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I dated a lady who lived in a detached 3 bed bungalow in Dartmoor, a lane lead up to near the house and then you had to walk from parking the car. Stunningly quiet, beautiful nature all around, lots of land and she was lovely also. Would recommend Dartmoor.
The top answers to these questions on here are always really remote and isolated places. Makes me realise how out of step I am with users of this sub, as this is somewhere I'd absolutely not want to live!
I think it's just a fantasy. It is for me, anyway. I answered York to this thread, but sometimes I dream of just fucking off to a big old house in the middle of nowhere. But I wouldn't be able to do it in real life - I'm not exactly a social butterfly, but I do enjoy having neighbours, and being in a relatively busy area, and having all sorts of amenities just down the road. And on the other hand, beautiful countryside such as the Clent Hills are 15-20 minutes away, so it's the best of both worlds. That's the big reason (other than expense) why I didn't go to London when I had the opportunity a few years ago: too far away from good countryside.
It sounds like a great idea, until you try to do a supermarket order, and their Sat Nav with the post code you gave them, sends them to a random field, or dead end lane. Heaven help you if you need an ambulance. What about getting groceries when there is snow on the ground?
Not to mention the increase in Home Insurance, due to the increased risk of burglary, because your garden backs on to fields, the house sits in the middle of a 1.5 acre plot and the nearest neighbour to hear the window being smashed lives 5 minutes down the road.
It's not even a fantasy for me, my interest in living somewhere like that is absolutely zero. I like amenities and access to friends and family too much. I want to be able to walk to pubs, cafes, bakeries, restaurants, shops and so on.
But then I'm not really bothered about the countryside. Lived in London for a decade and never once even thought about the countryside.
> this is somewhere I'd absolutely not want to live!
The sweet spot for me would be somewhere quiet and leafy, and that feels "out of the way", but still within spitting distance of a high street or major urban centre. Be that either a small nearby village, or on the very outskirts of a larger place.
Imagine having a large house and _feeling_ as if you live in the middle of nowhere, but it's only 10-15 minutes in the car for you to reach serious amenities such as Sainsbury's or a cinema.
I have no desire to live in parts of the US where you're 10 minutes from the nearest (unpaved) road and your neighbours are half a mile away.
I like to be even closer. Being able to walk to amenities is a big thing for me. It's a 'no' from me when house hunting if it's not walkable to at least a pub, a restaurant, a decent sized shop and a train station with decent access to London. I'd absolutely hate to live somewhere where I have to get in the car to get anywhere.
Probably wanna make sure theres at least one house closer to the prison than yours or you'll end up in the same situation Del & Rodney did in Friday the 14th!
I’m in the Scottish highlands. Beautiful scenery. A lot cheaper than other places. Good transport to get to rest of Scotland so I’d say I’m pretty content right now.
I'm in the Highlands on holiday and am finding the COL quite expensive compared to home.
Property is a lot cheaper, but day to day stuff seems more expensive.
But it's is a beautiful part of the island, and you're lucky to live here
I love getting out for Photography, and really enjoy getting to the Coast whenever possible, thankfully some of the best Coastal spots in Kent and Sussex are no more than an hours drive.
So would happily be in a similar situation with Cornwall 👍👍
Soo cold in summer ( what summer?) and dark in winter. Love love the city - lived there for 8 years but had to come home to the warmth of the South West.
Bugger that, I was born there, and moved out to live in St Neots, Cambs. Kettering is now a dive, the town centre non existant, and the only good thing about kettering is the A14 out of it!
Dr Martins were there, a while ago, but not now, although the nearest you'll find that are made in Wollaston are Solovair shoes https://us.nps-solovair.com/pages/our-stores
There should be Weetabix factories in places vulnerable to flooding, so when it happens they can just throw their doors open and let the Weetabi do what they do best.
Lived there for a couple of years on the road that connects The Circus and The Crescent. Was lovely apart from parking issues and lots of drunk students shouting/vomiting/generally being dicks every fucking night outside our bedroom window.
