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If you could live anywhere in the UK...

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  • Mrs_Soup
    Mrs_Soup Posts: 1,154 Forumite
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    In a seaside town, but has to be right on the seafront. Town has to have a station though and other amenities. In theory up north so I could afford more but in reality used to living in south east. Used to have idea of holiday property like this but since brexit would prefer to buy holiday place in France to keep my place in Europe.
  • Smodlet
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    Waterlily24 wrote: »
    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.

    Crikey! You have found a bit of north Cambs more rural than S. Lincs? Interesting and, I would have thought, more expensive. I miss that area.
  • z1a
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    Bowness .
  • BeattieOG
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    davidmcn wrote: »
    Work as what though e.g. would you at least want to be within commuting distance of a reasonable-sized hospital? (which would enable you to rule out options like Barra...)

    Well we work in mental health so that limits how rural we can go to a certain degree but not to hospital only areas!
    onwards&upwards wrote: »
    If you want to make friends you’re best off heading north!

    I always think i’d like to live by the sea, so somewhere semi-rural enough to be green and not heavily polluted but within commuting distance of either Liverpool or Newcastle would be good. The Wirral maybe?

    Totally agree except for the commuting distance part - we really don't want to be commuting into a city so would love to be somewhere rural that we can work in/nearby
    phoebe1989seb wrote: »
    We both love our current location in very rural Carmarthenshire
    MobileSaver wrote: »
    For me, rural Wales is the dream I'm living...
    We looked at Wales too but wondered about the language as we have two school age kids... do you speak Welsh? I know English is widespread but they actively seek Welsh speakers for jobs in NHS...
    pinkteapot wrote: »
    We’ve done it! Moved in December from Essex to Cumbria purely for the love of it.
    Ooh might be picking your brains sometime if you don't mind. OH loves Cumbria
  • BeattieOG
    BeattieOG Posts: 29 Forumite
    sheramber wrote: »
    We did it 12 years ago.Retired and moved to the far north of Scotland. We lie in a rural Strath on a single track road . Our nearest neighbour is 1/2 mile away- apart from the sheep next door.
    This is OH's absolute dream but we worry about doing that move with two small kids :eek: definitely on the list though!
    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.
    ^^I'm so glad you said this - it has been our impression of the Broads but good to have it confirmed.

    It's so difficult to choose when there are so many beautiful places and no certainty about what it would be like really to live in any of them!
  • Slithery
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    BeattieOG wrote: »
    It's so difficult to choose when there are so many beautiful places...
    Yep. In a previous job I used to drive about 1000 miles every weekend delivering firearms all over the UK in mostly rural locations. Every county has something stunning - except London :)
  • BeattieOG
    BeattieOG Posts: 29 Forumite
    Slithery wrote: »
    Yep. In a previous job I used to drive about 1000 miles every weekend delivering firearms all over the UK in mostly rural locations. Every county has something stunning - except London :)
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: London has its own charm I think - not beautiful in the same way as the rural places, and not right for us, but can absolutely see why people love to live there.

    I'm surprised no-one has said Cornwall!
  • Smodlet
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    edited 2 August 2019 at 9:02AM
    Slithery wrote: »
    Yep. In a previous job I used to drive about 1000 miles every weekend delivering firearms all over the UK in mostly rural locations. Every county has something stunning - except London :)

    Delivering firearms? What a horrifying thought, at least to me.
  • Slithery
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    edited 1 August 2019 at 9:25PM
    Smodlet wrote: »
    Delvering firearms? What a horrifying thought, at least to me.
    The majority of it was shotguns for farmers and rifles for gamekeeping and competition shooting. ID and licenses fully checked at all times so all legal and above-board. Definitely one of my more interesting jobs though and I did get to drive the country end to end every few weeks without using the motorways much, the point of my post being that I can't think of anywhere in the country that I haven't driven within 30 miles of.
  • hb2
    hb2 Posts: 1,399 Forumite
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    I moved to Bournemouth 40 years ago and am now just down the road in Poole. It is a lovely place to live - but traffic can be very bad, especially in summer.
    It's not difficult!
    'Wander' - to walk or move in a leisurely manner.
    'Wonder' - to feel curious.
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