If you could live anywhere in the UK...

Smodlet

Murphybear wrote: »

I was born and brought up in Hampshire and now live in Dorset. Both lovely places


We lived in Devon for 14 years and if I had loads of money would move within easy reach of Budleigh Salterton. It’s got the best croquet club in Europe, oh the problems of retirement :rotfl:

... And the best stones for water features... I think they're protected now or something.

goodwithsaving

I want to return to South Devon, even if money is an object or if it wasn't. It has a freedom that is difficult to explain and it's home, I feel I can cope with anything when I'm there. Alternatively I'd go back to Cornwall and be in a village near Falmouth, but it is a long way to the M5.

Equally there are some stunning parts of Somerset, the Cotswold edges and Wales, and if I had a significant amount of money I wouldn't say no to a pied a terre in central London either.
I think the problem is, which I've come to realise, as we move around and explore new places, we leave a little part of our hearts in each! I have no desire to return to Hants though....

phoebe1989seb

BeattieOG wrote: »

davidmcn wrote: »

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...

We've only been here 18 months - and our only DS is grown up, living in Brighton so no school-age kids to worry about - so it's early days for us.

DH meets a few (mainly older) Welsh speakers in the course of the business he set up six months ago, so is gradually perfecting his pronunciation and between us we're learning a little but intend on picking up enough to scrape by. I don't work - unless you call full time gardening/DIY work, lol - so no real requirement as such but we both feel it's respectful to make an effort, language wise.

To be honest, most of the people we've encountered outside of DH's work don't speak Welsh themselves......

halogen

I would love to live in Shetland but it's just so isolated in terms of resources and access that it wouldn't be practical

Waterlily24

Smodlet wrote: »

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.

lol I suppose that really it's not that much different but we live outside the village in 'countryside'. We are only about 4/5 miles from where we used to live. We are nearer a town here though - about 8 miles away.

Smodlet

halogen wrote: »

I would love to live in Shetland but it's just so isolated in terms of resources and access that it wouldn't be practical

But you'd have Up Helly Aa every year (bloody tourists pretending to be Vikings)... I hear they have lots of murders too.

mufi

BeattieOG wrote: »

^^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!

After what I said yesterday about never going to Wroxham in the school holidays, we're just back from sitting at a riverside hotel there, drinking coffee, eating scones, and watching the holidaymakers trying to get their boats under the bridge.

It has many amusements, even in high season.

zoot_ze

Not technically part of the UK but I'd love to move to Guernsey.

Cornwall would be a close second but I don't think I'd ever be able to afford it!

Tammykitty

I love Northern Ireland, born here and still live here.


I live in a rural coastal area, with mountains, sea and forest parks. My village has a pub/restaurant - and it's 3 mile into a town with supermarket(Tesco, Lidl), good selections of pubs and restaurants small selection of shops etc - can get most thing you need here..


Also About 15 mins drive from a larger town with a small hospital, leisure centre, bigger shops etc


I work in a hospital about a 30minute journey away (officially a city - more like a town though).


The massive downside is public transport - it is available and I can get to work by bus if I have too, but it takes planning.


However, I am guessing you probably don't want to move from Britain to NI.
One of my favorite areas in England in Lancashire - recently spend a few days in a village about 5/6 mile outside Lancaster - easy access to the M6 and yet it felt so remote.


Went to the Lake District for a few days too - and it was lovely, but very busy.

cajef

Slithery wrote: »

Norfolk is remote, Cornwall is in a different league

But I would not live anywhere else, fantastic coastal walks and views and mild climate plus super fast FTTP broadband.:)