Places to live

[Dec66]

[QUOTE 4499460, member: 9609"]Grim[/QUOTE]
That's a shame... You would have been like the Pied Piper, leading ladies across those clifftops...

 

[welsh dragon]

I am happy to live here in the foothills of the Cambrian mountain's in Powys. Probably the least inhabited county in the whole of Wales. I lived in Birmingham for decades and would never live there or any other city.

 

[gavroche]

I love living in North Wales: great scenery, clean air, nice people. I would hate to live in a big city. Used to live in Southern England and brought up my two children there. No way would I go back there, too much of a rat race. My two children would not go back there either, they both love it up here. We left Sussex in 1984 with no regrets.

 

[User482]

I'm pretty happy where I am. I've always thought that Bristol is the perfect size: large enough to have the culture, amenities and attractions of a proper city, but small enough to be riding in lovely countryside within 20 minutes of leaving my house.

 

[numbnuts]

I would love to live around Swanage area for the fishing and Studland Beach

 

[Dec66]

I'm pretty happy where I am. I've always thought that Bristol is the perfect size: large enough to have the culture, amenities and attractions of a proper city, but small enough to be riding in lovely countryside within 20 minutes of leaving my house.

I like Bristol, too. For many of the reasons I like Liverpool. There are a lot of similarities between the two.

For me, however, it does lack that "crackle" I referred to. Glasgow has it, to a degree, but Liverpool's is more manic.

 

[User482]

I like Bristol, too. For many of the reasons I like Liverpool. There are a lot of similarities between the two.

For me, however, it does lack that "crackle" I referred to. Glasgow has it, to a degree, but Liverpool's is more manic.

I don't know Liverpool that well, but in my experience there's a buzz to London, Manchester and Glasgow that we don't really have here. Bristol's more laid back, but that suits me fine.

 

[swee'pea99]

Born & bred Londoner me, and I've never imagined living anywhere else, though there are many parts of the country I like a lot - to visit. I do sometimes wonder why tho' - it's not like I can afford to take advantage of London's advantages. I thought about taking the family and a couple of the kids' friends out to the theatre recently which I would love to do. It would have come to about £300, and that's without transport or thimbles of organic vanilla ice-cream at £4 a pop.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Grew up in Kent, bounced around the world a bit and ended up in Warwick. I love the place and have no plans to move anywhere else despite my company trying to move me.

Whereabouts in Kent? I was born in Suffolk, brought up in Folkestone.

 

[Markymark]

Ok, London.

It's perfect for me. Love living here. It has become stupidly expensive but I am fortunate that it's not an issue although I'd hate to be starting out now. The variety of towns and centres within London gives so much. The mix of people, food, nightlife is exciting. Where I live is wonderful for kids - we have enormous parks within walking distance. Transport works well (unless you want to drive into central London but that's selfish). There's very little I'd change abut it. And as much as I like travelling to other places, it's only a small handful of cities in the world that can match (and only one in UK).

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've a soft spot for LLandudno, though I'm not sure I would want to live in the town itself, now I'm retired I recon the area would be nice to retire to. Unfortunately its unlikely to happen, my Good Lady wouldn't want to move away from the city she was born and brought up in.

 

[Milkfloat]

Whereabouts in Kent? I was born in Suffolk, brought up in Folkestone.

I am from a village near Herne Bay, i go back occasionally but do not miss the place too much. I do miss the sea though.

 

[ianrauk]

Ok, London.

It's perfect for me. Love living here. It has become stupidly expensive but I am fortunate that it's not an issue although I'd hate to be starting out now. The variety of towns and centres within London gives so much. The mix of people, food, nightlife is exciting. Where I live is wonderful for kids - we have enormous parks within walking distance. Transport works well (unless you want to drive into central London but that's selfish). There's very little I'd change abut it. And as much as I like travelling to other places, it's only a small handful of cities in the world that can match (and only one in UK).

In total agreement.

I live on the very outer edge of London.
A 40 minute rail journey and I am in Charing Cross. If I miss the last train then it's the rock n' roll night bus to get the drunken masses home.

I am 5 minutes cycling from some of the best cycling countryside the UK can offer in the Garden of England.
OK I have to put up with living in Orpington (Mrs Ian is an Orpingtonite), but that's mainly due to the price of houses where I wanted us to live (Wimbledon/Putney/Fulham) were we would of had to pay 2 or 3 times more for the same size house as we have now.

 

[Markymark]

In total agreement.

I live on the very outer edge of London.
A 40 minute rail journey and I am in Charing Cross. If I miss the last train then it's the rock n' roll night bus to get the drunken masses home.

I am 5 minutes cycling from some of the best cycling countryside the UK can offer in the Garden of England.
OK I have to put up with living in Orpington (Mrs Ian is an Orpingtonite), but that's mainly due to the price of houses where I wanted us to live (Wimbledon/Putney/Fulham) were we would of had to pay 2 or 3 times more for the same size house as we have now.

20 mins cycling to single track country roads where I am. Yet 30 mins cycle into central London.

 

[mjr]

I am just curious to know, if you could live anywhere in England, where would you live and for what reasons. While you are at it, where would you hate to live and why. Not necessarily for cycling reasons, I just would like to know where people consider great places to live.

I'm pretty happy here in West Norfolk, outside King's Lynn but linked to it by cycle track. The main drawback is I've not much family nearby and it's a relatively long journey from most places. It might be nice to move back to Somerset one day, but the cycling there is much harder in so many ways.

I would hate to live in London, Birmingham or Manchester - any big city come to that - because there is just too much hustle and bustle for me.

If I had to go to a city, I'd probably head back to Milton Keynes, for cycling reasons and it has OK train and coach links. I stumbled across videos like this and it reminds me that cycling there is about as close to Dutch as we've gotten in this country.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1SPa61DN6U

Lots of trees and very easy, as cycling should be. Ignore his spelling mistakes. Probably watch it at double-speed as not a lot happens other than some junctions, mostly OK but a few screwups. That's one of the more direct 1990s retrofit redways which are mostly alongside the even-numbered roads (H8 in that case). If you click around his other "red path journeys" videos, he also does a couple of trips parallel to odd-numbered roads (V7 in particular, which goes through the city centre) that are a lot more convoluted and difficult to use and maybe hints at why cycling didn't take off there as much as many people expected, although it's still above-average levels.