Anyone leave London for better and if so where?

sterl1ng

House prices hectic here in the big smoke, selling up and looking to buy a house but really I'm starting to wonder if worth it and just move elsewhere getting more for my money. I quite like idea of Moseley village in Birmingham as best of city life but country too and easy still to London if ever I miss it.

It's just doing it and making that move, so many what ifs

I just wondered if anyone was brace enough to leave the big smoke and any positives or worse, negatives?

oldandhappy

Left Southern London 2000 having lived in Croydon/Wallington and worked in Central London to Bexhill on Sea near to Eastbourne not so far from Brighton. Had a great life there until we found the traffic getting just too much for us...Property is cheap in comparison to London Crime is much much lower...you can dress anyhow and nobody takes any notice of you!!!!. If the coast is a draw then great if its city life you still yearn for most of all then probably not a good move for you....Weather pattern is very good...now that is a bonus....regards Dianne

AnotherJoe

you can dress anyhow and nobody takes any notice of you!!!!.
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LOL. As if the denizens of London are the epitome of style and tut at people not wearing the latest fashion.

Lolly88

I used to live in London during my uni days and now live in Moseley in Birmingham. I would definitely recommend the move but then I've never been a huge fan of living in London. I often take day trips to London to visit family/friends and for days out and it doesn't take long at all.

moneyistooshorttomention

Well - I understand personally about "traffic" getting to you. It was getting to me in my previous location - but I wasn't actually contributing to said "traffic" - as I don't have any transport of my own.

So - that was one of the (positive) reasons I moved - because I'm not contributing to "traffic" then I didn't see why I should suffer from "traffic" and I'm obviously fully entitled to complain about (other peoples) "traffic".

I'll be generous/positive and think that others complaining about "traffic" are also not contributing to the problem personally.

I am now living in an area where people do indeed "dress anyhow and no-one takes any notice" of you - so I do know what is meant by that and just take the positive from that. Being no-one seems to concern themselves with how I dress - which is just as well (in view of the fact I'm still a little overweight at the moment - so looking more than a little tatty whilst waiting to be back to my "proper weight" and I can buy some new clothes at last:rotfl:).

I do recall a comment from someone in my last area (ie a small city) of "The locals here are so tatty and I hope all of this (ie development going on here) will make them smarten themselves up". Hello.....I was a "local" there and most of us didn't want the blimmin' development going on there...but our local Councilllors thought they knew better/were being pressurised from afar to agree to development:eek::mad:

Guest101

Anyone leave London for better and if so where?

- literally anywhere else.

t0rt0ise

I found when living up north.. Lincoln and Liverpool that people were judging what you wore. Down here in London and also Cambridge and Canterbury where I've lived, nobody could care less. It's a weird difference. I wouldn't have believed it I hadn't experienced it.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

I lived in Moseley as a student. I don't know what you are comparing it to, but it's not "country" in any shape or form.

Lolly88

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

I lived in Moseley as a student. I don't know what you are comparing it to, but it's not "country" in any shape or form.

I think the monthly farmers market, parks, hipsters and bohemians make people feel it's 'country' like.

Gigervamp

I'm an ex Londoner. Born and lived in South London until I left in '99.

I have no regrets leaving. I now live in Wales, but in between lived in Maidstone and Stoke.

London is no longer the city I loved, so I say go for it.

TiddlyPom

I left London for Cornwall 15 years ago. I fully understood and came to terms with the fact that my income would drop by almost two thirds by doing this.
It was difficult adjusting early on from being used to people everywhere around me in London to a rural location where countryside was the view from the window, but I don't regret it at all now.

People are much friendlier, the pace of life is slower and there's always somewhere to go and see.
I was in my late 30s when I moved. I don't think it would have suited me so well if I was much younger.