The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
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The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
For me would have to be somewhere in the South-east, because I love trees and it's one of the few areas of the U.K. that could afford to keep them. Then a choice between the area south of Farnham, near East Grinstead and Ashdown Forest, or Igtham Mote. Gets difficult at that point.
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St.Andrews Scotland.
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Aberdaron, N.Wales.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
Now Morfa Nevyn is very beautiful. Isn't Aberdaron near Hells Mouth?
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
It would be south. I sometimes drive from Leeds to London and the temperature gage in the car rises a good 3 degrees - and no; there's no 3 black ladies who suddenly come out and start singing, "When will I see you again".
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Wouldn't mind a house by the river on the broads, with a day trip boat moored outside.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
Burnley - if it was geographically located in sunny Kent!
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Devon if Burnley Fc were there. Probably the only thing that keeps me here.
Beautiful part of the country. Has everything bar a decent football team.
Beautiful part of the country. Has everything bar a decent football team.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
Having moved a couple years ago from east sussex to the thames valley. Thoroughly loving it here
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It is a really interesting question. I've lived around the UK including London and still pondering another move.
The South is definitely more expensive. You certainly get more house for your money in the North so that's good. Some parts of the country are overpopulated and traveling is slow and unpleasant.
This is an incredible piece of land that we all share. The regions are different but still beautiful. I live in a rather flat area at the moment but the upside is huge dramatic skies. But I miss the hills.
I'd like to live near water but fear flooding.
I don't have an answer to the OP's question but I do think we live in an incredible country.
The South is definitely more expensive. You certainly get more house for your money in the North so that's good. Some parts of the country are overpopulated and traveling is slow and unpleasant.
This is an incredible piece of land that we all share. The regions are different but still beautiful. I live in a rather flat area at the moment but the upside is huge dramatic skies. But I miss the hills.
I'd like to live near water but fear flooding.
I don't have an answer to the OP's question but I do think we live in an incredible country.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
Up north, but I'm staying in Oxfordshire for the rest of my life I think.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
Twickenham - where I live at present.
It's full of pate, olives and quinoa.....and truly is rather wonderful.
It's full of pate, olives and quinoa.....and truly is rather wonderful.
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Lake District
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
The Lune Valley, which is really lucky, as that is where I live.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
London but a nice part of it, not where I used to live. Failing that, Brighton.
No way I can afford to, so it's Lagos (in Portugal, not Nigeria) and Chiang Rai for me.
No way I can afford to, so it's Lagos (in Portugal, not Nigeria) and Chiang Rai for me.
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Are you a Luny ?Lancasterclaret wrote:The Lune Valley, which is really lucky, as that is where I live.
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Just outside the New Forest on the coastal side.Amazing varied scenery and a better climate.
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Spend loads of time on Twickenham these days... mainly in Rileys playing pool...Rickers Twickers wrote:Twickenham - where I live at present.
It's full of pate, olives and quinoa.....and truly is rather wonderful.
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On your allotment abc, taking turns flying drones with a certain James Tarkowski...
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Duke Bar. was a nice area in the 60's.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
I'm quite happy living in the Cheshire countryside outside Nantwich.
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Cornwall.
Probably Porthcurno
Probably Porthcurno
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We spend a lot of time in The Peak District. Would be my location of choice if I was to relocate.
Yorkshire Wolds would probably be my second choice.
Yorkshire Wolds would probably be my second choice.
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Sorry to jump threads, but it would be Liz Hurley's house, disguised cunningly as a wafer thin thong.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
I'm quite happy living in Chester. I do like the Trough of Bowland or the area around Grasmere in the Lakes though.
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Soho ......all walks of life,enjoying life. Or portobello rd watching the world go by enjoying a beer or two.
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
The top of Pendle.
My spiritual home.
I'd need an underground house though with either tunnel access from say Sabden or a bit of Thunderbirds "hill top opening" engineering so I'd not spoil it's splendor too much for others.
My spiritual home.
I'd need an underground house though with either tunnel access from say Sabden or a bit of Thunderbirds "hill top opening" engineering so I'd not spoil it's splendor too much for others.
