NICEST Town to Live in if you want Weather/Outdoor stuff?

[Racing roadkill]

Or you could say.

"They don't like it Upham"

I deliberately didn’t.

 

[ColinJ]

[QUOTE 5230691, member: 9609"]scotlands a big country with very varied weather, in the SE corner where I am we average around 25" of rain annually which is pretty much the same as London and the home counties. and quite a bit less than the UKs average of 34" per year.

OK it can be a little darker in the winter months but we make up for that during the summer when its light till nearly 11.
I'm heading out now and wont be back till 9:15, won't be needing lights[/QUOTE]
Ah - I am used to the Oban area, where the Scottish side of my family are based - 66 inches of rain a year!

Oh, and the midges ...

The extra daylight in the summer is certainly nice though.

 

[Salty seadog]

Dunstable.

Sure you said it was the Manston road. Mind you, you were there not me ....

 

[Drago]

I was born out on the Manston Road. Well, not actually in the road, bur in a house. Twas suggesting dunstable for the OP, although he might prefer Watford.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Poole is nice. You've got the New Forest and Dorset Coast on your doorstep, which are both excellent for cycling and other outdoor activities. And the Isle of Wight is just a short ferry ride away. Southampton is close enough if you need to go to Ikea or whatever.

Only down side is you could end up with my sister for a neighbour.

Totally agree! I grew up in Poole and thanks to crazy old geology you can see all sorts of sights on a single bike ride forest sand dunes chalk cliffs swamp Heath to name but a few

 

[snorri]

[QUOTE 5230826, member: 45"]The Isle of Wight.[/QUOTE]
I was walking along a street in the Isle of Wight and was entertained by a flasher, she was ok.
I'd never seen a flasher before and have never seen one since.

 

[Drago]

[QUOTE 5230924, member: 45"]I met a bloke on a cross-channel ferry a few weeks ago who lives in France. He commutes to Reading by motorbike every week, sleeping on the ferry both ways. He seemed to be making it work.[/QUOTE]

My old feller lives outside Ashford, and used to commute to Paris daily. He reckoned it was a fair bit quicker than getting to Canary Wharf. The OP could live in France and take his pick of terrain, and commute to the UK daily if he needed to.

 

[Hill Wimp]

It's definitely got a lot more chichi in the last few years. Not that this is a bad thing - it has been very run down for a long time. Getting a half-decent rail service has been a massive boost for the town. I'd say Deal now is like Whitstable was 20 years ago, before it started getting really trendy. We moved to Whitstable 16 years ago, when it was still on the up, but I think it has past its peak now, and all the proper cool kids have long since moved on from Whitstable and started colonising other places - Herne Bay, Margate and indeed Deal.

And I'm only calling it poncey in an affectionately joking way, so don't be offended!

I know what you mean

I was born and bred here then moved away for 26 years. Really pleased how it's progressed and the DFL s ( down from London ) are kept in check.They tend to be older than the cool and trendies that swooped on Whitstable and they spend a lot of money in the town at the weekends so it certainly helps.

It's also got a rather wealthy and cultured gay community who bring quite a bit of style to the area.

 

[Drago]

So you're a Maiden of Kent? I'm a Man of Kent. Not like the inbred weakling surrender monkey Kentish folk from West of the Medway.

 

[perplexed]

Has anybody mentioned Bournemouth?

No, the OP isn't dead yet...

Sheffield for the outdoor life - edge of the Peaks and no end of foreigners from down south have moved here for the climbing and the added free bonus of being more than 100 miles from that London!

 

[Bonefish Blues]

My old feller lives outside Ashford, and used to commute to Paris daily. He reckoned it was a fair bit quicker than getting to Canary Wharf. The OP could live in France and take his pick of terrain, and commute to the UK daily if he needed to.

Indeed, I suggested this on OP's thread in another place. Lots of people do this now

 

[Bollo]

On Bournemouth....

No, the OP isn't dead yet...

Oooh, Bournemouth really isn't like that. The town proper has always been more dynamic and interesting than its standard image, but that whole coastal strip from Christchurch along to Poole has changed hugely over the last 20 or more years. The combination of financial services companies, the University and younger eastern Europeans working in the seasonal holiday trade make it quite edgy in places. The megabucks developments around Sandbanks are also spreading along the coast. There's also real poverty - Bournemouth recently made the top 10 heroin hotspots in the UK, which would surprise no-one who goes there regularly. There's even a sizeable Hassidic Jewish community. I like Bournemouth and I'm a very frequent visitor, but I wouldn't want to live there.

 

[mjr]

[QUOTE 5231285, member: 9609"]here are 46 places that need avoiding like the plague
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43964341[/QUOTE]
But many places are not on that list primarily because their councils don't monitor PM2.5 at the moment in the places where there are most traffic - as far as I can tell, that includes King's Lynn, which has a monitoring station frequently exceeding the WHO guidelines for PM10 but the only ones measuring PM2.5 are on the quayside, far away from major roads.

If anything, you actually want somewhere the WHO reported on as below the limits - outside that, air pollution is a national problem which the national government is utterly failing to address and I think has repeatedly failed to convince the courts that it has a plan worth the name (the Client Earth cases). If this is a big concern, I guess it suggests moving to France as suggested earlier - they're still not good but seem to be doing more than the UK.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Nobody's going to move there now if they like a bit of a booze.

Bit of smuggling across the border - it's not that far

 

[Spoked Wheels]

No, the OP isn't dead yet...

Sheffield for the outdoor life - edge of the Peaks and no end of foreigners from down south have moved here for the climbing and the added free bonus of being more than 100 miles from that London!

You need to update your impression of Bournemouth mate Bournemouth it's nothing like it used to be, a place to retire. It really is a great place to live, you have clean beaches - Blue Flag award winner every year, low crime, some very good schools, the New Forest and Purbec within cycling distance, a vibrant night life with pubs, restaurants and night clubs, and a fast train to London would get you there in under 90 minutes or so.