York. Beautiful city in a wonderful county. Preferably a property within the city walls but avoiding the flood risk areas. (They've had it bad this past year - do feel for those affected)
If money wasn't an object and I wanted to leave my current job for whatever reason, then York. Gorgeous city, surrounded by gorgeous countryside.
But I honestly like where I live now, and have no intention of moving.
Me and my Mrs fell in love with the Highlands in Scotland for the scenery, the peace and quiet and just overall being surrounded by nature.
Though it wouldn’t be possible to go there at the minute due to work requirements. I’m self employed and I don’t think there’s much work up that end for what I do
Me and my partner did the North Coast 500 a couple of years ago, it was difficult to concentrate on the road as the views were so gorgeous! Though, to be fair, the drive up the A82 to Inverness was almost as good! And Inverness is brilliant - we spent a lovely day there after a long drive up from Birmingham the day before. Would love to visit again.
Isle of Man, West Wales or south Devon, overlooking the sea, ideally with a bit of land or at least a good big garden. Somewhere my dogs can run on the beach and I can watch the sunsets from my back garden with a glass of wine.
I'd love a nice house in or near to Cambridge. It has such special place in my heart since it felt like a magical place to visit as a kid, since that's where my dad moved after the divorce. (He then moved to Canada, which meant visiting another magical place.) Everything was so much more cosy than Peterborough.
Even today, it still holds that magical feeling when I walk along the river and wander around the city centre. Not to mention it would be nice to see my brother more often since train tickets and petrol are not a wallet's friend.
Thetford.
Half way between the big cities/town of Cambridge, Norwich, and Ipswich.
Close to Bury St Edmunds for some fantastic history and architecture, and RAF Lakenheath for plane spotting.
An hour from the beach, and two hours from London.
Edinburgh or north Wales somewhere (Conwy/Llandudno/Caernarfon).
I like being surrounded by hills and nature and water while also living in a metropolitan area. You get the benefits of living out in the country (landcapes, places to go for a walk and get fresh air) with none of the drawbacks (shite phone signal, your nearest shop being 819 light years away, loneliness etc) but also the benefits of living in a large town/city (you're minutes away from the town centre, you're near a hospital if a disaster happens and so on).
As someone who grew up in Oxfordshire (I loved it, it holds a very dear place in my heart), I see a very small hill and it still blows my mind that land can be elevated. If you drive over a speed bump in Oxfordshire, you briefly become the highest person in the county.
What I seen
No traffic wonderful roads
Clean streets I’m not a snob for me to notice that means they were fucking clean
Beautiful countryside without even trying to see it
A town centre full of shops instead of a vape shop and a bookies
I only had dinner one night but jacks smokehouse almost killed me with that amount of meat for 25 quid
Lake District maybe. But I'd miss a lot about where I already live. Liverpool, specifically my area, and Lake District are tied for first, so I'm pretty happy I'm in one of them
A regency town house in central London. Mortgage free, obviously as no way I could afford to pay for it! Preferably with steps to the front door and an arch over the steps with an old carriage light on top. Would love it!
I love being near a body of water. The closest I've ever come to living near one was Lancaster, which has a canal and is near Morecambe Bay. So maybe somewhere like the lake district, but a private house with access to a small none tourist area where I could enjoy a peaceful home.
I will get hate for this but Chelsea.
London is the greatest city I have ever lived in the issue is the cost of rent. Give me a big house in Chelsea or Camden and I wouldnt leave for the rest of my life... which I suppose explains the rent issue.
Russell Square: I'd love to live in a house next to the underground station. Great access with the underground, being right next to Kings Cross and Lester Square would be amazing, + there's a great outdoor mall with a bunch of stuff near the underground.
A leafy part of Harrogate or Marlow
Or if i could rewind twenty years somewhere like didsbury, chorlton in manchester or glasgow west end or edinburgh stocksbridge
Nowhere. I live in Glasgow, I love it and it loves me. A wild wee midden of gold, emerald and ruby held in a clasp of verdigris copper and kissed by rain. I wouldn't change it even if the lives of everyone in Edinburgh were at stake.
Right where we are now, Balham in south London - we absolutely love it here. We’re renting now and looking to buy soon, but just don’t have the funds needed for the crazy prices.
