Do you like where you live?

Love it - lucky to live in a nice area, in a little(ish) town in Dorset, which actually has a town centre worth going to, nice mix of independent shops etc and some corking places to eat. Have some lovely farm shops nearby, with incredible produce, and less than 20 minutes away from Poole for any larger shops. Best move we made!

Only drawback is the tourist traffic brings the roads to near gridlock at times, but you can negate some of that, taking the back lanes
 
I hate where I locally live. It's a horrible dirty, deprived area. Even though we live on a nice street. The area gets nothing in terms of infrastructure etc.

But I really like Wales. Wish I had moved years earlier. So much to do.

Would still like to emigrate but with life and my poor dogs health it just would be impossible.

I keep having thoughts about selling the house, buying a rental and living in a van.

Been off work for a few weeks now and I love having all the time. But with the dog etc and a car in only able to do very short trips.



But mentally it's really really hard to break from the "standard life". Really. I'd rather live somewhere for a few months then move. I'm a true explorer type.

So yes it's been occupying my thoughts a lot recently.


Right now.. With no job, lots of time to go exploring I can't remember last time I was this happy. I absolutely know if I won 500k or something I'd retire immediately.
Probably even 250k
 
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Yes, very much so. Mainly because of my neighbours, as we live in a cul-de-sac, so we pretty much know everyone around us, and get-together often.

Nearest town is Basildon though, which has some negatives.
 
Yes, I've lived abroad and moved about. Whilst fun, nothing feels like the UK.

Plus I live in the good part of the UK ;)
 
I love where I live.

I love the flat open land and the lack of people. My commute is less than 10 minutes, great neighbours, 10 gig broadband and some of the hottest summers in the country. Beach is 40 minutes from my door step too.

I don't know how long it is going to last though. Solar farms popping up everywhere and they want to build bloody great pylons over our countryside to feed the mess down south. We are fighting it but Miliband most likely got too many brown envelopes up his bum.

Everyone knows it is a grift so they can fill the farmland with solar. Having the cabling going down the sea wouldn't allow that.

It is horrible watching your country become ruined and I naively thought up here I would stay away from it all.
 
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As ocuk forums most northern northerner, I think still.
65° 49′ 32″ N, 21° 41′ 26″ E
I don't mind where I live. It's certainly not London but I'm glad I got the chance to leave and effectively start a fresh and reinvent my self.

I've got an "ok" wife (lol) a typical ok little red house with a lovely big garden an ok job the weather's ok in winter and ok in summer.

It's has been nice being a bit of a novelty but there's a huge international green electric iron ore smelting factory going up down the road now and they're predicting at least 2000 foreign entrepreneurs being here to help build it and run it.

The town will become a complete **** hole for 3 years at least. A rapey, drunken, prostitution riddled wild west frontier town.
At least I'll be able to sell my bum hole for a bit more than todays prices.

In all seriousness it's going to change here.... Not for the better of the locals.
Everything will skyrocket especially housing and renting which are seeing ludicrous price hikes. Scrupulous landlords asking already 5x more going for long term rentals.

It's a military town so I expect it's got at least one MIRV/warhead targeted on it My hospital I work at has been designated a strategic target by Russia too so one way or another I'll hopefully be vaporised quickly.

People here still excitingly comment if they saw a police car or blue lights at the end of the day, like it was an event.... It's so much nicer than London lol.

You are all southern fairies.
 
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I find where I live 'ok'. I live in classic suburbia where nothing is close and everything revolves around the 'mall'.

Where: I live in Auckland, NZ in a suburb out the west side. Its pleasant enough but too low density really for my liking. Without repeating Mags Wiki extract it does offer beautiful beaches and pretty good weather (espeically for a manc that is used to endless rain). Moved here in 2010 as the missues wanted to head home and its not a bad place to bring up to sprogs either.
 
I love where I live, we're on the edge of some woods in a hamlet. We're detached and our neighbours are great.

Annoyingly the towns nearby aren't great in terms of the choice of places to eat and drink go, a lot of places have closed down and nowhere is really walkable. Thankfully there's some great country pubs about 15 mins drive away, and although I said there's nothing walkable, there is this random gem of a restaurant 10 minute walk away that's unknown because it's inside another facility that the public wouldn't think of going to.
 
Grew up in Bristol, moved in with the misses 4 years ago to just outside the Forest of Dean.

Dislike - it’s like going back in time
 
I lived in Stafford since 1998 except for a 1 year placement in Bristol.