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I live in what should be an ideal place to live, I live in Canterbury in Kent in pretty little medieval England, but even a hovel costs £300,000 and bedsit living is hellish.
It's great to wander among the tourists and visit the cathedral with a free pass anytime, but all the folk are rats out to climb over or undermine or take anything they can to screw anyone they can anyway that they can.
One is just seen as something to use and nothing else.
The weather is great for England and it's great to visit the coast and 'be on holiday' any day that you can, so it's a fantasy bubble but with a vicious undertow, the locals are either middle class and one can never access that or foreign (all the restaurants and the take aways and the folk connected) or big time thugs (literally) i.e, folk you'd rather not meet or they are semi-feral rats from the underworld and the underclass who speak medieval estuary Englishe with such a twang one can't follow.
Add to that, it's the youngest city in Europe with 35,000 students and four universities but all of them are self contained, probably smoking weed in their bedrooms, one never sees them.
it can be lonely and quite scary for so many big and small folk in a very tight space.
According to the BBC website quiz that one can do, I should live here or Oxford, but the quiz doesn't mention the flaws, it presumes you have the dosh and the connections to fulfill the dream.
It's great to wander among the tourists and visit the cathedral with a free pass anytime, but all the folk are rats out to climb over or undermine or take anything they can to screw anyone they can anyway that they can.
One is just seen as something to use and nothing else.
The weather is great for England and it's great to visit the coast and 'be on holiday' any day that you can, so it's a fantasy bubble but with a vicious undertow, the locals are either middle class and one can never access that or foreign (all the restaurants and the take aways and the folk connected) or big time thugs (literally) i.e, folk you'd rather not meet or they are semi-feral rats from the underworld and the underclass who speak medieval estuary Englishe with such a twang one can't follow.
Add to that, it's the youngest city in Europe with 35,000 students and four universities but all of them are self contained, probably smoking weed in their bedrooms, one never sees them.
it can be lonely and quite scary for so many big and small folk in a very tight space.
According to the BBC website quiz that one can do, I should live here or Oxford, but the quiz doesn't mention the flaws, it presumes you have the dosh and the connections to fulfill the dream.
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Tunnel access from sabden would be through the treacle mines.HunterST_BFC wrote:The top of Pendle.
My spiritual home.
I'd need an underground house though with either tunnel access from say Sabden or a bit of Thunderbirds "hill top opening" engineering so I'd not spoil it's splendor too much for others.
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Pstotto wrote:I live in what should be an ideal place to live, I live in Canterbury in Kent in pretty little medieval England, but even a hovel costs £300,000 and bedsit living is hellish.
It's great to wander among the tourists and visit the cathedral with a free pass anytime, but all the folk are rats out to climb over or undermine or take anything they can to screw anyone they can anyway that they can.
One is just seen as something to use and nothing else.
The weather is great for England and it's great to visit the coast and 'be on holiday' any day that you can, so it's a fantasy bubble but with a vicious undertow, the locals are either middle class and one can never access that or foreign (all the restaurants and the take aways and the folk connected) or big time thugs (literally) i.e, folk you'd rather not meet or they are semi-feral rats from the underworld and the underclass who speak medieval estuary Englishe with such a twang one can't follow.
Add to that, it's the youngest city in Europe with 35,000 students and four universities but all of them are self contained, probably smoking weed in their bedrooms, one never sees them.so you like living there then......
it can be lonely and quite scary for so many big and small folk in a very tight space.
According to the BBC website quiz that one can do, I should live here or Oxford, but the quiz doesn't mention the flaws, it presumes you have the dosh and the connections to fulfill the dream.
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So you like living in canterbury.....
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Exactly.tim_noone wrote:Tunnel access from sabden would be through the treacle mines.
With it on tap.
A then GF in London when told of this phenomenon wanted to visit. So we drove around for a couple of weeks (scot's boarders - Lanc coast - Lakes - Lanc's all over - etc etc). And the highlight of the trip for her was Sabden Pendle.
Mine varied
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Re: The place you'd most like to live in the UK.
