 20 minutes to the M62 - house prices are a bit high, plenty of market towns and villages. Less tourists than North Yorks, but just as pretty.

Downsides are lack of NHS dentists (costs £10 per month as a private patient) and snow on a regular basis.

It really depends if you need to be located close to anything, I am lucky as I work from home 4 days a week so I can live almost anywhere.
I love living with my front door in the town, and my back door in the country....

Puss

freebo_2

http://www.corbridge.gov.uk/

But maybe I'm biased

missile

:beer: Costa Blanca :rotfl:

poppy10_2

Madmel wrote:

Poppy10, which part of Wessex do you mean?

Hampshire/South Wiltshire

JoeyG

How about Cheltenham?

Small town, edge of the Cotswolds... great shops, great nightlife, links to Birmingham, Bristol, London, and Wales (if you're that way inclined)

Madmel

I'm quite enjoying East Devon, but it depends on what you like or are used to.

I moved from S Manchester 9 years ago to Exeter and found it really odd. In Exeter, it seems to be the hub of the universe, but I hated not having shops like John Lewis or Ikea at first. However, after a while, I got used to it, and now I have kids, I love the fact that the quality of life is better, the countryside is on my doorstep and the sea close by.

Last year we moved out of Exeter into East Devon to a very small village close to the sea. This morning as we were setting off for school, all we could hear were birds, there is a stream across the lane and beautiful countryside all around us (we are in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). We are 5 minutes from the beach, but 25 minutes from Exeter and you need a car as there is no public transport here.

Everywhere has good & bad points; you need to weigh up what is most important to you and go for that.

smreynard

I moved from London to Lincolnshire over 20 years ago and since I came up here over 30 family and friends have followed! The Lincolnshire Wolds are an area of outstanding natural beauty, lovely little market towns, plenty of work, long sandy coast, fresh air, low crime rate and best of all the cheapest property around! I've been an estate agent for the last 20 years and plenty of 'outsiders' agree with me.

Jillinoz

My vote's for Hebden Bridge, which is equidistant between Manchester and Leeds (but don't let that put you off!) and is in West Yorkshire.

We're apparently the fourth funkiest town in the world (according to that well known arbiter of what's-hot-and-what's-not, the British Airways inflight magazine!)

Seriously, though, we're the number one non-clone town in the UK, so no Starbucks, no Tesco, no KFC etc etc, just a raft of great little independent stores, including an organic grocers, traditional butchers, an old-fashioned chandlers, four well-stocked bookshops, a wealth of coffee shops and cafes and a fabulous deli selling wine, cheese and locally hand-made chocolates. As you can see, I never feel the need to shop anywhere else.

Plus, we are in the Pennines, so have wonderful walking, biking and horse-riding country, and are close to many other beauty spots, such as Haworth, the home of the Brontes.

And if you really need to go to Leeds or Manchester, the transport links are excellent.

withabix

Cumbria, but not the popular parts of the Lake District.

Options would be:

The Eden Valley - the healthiest place in Britain, apparently.
Brampton and surrounding villages/Hadrian's Wall area
The area around Sedbergh is also nice.

Carlisle has one of the best pedestrianised shopping centres I've been to. A good selection of shops and department stores as well.

Not forgetting The Toffee Shop in Penrith. World Famous!!

pinkparrott

Come up to Yorkshire! really friendly folk, great food , pretty towns and villages . Rugged hill and senic countryside.
I live in Ilkley , with the famous moor! and its the best place I've ever lived.
Its great , lovely spa town with 1st class facilities, and if your retiring everything is on your door step, with an airport about 10 miles away , direct train line to leeds. and the Yorkshire Dales right on your door step. Plus great for links to motorways for getting pretty much any where in the uk.
Only down side is its a bit cold sometimes and the house prices in Ilkley are a bit steep compared to some other parts of Yorkshire