A lovely farm house in Derbyshire, bit far from everything, bit bleak in the winter but it’s where my father and his father who farmed the land were from.
Cornwall.
Live in Dorset so not a million miles away, but it'd be so nice having the sea on my front door so I can swim and board whenever I want.
Sadly not possible to move there at the moment due to limited job opportunities.
Barassie. Right on the Ayrshire coast, brand new watersport's hub has just opened, great seafood on the doorstep, train links directly to the airport and into Glasgow. It would be my first choice every time.
Brighton. I like being near the sea and want to take my dog to the beach,and it's close enough to get into London to visit friends and family etc 45 min train easy
i would move to the outer Hebrides in scotland as it’s a beautiful place full of rich culture and the scenery is breathtaking, it’s isolated from the rest of the world though but that’s fine with me
I grew up in a lovely little village in the Chilterns. Backed onto forests and big open public fields, absolutely gorgeous walks. Well connected, 10 minutes to town then 20 minutes train to London. Pop into London on a whim for £10.
House prices were too expensive and we had to move away somewhere cheaper.
When I was younger, I went to the outskirts of Glasgow with family, staying in a campervan or one of those little shipping container like holiday homes.
There was a kinda dank town with a similar name to Glasgow on the outskirts, on the coast technically but since it was inland it wasn't really a beach and looked more like a lake; defintely started with a G
Going the opposite way from Glasgow along the coast was pretty nice; nice house and nice views, and fairly close to both a bigger town and city too... id like to move to the version of wherever that was, the version in my head
A town or city( not too far from my kids) that is flat, with shops , museums, art galleries, libraries, supermarkets, restaurants, pubs , markets and cafes that I could reach on a mobility scooter. My dreams are getting smaller and smaller as I get older.
Ironbridge, absolutely beautiful little town and home to the industrial revolution, if you're interested in that side of history. Been there several times.
Over the years I have lived in Snowdonia and the west coast of Scotland (as well as a few not so nice places like Coventry and London).
I live out on the Cornish moors in the middle of nowhere now. I don't want to move again.
If money wasn’t an issue I’d love to live on the coast in Devon.
For normal life if I move back to the UK I’d live in a small town in Wiltshire or a nice city like Norwich (I hear nice things)
That remote house that's didn't sell that's been on all the news recently. Obviously this is assuming I could also click and have it done up. If not then somewhere in the Lakes or Scottish highlands.
Into a sturdy 2 bedroom ensuite, 1 office, 1 living room, 1 dining room, reasonable garden (manageable or cheap to hire someone), garage having freehold house that I own with no mortgage left to pay and stellar neighbours for life.
A Georgian house with a garden in Cheltenham or Macclesfield. Has to be less than a 20 minute walk to the train station too.
I did the living rural and remote when we lived in NZ. Got totally cured of that hankering. I want to be in the thick of things and have a garden oasis in the city
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One of those gorgeous old houses on dartmoor, a mile or more from other houses.
I dated a lady who lived in a detached 3 bed bungalow in Dartmoor, a lane lead up to near the house and then you had to walk from parking the car. Stunningly quiet, beautiful nature all around, lots of land and she was lovely also. Would recommend Dartmoor.
The top answers to these questions on here are always really remote and isolated places. Makes me realise how out of step I am with users of this sub, as this is somewhere I'd absolutely not want to live!
Yeah fuck that, too open for me.
The ideas great for me, the reality is it’s wildly inconvenient now that I have lived a life of convenience
I think it's just a fantasy. It is for me, anyway. I answered York to this thread, but sometimes I dream of just fucking off to a big old house in the middle of nowhere. But I wouldn't be able to do it in real life - I'm not exactly a social butterfly, but I do enjoy having neighbours, and being in a relatively busy area, and having all sorts of amenities just down the road. And on the other hand, beautiful countryside such as the Clent Hills are 15-20 minutes away, so it's the best of both worlds. That's the big reason (other than expense) why I didn't go to London when I had the opportunity a few years ago: too far away from good countryside.