The Yorkshire Dales...Ooooops I am already here .
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Yes and no.
I'd rather be miserable here, I think.
As yet I don't have other options.
I wouldn't recommend it.
The weather is great for England, though, that's why I'm here, it's the climate.
I'd rather be miserable here, I think.
As yet I don't have other options.
I wouldn't recommend it.
The weather is great for England, though, that's why I'm here, it's the climate.
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Definitely not the south east or London as it's vastly over populated.
Like my cars for proper driving, nice scenery so for me it would be Argyll and Bute. Probably the most picturesque part of the UK and some cracking roads aswell. The A83 and that bend at butterbridge. Superb.
Like my cars for proper driving, nice scenery so for me it would be Argyll and Bute. Probably the most picturesque part of the UK and some cracking roads aswell. The A83 and that bend at butterbridge. Superb.
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Yorkshire Dales or South Coast. Unlikely to retire to either unfortunately,,,,,
For day to day work/living then it would have to be Richmond on Thames / Twickenham with a house overlooking the Thames or on one of the wee islands along there.
For day to day work/living then it would have to be Richmond on Thames / Twickenham with a house overlooking the Thames or on one of the wee islands along there.
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If you've travelled around these beautiful set of islands that make up the UK, you'll find it difficult to pick a place that you'd most like to live.
If there's a gun to my head then I may choose Staithes, but you'd better make it count because I'll change my mind otherwise.
If there's a gun to my head then I may choose Staithes, but you'd better make it count because I'll change my mind otherwise.
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That sick ba$turd Jimmy Saville had the white cottage at the head of Glencoe and I always had a fancy for that.
Now I think they should pull it down.
Anywhere I can see mountains will do for me.
Now I think they should pull it down.
Anywhere I can see mountains will do for me.
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Abersoch the warren
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[as above] Richmond just west of London.
Cornwall....most bits of it.
Keswick, Grasmere, Coniston or similar.
The football though will tend to draw me towards Bur.......
Cornwall....most bits of it.
Keswick, Grasmere, Coniston or similar.
The football though will tend to draw me towards Bur.......
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Bin Ont Turf wrote:If you've travelled around these beautiful set of islands that make up the UK, you'll find it difficult to pick a place that you'd most like to live.
If there's a gun to my head then I may choose Staithes, but you'd better make it count because I'll change my mind otherwise.
badge me holding aforementioned gun BIN, .....
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You'd only miss and watch the bullet ricochet off the cliff face and cut the rope holding the anvil, which would then land upon your bonce.Wile E Coyote wrote:badge me holding aforementioned gun BIN, .....
Beep beep!
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If I ever came back to the UK to live, ideally I would chose between the New Forest around Exbury where I spent some of my teenage years or more probably some where in the Lake District possibly somewhere like Thornthwaite. Practically I probably couldn't afford either!
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nowt wrong with kent. love it. long way fromt turf on match days though
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Bristol is brilliant as is the surrounding area over to Bath etc. But they talk funny and they have crap airports and motorways.
So failing that, If they could move Edinburgh next to The Turf and move the weather from the south east, the coast from the south west, the mountains of Scotland & Wales and the countryside of Yorkshire all with a Burnley accent I would probably be happy.
Failing that Slough.
So failing that, If they could move Edinburgh next to The Turf and move the weather from the south east, the coast from the south west, the mountains of Scotland & Wales and the countryside of Yorkshire all with a Burnley accent I would probably be happy.
Failing that Slough.
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I've been thinking of moving to the South Downs area, maybe Arundel. I've worked for the Castle for 9 years now and the town is a delight to visit.
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I agree ClaretKent, I think it's great, too, if you've got the dosh to enjoy it and you have what you need.
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I love living amongst the craggy hills of the Pennines. I love the views, I love the walks, I love the industrial history, I love the pubs, I love the people(for all their faults).
There's lots of other places that look like they'd be good to live in, but I am very happy to live in the hills above Todmorden.
There's lots of other places that look like they'd be good to live in, but I am very happy to live in the hills above Todmorden.
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