Where do you live and do you like it or not

[User169]

My sis moved there. Sez it's 'like Croydon without the glamour'. Last time I mentioned that, someone here posted that their sis calls it Basinggrad.

 

[Lee_M]

62 years is quite a while.

I would miss walking along the south bank after a trip to the theatre and having a beer/meal.

Drinking around Shoreditch on a Friday night.

Bands at the O2 and other Lodon venues.

Cycling out towards Epping

Catching the last train, the vomit comet home from Liverpool Street after a good drink and a visit to Brick Lane.

I reckon you have a different view from me on whats nice

be boring if we all liked and went to the same places though - not to mention busy!

and Cycling to Epping, you probably pass within 20 feet of my house!

 

[mark st1]

Leafy Berkshire in the Queens back garden quiet peaceful good transport links to stick the bike on the train for a 25 minute journey for a Sunday London ride. The same line is a 2 hour 15 minute journey for my wife to visit her parents in Devon . Surrounded by pan flat roads which go for miles and miles,close to Legoland which the boy loves excellent schools,good shopping in either Slough or Reading. Not blessed with amazing lbs's though even though there is quite a few about so thats the only thing i would change other than that happy as Larry and have no plans on moving anywhere.

 

[Melonfish]

NE warrington. its not too bad i guess, greener than most places but i'd love to be really out in the country if i'm honest.

 

[MontyVeda]

Lancaster; the little city... nice castle, nice georgean architecture, nice river, nice canal, a few good bars, restaurants and take-aways... shopping is crap though, and seeing a half decent band play live usually means a trip to manchester. It's great for cycling, only 5 minutes from open countryside and within easy reach of the lakes, the dales and the bowland fells.

edit... and yes... i love it!

 

[kipster]

Basingstoke - Need I say more?

Me too! Well a suburb to the east that some call a village but have to agree with all you wrote.

 

[JtB]

A village orbiting a black hole (a.k.a Boringstoke).

 

[Dan J B]

Chichester with South Downs on the doorstep and Festival Of Speed this weekend

Dan

 

[fossyant]

Not bad in here south manchester. 10 mins and in the Peaks, I'm just a mile from a top cyclists cafe. Traffic ain't too great at rush hour, but thats not my concern Got the velodrome about 8 miles away and a great new urban MTB trail. Also got loads of natural off road routes too

 

[Longshot]

Guildford and it's great.

 

[MarkF]

North of Bradford nr Leeds/Bradford airport, love it. Can hit the canal or river 10 mins from my house, great cycling into the Dales or if I am feeling weedy, I can go to Skipton along the Aire Valley. Good cycle friendly trains too, I use them to hit the flatlands around York/Hull.

I make regular use of Leeds, Harrogate & York for culture and spend an awful lot of time in Saltaire, that is a great place cycle to and relax or.......... booze. As long as Leeds exists I am happy because Bradford centre, unfortunately, provides pretty much no attractions.

 

[PaulB]

Dartmoor, me. It's a palatial place alright and if I behave myself, keep my nose clean and all that, they'll move me to a double cell and I won't have to put up with Burpy McFarty over there for too much longer. Still, musn't grumble.

 

[marknotgeorge]

I like Derby. It's big enough to have just about everything you need, which includes RF Potts - an indispensable little shop if you want to connect one electrical device to another - yet small enough that the countryside is never far away. It's close to the Peak District and the National Forest, as well as the road network for places further afield, ansd there's lots of parks.Diesel's relatively cheap too...
Downsides? Well, it's too small for a John Lewis, and Westfield extended the main shopping centre just at the start of the recession, which means that there's a fair few empty shops about elsewhere in the city. There's a few derelict buildings about, too. And where I live is an area of Edwardian terraces close to the University, so there's too many cars about. And the local Baptist church want to build a new community centre by building houses on their land, which means even more cars...

 

[Risex4]

Exeter, born and bred.

Love it.

Growing provincial City with all the expected stuff but none of the big city hassle.
I can be in the City centre and walk 15 minutes in any direction and be in rolling countryside.
I have access to some of the best rural scenery going. The beach is a 25 minute one way, Dartmoor 25 minutes the other.
Said countryside hosts some of the best little villages and pubs. I'm still discovering now.
Great cultural history to explore locally and not too far afield.

The only con is nightlife is a bit flat, but as I'm now post 30, thats a shrinking concern.

 

[matthat]

West Somerset, where I'm spoiled for choice as far as cycling is concerned. I'm surrounded by some amazing and varied countryside in all directions: the Quantock Hills, the Brendon Hills and Exmoor, the Blackdown Hills, Devon, Dorset, and the Somerset Levels and Moors all right on my doorstep or within easy reach by bike. My local village has got some excellent services, including a superb butcher's. And my landlords are brilliant and regularly dog sit for me when I go off gallivanting on the bike.

On the downside, Taunton is a dump (I saw today that even the pawnbroker's is having a closing down sale) and the disease of horribly-coloured, sardine-tin, identikit housing developments has got a stranglehold on the county.

I used to like taunton!! That was my weekly escape from butlins when I used to work there!