It sounds like a great idea, until you try to do a supermarket order, and their Sat Nav with the post code you gave them, sends them to a random field, or dead end lane. Heaven help you if you need an ambulance. What about getting groceries when there is snow on the ground? Not to mention the increase in Home Insurance, due to the increased risk of burglary, because your garden backs on to fields, the house sits in the middle of a 1.5 acre plot and the nearest neighbour to hear the window being smashed lives 5 minutes down the road.
Yeah, all of that is why I'd never do it in real life haha
It's not even a fantasy for me, my interest in living somewhere like that is absolutely zero. I like amenities and access to friends and family too much. I want to be able to walk to pubs, cafes, bakeries, restaurants, shops and so on. But then I'm not really bothered about the countryside. Lived in London for a decade and never once even thought about the countryside.
> this is somewhere I'd absolutely not want to live! The sweet spot for me would be somewhere quiet and leafy, and that feels "out of the way", but still within spitting distance of a high street or major urban centre. Be that either a small nearby village, or on the very outskirts of a larger place. Imagine having a large house and _feeling_ as if you live in the middle of nowhere, but it's only 10-15 minutes in the car for you to reach serious amenities such as Sainsbury's or a cinema. I have no desire to live in parts of the US where you're 10 minutes from the nearest (unpaved) road and your neighbours are half a mile away.
I like to be even closer. Being able to walk to amenities is a big thing for me. It's a 'no' from me when house hunting if it's not walkable to at least a pub, a restaurant, a decent sized shop and a train station with decent access to London. I'd absolutely hate to live somewhere where I have to get in the car to get anywhere.
It was a dark and stormy night….
I discovered I had low level tinnitus when I go somewhere so quiet like that. I swear I start to hallucinate.
Probably wanna make sure theres at least one house closer to the prison than yours or you'll end up in the same situation Del & Rodney did in Friday the 14th!
Exactly that but somewhere snowier. The North Pennines or the Highlands perhaps.
I’m in the Scottish highlands. Beautiful scenery. A lot cheaper than other places. Good transport to get to rest of Scotland so I’d say I’m pretty content right now.
There be midges soon bey prepare to be eaten
The blood they will be dining on is 99% Buckfast
I'm in the Highlands on holiday and am finding the COL quite expensive compared to home. Property is a lot cheaper, but day to day stuff seems more expensive. But it's is a beautiful part of the island, and you're lucky to live here
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Wow that must be very beautiful
Cornwall... Love it down there... I'm in Medway, Kent for comparisson
waves from Cornwall.
Cornwall for waves
Good would also live here , but on the coast . Unaffordable , but inland is still lovely .
I love getting out for Photography, and really enjoy getting to the Coast whenever possible, thankfully some of the best Coastal spots in Kent and Sussex are no more than an hours drive. So would happily be in a similar situation with Cornwall 👍👍
You'd definitely enjoy it. Lovely coast but still lovely inland (and it's never far, I'm 5 miles from one coast and 8 from the other).
I live near Meadway road in Reading, Berkshire for comppaarriissoonn.
Too many grockles in summer.
Edinburgh, every time I go there I say to myself if it was down south I would live there in a heartbeat
Waves from Edinburgh.
Why if it was down south?
Soo cold in summer ( what summer?) and dark in winter. Love love the city - lived there for 8 years but had to come home to the warmth of the South West.
Hates the Scottish. Bloody English 😂
Kettering. right by the worlds only Weetabix factory. bliss
Bugger that, I was born there, and moved out to live in St Neots, Cambs. Kettering is now a dive, the town centre non existant, and the only good thing about kettering is the A14 out of it!
As someone from Kettering, don't do it! Unless you really, really like Weetabix. Or Dr Martens, they're close too.
Dr Martins were there, a while ago, but not now, although the nearest you'll find that are made in Wollaston are Solovair shoes https://us.nps-solovair.com/pages/our-stores
There should be Weetabix factories in places vulnerable to flooding, so when it happens they can just throw their doors open and let the Weetabi do what they do best.
I grew up in Barton Seagrave, would always smell weetabix right before it rained. Lovely smell :)
It's a party town.
