Places to live

[MarkF]

The Lake District is my dream place to live in. Great pubs, cycling and walking.

My nightmare would be Blackpool

I cycled from Blackpool prom to Morecambe a few weeks ago, I got lost on the way back, (how, with the sea to one side I don't know) and entered Blackpool from the SE, there were some lovely parks and leafy Victorian suburbs, another world, but only half a mile from the tackiness. Fleetwood is just plain weird.

My top place to live would be York. I love it there. I kick myself regularly that we didn't take the plunge a few years ago and move.

York is a lovely place to live, if it was hot & had a beach then I'd retire there.

 

[steveindenmark]

I am Yorkshire originally but have lived all over the UK. I have been in Denmark for the past 15 years.

If I came back it would need to be to a very small cottage in the highlands with a garden.

But have you seen the prices.

 

[marshmella]

I love living in Lichfield. Great cycling with lots of lanes and not much traffic on them. A variety of cycling clubs nearby. A station on the west coast main line and a suburban station to Birmingham. Good road links, cheap house prices, a thriving town centre with attractions such as the cathedral and the Samuel Johnson birthplace museum and a sense of community. I can get to my folks in Leeds in under two hours, to London in one hour 15 mins and to the Peak District or Church Stretton for good hill walking in under an hour. The only downside is that it is a long way from the sea.

Yes Lichfield is lovely. Parked up and followed route 54 to Burton last week. Nice ride.

 

[swee'pea99]

Could be worse. Could be one bus and a weekly pub...

Cycling down to Lands End in my teens, we took a day off en route and a day trip out from the Youth Hostel. Round lunchtime the weather took a dramatic turn for the worse, to the point that we ended up asking in the local shop when the next bus back was. 'Wednesday,' they said, not without a certain relish...

 

[Bollo]

I was a RAF kid so spent most of my childhood shuffling up and down the east coast. Northumberland and the North Yorkshire Moors were beautiful growing up. I've settled in Winchester and probably won't move now. It's a tiny and friendly city and there are lanes aplenty for riding - south for the New Forest and coast, east-west for downland and north for some more serious bumps. The drivers are about as considerate as you're going to find in the UK. The only downside is Hampshire CC's love affair with surface dressing - they'd gravel your living room if you gave them a chance.

I have after 30 years aquired the taste, just not liking the flavour as much as I used too. There is a huge cycling scene going on in these parts, but the road conditions leave a lot to be desired.

I sometimes take a bike up on family visits and the roads are not special I grant you. Unlike down here where there's a spiderweb of back lanes, a lot of the villages around Lincoln seem to be one-road-in, one-road-out, so they get all the heavy farm and haulage traffic that chews up the road. The local driving style is rapid as well. Still, a trip to the Giant shop in Doddy usually helps the local economy