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Where would you live? Escape to the country...

kayfaz
kayfaz Posts: 95 Forumite
edited 23 February 2015 at 11:19AM in House buying, renting & selling
In an ideal world where you could work from home and choose to live anywhere, any village/countryside in England/Wales/Scotland where would you live?
As in what part of the country would be your dream town to live in?
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  • movilogo
    movilogo Posts: 3,235 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I live in Bedfordshire. Beautiful countryside yet easily commutable from London. Property price is very reasonable in spite of proximity to London.

    After retirement, I prefer to live in Scotland. Would love to move there (lived there before) but can't because lack of jobs.
    Happiness is buying an item and then not checking its price after a month to discover it was reduced further.
  • kayfaz
    kayfaz Posts: 95 Forumite
    Sorry had forgotten to include Scotland to the list, amended now :)
  • enginesuck
    enginesuck Posts: 130 Forumite
    The Moray Coast. Beautiful uncrowded. 15 mins from Inverness airport (links to london and Amsterdam for worldwide travel)

    Good local restaurants, friendly people. Stunning Beaches, 30 minutes from skiing in the Cairngorms. Its idyllic.

    Im hoping it stays a secret as i love living here
  • Lauraj1391
    Lauraj1391 Posts: 25 Forumite
    I live in Surrey now but would love to retire to somewhere like Cornwall everyone seems happy there by the coast compared to miserable people in Croydon!
    Buying our own home is so exciting!
  • benjus
    benjus Posts: 5,433 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    In the UK, probably the Stroud valleys in the Cotswolds, where I grew up.

    Internationally, probably somewhere in Latin America or possibly SE Italy.
    Let's settle this like gentlemen: armed with heavy sticks
    On a rotating plate, with spikes like Flash Gordon
    And you're Peter Duncan; I gave you fair warning
  • wiogs
    wiogs Posts: 2,744 Forumite
    Angus or Perthshire
  • CWSmith
    CWSmith Posts: 451 Forumite
    Lauraj1391 wrote: »
    I live in Surrey now but would love to retire to somewhere like Cornwall everyone seems happy there by the coast compared to miserable people in Croydon!

    :rotfl:
    Lived in Surrey (albeit the scabby, south London end) and last year moved to the north Cornwall coast.

    Even today, when it's cold and wet, it is still the nearest thing to heaven on earth (in my opinion anyway). I would thoroughly recommend it. House prices are a shed load cheaper than Surrey too. ;)
  • Lauraj1391
    Lauraj1391 Posts: 25 Forumite
    CWSmith wrote: »
    :rotfl:
    Lived in Surrey (albeit the scabby, south London end) and last year moved to the north Cornwall coast.

    Even today, when it's cold and wet, it is still the nearest thing to heaven on earth (in my opinion anyway). I would thoroughly recommend it. House prices are a shed load cheaper than Surrey too. ;)

    If it wasn't for my OH business i would move tomorrow! I'm so jealous :rotfl: i don't think i would miss anything about Croydon actually maybe....nope not a thing!
    Buying our own home is so exciting!
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    I like it here in the New Forest but I would like to live on Dungeness. And, yes, I have seen the power station.
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    I'd like Cornwall or Devon somewhere like that.
    It must be lovely to be able to jump in a little boat after you've had your breakfast and go out a catch a couple of fresh fish for your tea.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

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