The place you'd most like to live in the UK.

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:53 am

John Johnson 1605 wrote:Harrogate

Good shout, Harrogate for Yorkshire. Ilkley would be good, too.

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 1:00 pm

I've lived in Harrogate and there are many restaurants, good bars and shops. But I just don't see why anyone would want to live in Ilkley. Full of arrogant snobs, very few shops, bars and restaurants.

KateR · Post by **KateR** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 1:34 pm

Central London, close to Tower/London Bridge but has to be overlooking the river, preferred loft type home

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 1:51 pm

Does Jersey count? If so a nice chateau overlooking st brelards bay would do me. With a swimming pool of course

Clarinetclaret · Post by **Clarinetclaret** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:04 pm

Close to home but I think Barley and Downham are beautiful.

claretinkorea · Post by **claretinkorea** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:15 pm

Quite like Richmond or Kew in London, somewhere along the river before you hit zone 2 or 3. Bristol is also lovely. If I moved back to the UK those would all be high on my list.

Man of Kent · Post by **Man of Kent** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 3:40 pm

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Canterbury Pstotto!! Are you sure?! Canterbury is one of the poshest places to live in Kent. Try living in Ashford, or Maidstone, Dartford or Bromley and you'd soon view your home city in perspective. I really think you must believe you are living in Canterbury but in reality you're living in one of those towns I mention above.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:01 pm

Man of Kent wrote:
Canterbury Pstotto!! Are you sure?! Canterbury is one of the poshest places to live in Kent. Try living in Ashford, or Maidstone, Dartford or Bromley and you'd soon view your home city in perspective. I really think you must believe you are living in Canterbury but in reality you're living in one of those towns I mention above.

Sister lived in Ashford and Maidstone. Back up here now. I never could take to kent, especially maidstone.

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:31 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Sister lived in Ashford and Maidstone. Back up here now. I never could take to kent, especially maidstone.

Canterbury may be nice, but if Pstotto is living in a bedsit with himself for company when it's pi$$ing down then .......

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:32 pm

Snowdonia

WadingInDeeper · Post by **WadingInDeeper** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:34 pm

Probably northwest Wales, between conway to caernarfon. Or northeast England around the bamborough area.

Pstotto · Post by **Pstotto** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:42 pm

Exactamente, Canterbury is fantastic but my relationship to it, is fraught and with mental health issues in a bedsit watching the mediocrities like Damien Hirst living the high art moneyed life instead of me for the additional grind ain't happiness.

timshorts · Post by **timshorts** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:46 pm

My daughter lived in Canterbury for a bit. When she moved there she thought it looked like a Sylvanian family town. It's nor that expensive outside the city centre cos there's f all nearby. Tunbridge wells and parts if Kent nearer London are more expensive.
I was brought up at the Sussex end of Romney marsh which is not overpopulated and affordable. Hastings is underpriced and on an upturn.
elsewhere I love the east midlands. Cardiff and Nottingham my favourite cities.

Pstotto · Post by **Pstotto** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:49 pm

Sylvanian families... "Feeling tense? Eat yr children!"

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:56 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Sister lived in Ashford and Maidstone. Back up here now. I never could take to kent, especially maidstone.

Now i liked maidstone...river and the town. Though not a lot there.

Clarets4me · Post by **Clarets4me** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:56 pm

10 Downing Street in 1964... with Mrs Clarets4me and hindsight....

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 9:00 pm

tim_noone wrote:Now i liked maidstone...river and the town. Though not a lot there.

Its alright. But just never got a vibe about the place. Some nice parks and leeds castle is nice. And close to london.

I used to enjoy going down just could have been any old town though for me.

califclaret · Post by **califclaret** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 10:26 pm

York would work for me if I had to move to UK. very happy here in Solvang.

chorleyhere · Post by **chorleyhere** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 10:44 pm

Like many people find, visiting somewhere when you are relaxed and on holiday with good weather is very different from actually living day to day in a place. Countryside and wild rugged scenery are wonderful but traffic can be horrendous and access to medical services can make life complicated and if it has holiday appeal, you would find yourself sharing it with the masses in the holiday season and battling for car park space etc.