I like Stafford because it's well connected by rail. It's big enough to have most facilities (except for decent nightlife!) yet small enough that most of it is walkable. It has a decent new Odeon cinema, and there are talks of converting the old cinema into a music venue. 1 fairly big nightclub and 1 small one. Got the usual Weatherspoons, Yate's, Titanic, Marston's, Davenport and Greene King pubs, plus locals. Gardens and parks are well maintained and we have won Britain in Bloom a few times :p The high street (what's left open ofc) is the usual slew of charity shops, gambling shops, pawnbrokers, vapes, phone repairs, cafes and banks. We do have Peccadillos though, which is a quaint arty farty gift shop, run by nice people for decades and it recently moved to where the Body Shop used to be.

I'm fairly settled in Stafford now, but if there was another timeline, I would liked to have lived in Bristol for longer. My 1 year placement was in 2000-2001 with a decent nightlife for me at age 22 at the time. Clubbing (dance music) is making a bit of a comeback in the 2020s post-COVID, with some gigs geared towards us 40-something oldies and I've been club-hopping around the midlands like Nottingham, Coventry, Leicester/Coalville and Lichfield to catch some of these events. I started a thread on Bristol not long ago and realised that it still has a buzzing nightlife, so I'm keen to go back there on city breaks.

Before 1998, I lived in a Shropshire village. It was good being a child there at the time with school mates, but then we all go to university or college, all going our separate ways. When I go back to the village to see Mum, it's a bit slow there now. So the life there is a bit slow for me now.
 
Area yes.... Street yes... Neighbours no :(.
I have lived in a fair few places and never had all 3, guess I need to live in the middle of nowhere to make me happy.
 
I live in a very small village, it's nice and quiet with woods to walk around just a 10 minute walk up the road, I like it a lot but then I'm used to living in the proper sticks so it's quite built up to me! Only a 5 minute walk to a small town so pretty handy really.
 
Yes, I do. I was born and raised in South East London (Lee/Eltham) - Worked in London for 25 years, moved to Rochester, Kent with my wife (continued to work in London) and now live in York, in a detached house, in just over an acre of land with a gated driveway which featured on the BBC program Escape to the country. We’ve been here since Oct 23. If you open the driveway gate, walk down the driveway, all you can see is the Yorkshire dales. Village is tiny, with a pub, famous chippy and post office.

That’ll do.
 
Yes. I live in Vienna, capital city of Austria - a village of around 2 million people.

What is good:
It's very safe
It's quite clean
Everything works
Public transport is excellent and costs 1 Euro a day for unlimited travel
Work life balance is taken seriously
It's beautiful (both the city itself and the surrounding country)
Great access to the rest of Europe
Rent for a capital city is very affordable
Weather is generally stable

What is not good:
Taxation is excruciating
I miss many UK foods and products
Small market means poor competition and high prices for most things
Motoring is extortionately expensive
It's a bit boring and very socially conservative
Lots of old fashioned red tape and rules
Politically unstable
Can't get away with anything compared to the UK

Overall it's really good though, and quality of life, especially in the summer, is excellent.
 
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Esbjerg, Denmark calling.

I preferred the east coast of Jylland but the beaches are nicer westside. I do like living in DK, good quality of life, clean streets, excellent beer, health service working and funded, super easy into lots of Europia. Downsides are lack of the 'pub', pickled herring.

I do miss Wimbledon - womble forever :D
 
Not recently because the local Housing are getting back all the older people's house's who have passed away and filling them with druggies, the street is declining rapidly.
Such a shame, I lived here my whole life and in the last 5 years I see more drug dealers than people I know walking down the street.
Reported it all but nothing ever happens and Housing say they cannot evict because the people are venerable and have children. Load of **** :mad:
 
I like where i live (the general area) huge town within a mile distance and everything you could pretty much need around you within close distance.

Do i like living in the UK in general though...No lol, If i could emigrate id love to move to Cyprus.
 
The overall town not so much. Too many schools all within touching distance of each other makes the town centre a war zone during lunch and after school.

The area I live in I like. Only issue is neighbours downstairs, nice enough couple but have full blown arguments frequently.
 
California needs to lobby for independence/devolution now ?

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exactly that - its a red and blue pill choice (the multi-millionaires that reeves is tryiing to keep in the country/UK, definitely on the blue pills )

Cambridgeshire current location : the antithesis of
C'ote Dazur : climate, outdoor-life, beaches, mountains, food, health services, fun driving, don't need foreign holidays.
 
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