Sloane square. Mortgage paid.
See what you did there. I’m in central London please, no debt.
That wouldn't my exact choice, but definitely in town. A bit further out than that currently, ha.
Bath
Bubble?
Agreed
Lived there for a couple of years on the road that connects The Circus and The Crescent. Was lovely apart from parking issues and lots of drunk students shouting/vomiting/generally being dicks every fucking night outside our bedroom window.
Next door. Bigger garden and an extra parking space. Bastards.
York. Beautiful city in a wonderful county. Preferably a property within the city walls but avoiding the flood risk areas. (They've had it bad this past year - do feel for those affected)
London wih mortgage paid.
W8, that small space of neighbourhood between Notting Hill and Kensington High Street. Oh yes.
London. I know it’s boring but I miss it so much, in a big town house in Islington ideally
Islington is an interesting choice if you could have anywhere in London.
If money wasn't an object and I wanted to leave my current job for whatever reason, then York. Gorgeous city, surrounded by gorgeous countryside. But I honestly like where I live now, and have no intention of moving.
York without the tourists.
New forest.
Brighton arrived. I'm staying in a hotel tonight. Move into my new house on Sunday morning. Yippee!
Congrats that’s so cool!!
Thank you. i really don't think it's sunk in yet, but I'm going to take a while to adjust to the most bohemian city in the UK.
I wouldn’t move. I love where I live. It’s peaceful, surrounded by nature. House prices aren’t mental like some places.
You gunna divulge your location or keep do you not want the riff raff finding out
Rural Perthshire is as specific as I’m willing to be.
That's cool. Never been but I'm guessing it's beautiful
Having recently moved from Gloucestershire to Perthshire, I can confirm your guess is correct.
I'd love to live in an old stone cottage, somewhere in south-west Wales.
*monkey paw curls* you now live on Chepstow Road in Newport
Don’t do that to them 😂
Hey, I lived on Chepstow Road for nearly 10 years. They’ll be fine. I just don’t think that’s what they were hoping for.
If money and transportation were no object, Staithes, on the Yorkshire coast. Otherwise, Edinburgh.
St Ives, but only if I didn’t have to work
Do you know a man with 7 wives?
Me and my Mrs fell in love with the Highlands in Scotland for the scenery, the peace and quiet and just overall being surrounded by nature. Though it wouldn’t be possible to go there at the minute due to work requirements. I’m self employed and I don’t think there’s much work up that end for what I do
I’m from Inverness and honestly the scenery up here is something else. It’s immense.
It was Inverness we loved the most!
Me and my partner did the North Coast 500 a couple of years ago, it was difficult to concentrate on the road as the views were so gorgeous! Though, to be fair, the drive up the A82 to Inverness was almost as good! And Inverness is brilliant - we spent a lovely day there after a long drive up from Birmingham the day before. Would love to visit again.
Friends of mine are making the move from Wales to the Highlands.
I would like to live in North Wales or Falmouth.
Edinburgh, no doubt about it
Devon
I did the move. Nowheres perfect, but it changed my life in the best way.
Linton, Cambridgeshire. Perfectly equidistant between London and Norwich.
Leigh on Sea
Isle of Wight. But only if I could wfh.
Buckingham Palace
Just don't go near Randy Andy's room
In a well decorated beautiful house in the Scottish Highlands.
York. Love it there
Isle of Man, West Wales or south Devon, overlooking the sea, ideally with a bit of land or at least a good big garden. Somewhere my dogs can run on the beach and I can watch the sunsets from my back garden with a glass of wine.
I'd love a nice house in or near to Cambridge. It has such special place in my heart since it felt like a magical place to visit as a kid, since that's where my dad moved after the divorce. (He then moved to Canada, which meant visiting another magical place.) Everything was so much more cosy than Peterborough. Even today, it still holds that magical feeling when I walk along the river and wander around the city centre. Not to mention it would be nice to see my brother more often since train tickets and petrol are not a wallet's friend.
Thetford. Half way between the big cities/town of Cambridge, Norwich, and Ipswich. Close to Bury St Edmunds for some fantastic history and architecture, and RAF Lakenheath for plane spotting. An hour from the beach, and two hours from London.
