If you could live anywhere in the UK...

mufi

borkid wrote: »

Check it out in the summer holidays though it can get quite busy with holiday makers. Same as parts of north Norfolk.

But the joy is that the villages on the Broads are real working/living places all year round, so nothing like the theme park living in some other areas, where they're dead in the winter.

We just avoid Wroxham (and Holt and the North Norfolk coast) over the 6 week summer school holidays; no great hardship. It's a lovely place to live.

ibizafan_2

I’ve always fancied living near the sea, having been to college in Brighton back in the early 70s. However, I’ve never come across the perfect seaside town to be honest. Also, my OH doesn’t want to move away from Warwickshire where his family all live. Actually, it’s not a bad place to live as it’s easy to get more or less anywhere. We’re very close to major motorways, 30 minutes from Birmingham Airport, and trains to London are frequent with journey times of 45 minutes. My son provides my bolthole in London as he owns a 2 bed flat in Clapham. I’m pretty content, but never say never to the seaside home!

Waterlily24

Quite happy where we are at the moment but anywhere rural really. We've lived in villages near towns Bromley, Portsmouth, Southampton and Bognor Regis and liked it when we were there. We were very near the sea at the last three but must admit I'm not bothered about living near the sea. We later moved up to South Lincolnshire and had a lovely rural bungalow with a large garden but we wanted a bigger garden so moved a few miles away to North Cambridgeshire - it's more rural here and we live in what's classed as countryside just outside the village.


I don't drive so when hubby worked it was a bit difficult as the bus service wasn't very good - it doesn't exist now but hubby is retired so it's OK.

Caraway90

Lovely to see some Norfolk love on here I love living in Norfolk with its mix of the coast and the Borads, but I also love hills and the dramatic scenery you get in area like the Peak District! Also, when you want to leave Norfolk it takes forever, and there's only one easily accessible city.
So somewhere hilly with beautiful scenery but also good transport links to a couple of cities. If such a place exists!

ripplyuk

Sudbury in Derbyshire. It’s quiet, pretty and within day-trip distance of an abundance of National Trust properties which would suit me perfectly. Alton Towers isn’t far away either. Also I really like the accent

I’m from Northern Ireland. It’s a bit rubbish here, especially the weather.

Splatfoot

If money was no object..... hmmmm. A beautiful village in West Sussex somewhere I think. I already live in West Sussex but on the edge of a large town. Then I'd also like a second home in Ceredigion somewhere, perhaps near Aberaeron. I can dream.

pinkshoes

I grew up in North Lincolnshire and really miss the space.

I'm now near the cotswolds and everything is so compact, crowded and expensive.

Would love to move back to somewhere less crowded, where you can drive for more than 60 seconds without reaching another village.

Durham is lovely.

Slinky

Made our move from the middle of the country to Suffolk a couple of weeks ago. We're towards the edge of a small town, but 5 minutes walk takes us into the town cntre which has nice shops, or to the leisure centre, or to the river. There's a station about 7 minutes away and a bus stop about 2 minutes. It's all quite flat for if we struggle to walk in old age. We're 8 miles from the coast and the same distance from a large shopping town. We have a park at the end of our street and a pub and doctor's surgery round the corner. The house isn't perfect, but the location is just right for us, so we will adapt the house to make it work better for us.

Davesnave

pimento wrote: »

I think you've just described Exeter.

Trouble is, many have found out now and the city's ballooning, but it's still OK, as cities go.

I'm very happy with my few acres of middle Devon. It's about 50 mins into Exeter, if we're lucky, but we can swing many ways from here and shop in any of half a dozen different towns.

We may catch a bus outside the gate, get a train in 5 minutes or be in the Health Centre in the same amount of time, yet there are no street lights and the nearest real supermarket is 11 miles. Living in the country can be full of anomalies like that!

If we had more £££, we'd probably stay within the same sort of area, off the tourist trails and away from the coast, but maybe slightly closer to civilisation and the M5. It's hard to get the balance right, but there are pockets of solid communities where crime and second homes are low. The Culm Valley would be a good example.....


Oh, beggar, now I've done it!

borkid

mufi wrote: »

But the joy is that the villages on the Broads are real working/living places all year round, so nothing like the theme park living in some other areas, where they're dead in the winter.

We just avoid Wroxham (and Holt and the North Norfolk coast) over the 6 week summer school holidays; no great hardship. It's a lovely place to live.

Same as in south Norfolk and no crowds in summer. In striking distance of Bury as well.