So happily settled in Chorley as you can tell, with easy access to coast from Formby right up to the Cumbrian coast, local shops and market plus lovely parkland (Astley) for local walks or the hills around Rivington for more exertion. Good access to rail links to Manchester and beyond or over to Merseyside for culture and shops etc. All in all a nice place to live with its own micro-climate too. House prices not gone stupid so any takers???

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:16 am

chorleyhere wrote:Like many people find, visiting somewhere when you are relaxed and on holiday with good weather is very different from actually living day to day in a place. Countryside and wild rugged scenery are wonderful but traffic can be horrendous and access to medical services can make life complicated and if it has holiday appeal, you would find yourself sharing it with the masses in the holiday season and battling for car park space etc.

So happily settled in Chorley as you can tell, with easy access to coast from Formby right up to the Cumbrian coast, local shops and market plus lovely parkland (Astley) for local walks or the hills around Rivington for more exertion. Good access to rail links to Manchester and beyond or over to Merseyside for culture and shops etc. All in all a nice place to live with its own micro-climate too. House prices not gone stupid so any takers???

Micro Climates a deal clincher!

On subject of Cumbrian Coast, I dont often go up that way on the sea - more inland. Any specific recommendations?

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:24 am

Winscale maybe.....

lakedistrictclaret · Post by **lakedistrictclaret** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:35 pm

I'm perfectly happy in the north-west corner of the Lake District.

But if I had to move somewhere else, it would be Northumberland, within a fifteen mile radius of Alnwick.

HiroshimaClaret · Post by **HiroshimaClaret** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:18 pm

Keswick in the Lake District closely followed by somewhere at the foot of Pendle Hill but as neither of these two are truly feasible, then if I came back to the UK, it would have to be Liverpool - a buzzing city (where I lived for a few years) and there`s never a dull moment. Contrary also to many people`s ideas, a city full of brilliant, down-to-earth people.

HiroshimaClaret · Post by **HiroshimaClaret** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:20 pm

lakedistrictclaret wrote:I'm perfectly happy in the north-west corner of the Lake District.

But if I had to move somewhere else, it would be Northumberland, within a fifteen mile radius of Alnwick.

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Where exactly? I`ve just returned to Japan after 7 nights in a cottage in Keswick - truly is a place beyond dreams is the North Lakes! I miss it for quite some time upon my returns (as much as I love Hiroshima).

THEWELLERNUT70 · Post by **THEWELLERNUT70** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:24 pm

York
It feels like I live there now with the amount of times I visit there with my family each year. It's a move I hope to make permanent though within the next few years

lakedistrictclaret · Post by **lakedistrictclaret** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 2:52 pm

HiroshimaClaret wrote:e

Where exactly? I`ve just returned to Japan after 7 nights in a cottage in Keswick - truly is a place beyond dreams is the North Lakes! I miss it for quite some time upon my returns (as much as I love Hiroshima).

I live in Blindcrake, four miles north-east of Cockermouth. Good views of Skiddaw, Grisedale Pike and Hopegill Head from the village.

HiroshimaClaret · Post by **HiroshimaClaret** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:14 pm

lakedistrictclaret wrote:I live in Blindcrake, four miles north-east of Cockermouth. Good views of Skiddaw, Grisedale Pike and Hopegill Head from the village.

You`re one lucky buggar! ENJOY!

chorleyhere · Post by **chorleyhere** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:30 pm

Memories of St Bees Head from childhood on a very stormy day with waves crashing up and nearly blowing me over - went again last year on a short holiday towards the western lakes and enjoyed a sunny day with light breeze so it was nice too for different weather conditions. Also liked Ravenglass and the little railway to Boot plus the associations with the Romans which added to the interest for a 8-9 year old.
The spectre of nuclear reaction didn't enter my head at that time Cricketfieldclarets nor its version of a micro-climate!!!!!!!!!!!!

50 shades of Grey · Post by **50 shades of Grey** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:35 pm

I live near to Whalley nab - 15 minutes walk into Whalley - Clitheroe just down the road - into Burnley (Bridge Pub, ont' Turf, etc) in 25 minutes - fantastic scenery all around, Trough of Bowland on the doorstep - short train ride into Manchester for the occasional 'city' visit, etc. Perfectly happy where I am, really can't fault it.

It's not at all grim ooop Norf.

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