Where to live in UK

I loved Bristol and the surrounding areas. Close enough to London, close enough to the south coast. Beautiful countryside. Great cycling. Clevedon or Cheddar? Many, many charming little villages as well. I'm set here in Vancouver, but would move back to Bristol (I lived in Clifton Village) in a heartbeat if personal circumstances allowed it.

Hi David

How much does your work affect where you live? How much access do you want to the countryside, or oppositely to city life. Are you looking to live in a village, town, edge of a city or city centre? Do family, children, access to schools, etc. have a bearing?

I must say that from your list I think the West Country looks very appealing. If you have some affinity with the area it is lovely.

I think Cambs is likely to be much more expensive to rent or buy in due to its proximity to London. If having access to London is a criteria for concerts, nightlife, the general hub-bub then Cambs would be good.

Leicestershire does seem a bit of an odd one out from the list, I don't see any specific appeal of the area, unless you have family or friends there already.

If you want beautiful countryside the North West, around The Lakes is especially beautiful, but far from any major city, so fairly cut off. Absolutely stunning though.

I see London is not on your list, and although I would say it is great place to live for part of your life, I think for a lot of people there comes a time when you want to get away from it. Great for career and concerts, not so great the size of place you get for your money.

Obviously being from Yorkshire I would say that is a great place to live, but then all Yorkshiremen would. More seriously though, I when I lived in London I did find coming back to the place I knew as child offered a kind of relaxation that I didn't find elsewhere, a knowledge of the place and familiarity with certain ways of doing things. When work offered the opportunity to move back here, I did and am now very settled.

I am sure most people will say where they live is the best place, and for them it often is.

Don't do it.....

Jim

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Leicestershire does seem a bit of an odd one out from the list, I don't see any specific appeal of the area, unless you have family or friends there already.

Apart from the obvious NAIN reasons, the city is an excellent place for curries too.

A central area reasonable access to London, East Anglia and across country to Wales. Grafton Water and Derbyshire dales not far away.
Silverstone and Rockingham, Santa Pod and several smaller club circuits in the vicinity too if one were into motor sport.

I think I'll move there my self!

Come to Leicestershire and support the Tigers. It has lovely countryside and is the centre of England

Sussex and Surrey are great places to live.

dave,

As Jim says, don't do it!

The only benefit I can see, is that the ££ is probably (*) cheaper to buy with your Aus $ than when you left 4 years ago. Give it another 4 years and the ££ will be worth even less.

Cheers

Don

(*) the £ has dropped against the $US and $CND so i'm gussing it has dropped against the Aus $ as well - but I don't know this for sure.

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Originally posted by Don Atkinson:
so i'm gussing it has dropped against the Aus $ as well - but I don't know this for sure.

the £ has dropped big time on the aussie $. A few years ago £1 was getting me 2.35 dollars. Recently it went down to 1.7 dollars.

David good luck with your move. West Country sounds lovely to me and as Oliver says Sussex and Surrey are great as well.

I'm an Essex boy, in Cambridgeshire, have lived in a fair few places in the UK, and would live in N Yorkshire tomorrow if we could both work and not worry about family. Up the road from The Nag's Head in Pickhill would be perfect!

Tony

You could probably make a case for or against pretty much anywhere!

Give us something to help narrow it down:
will you be working? If so, in what kind of work?
do you mind commuting far?
what sort of leisure activities?
is there family to consider or are you moving on your own?
sadly, most important of all ... how much do you intend spending on house/apartment?

Dear All,

I am now even more confused.

Even more places to consider.

I work in health care and the NHS is freezing posts.

I am single with no history to drag around. Just my many hifi systems. None NAIM.

Want to buy a house with no mortgage and live in a pretty part of country. So cheap and pretty.

Sussex and Surrey are out. But IOW is in my price range and so is gloucs norfolk and suffolk and devon.

I will have a trip round to have look see.

David

Davo,

Start your search from the Malvern hills and spiral out from there as the East Herefordshire/South Worcs/North Glouceshire area is beautiful, cheapish, close to London/Bham/Bristol and has a relatively low density of population.

I moved here 8 years ago from Windsor and would want to return. In fact my mother who has lived in Windsor since 1960 is moving this way.

Jono

Dungeness/Berwick-upon-Tweed

York; unutterably beautiful city with wonderful countryside nearby, plus Fountains Abbey.

From what I have remembered about your job, it is one that transfers easily into the private sector - so why not look at the web site magazine of your profession and search for people retiring and selling up their house and practice

or go to an area where your profession is under served by the NHS due to distance and / or shortage and set up practice.

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or go to an area where your profession is under served by the NHS due to distance and / or shortage and set up practice.

He is. The UK.

What about Kent? There's some lovely countryside, lots of historic buildings, pretty good rail access and close to the channel crossings for the odd dash over to France.

Simple answer. Live in London. Load of work, hifi dealers and decent pubs. Job done.