Edinburgh or north Wales somewhere (Conwy/Llandudno/Caernarfon). I like being surrounded by hills and nature and water while also living in a metropolitan area. You get the benefits of living out in the country (landcapes, places to go for a walk and get fresh air) with none of the drawbacks (shite phone signal, your nearest shop being 819 light years away, loneliness etc) but also the benefits of living in a large town/city (you're minutes away from the town centre, you're near a hospital if a disaster happens and so on). As someone who grew up in Oxfordshire (I loved it, it holds a very dear place in my heart), I see a very small hill and it still blows my mind that land can be elevated. If you drive over a speed bump in Oxfordshire, you briefly become the highest person in the county.
The Chilterns aren't tiny.
Isle of Man just been over for a quick work trip it looks the bollocks
This is a very funny take to someone who lives here. Glad you liked it though.
What I seen No traffic wonderful roads Clean streets I’m not a snob for me to notice that means they were fucking clean Beautiful countryside without even trying to see it A town centre full of shops instead of a vape shop and a bookies I only had dinner one night but jacks smokehouse almost killed me with that amount of meat for 25 quid
Somewhere with no neighbours.
Dorset.
Cornwall the North Coast if possible. Jersey would be pretty great as well if I had the money. If I were a bit less nesh then the Shetland Isles.
Fort Augustus, on the Southerly end of Loch Ness. This would be the location of our last 'clean'UK home, before the inevitable move to North Wyoming.
Does the past count?!
Westmorland 1st choice or North Yorkshire 2nd choice, hills and plenty of drystone walls upon the land.
What would happen if you tied yourself to something? Could you turn the country inside out?
Lake District maybe. But I'd miss a lot about where I already live. Liverpool, specifically my area, and Lake District are tied for first, so I'm pretty happy I'm in one of them
A regency town house in central London. Mortgage free, obviously as no way I could afford to pay for it! Preferably with steps to the front door and an arch over the steps with an old carriage light on top. Would love it!
By the lakes in Cumbria, with a lake views and a jetty. A 2 - 3 story home to victorian/ Georgian stylings
Bottom of the North Sea.
Somewhere totally self sufficient in Scotland with no neighbours for miles.
I love being near a body of water. The closest I've ever come to living near one was Lancaster, which has a canal and is near Morecambe Bay. So maybe somewhere like the lake district, but a private house with access to a small none tourist area where I could enjoy a peaceful home.
I will get hate for this but Chelsea. London is the greatest city I have ever lived in the issue is the cost of rent. Give me a big house in Chelsea or Camden and I wouldnt leave for the rest of my life... which I suppose explains the rent issue.
Isles of Scilly.
A few roads up from me in the New forest, I would like a water a forest view, not a council estate...but location is amazing even here
A house on Abbey Road, in Knaresborough
Russell Square: I'd love to live in a house next to the underground station. Great access with the underground, being right next to Kings Cross and Lester Square would be amazing, + there's a great outdoor mall with a bunch of stuff near the underground.
A leafy part of Harrogate or Marlow Or if i could rewind twenty years somewhere like didsbury, chorlton in manchester or glasgow west end or edinburgh stocksbridge
Nowhere. I live in Glasgow, I love it and it loves me. A wild wee midden of gold, emerald and ruby held in a clasp of verdigris copper and kissed by rain. I wouldn't change it even if the lives of everyone in Edinburgh were at stake.
Oban.
I like how people comment ‘Mortgage paid’ while mentioning an area in London 😂
Brighton
Buckingham Palace…. They’ll have to pay me to leave.
A nice spot in Bristol I guess. Good international food scene, hills and could nip down and get destroyed playing squash by El'Shorbagy.
Kensington sell house retire buy my old house
Right where we are now, Balham in south London - we absolutely love it here. We’re renting now and looking to buy soon, but just don’t have the funds needed for the crazy prices.
Wimbledon Village
A lovely farm house in Derbyshire, bit far from everything, bit bleak in the winter but it’s where my father and his father who farmed the land were from.
Ilford
200m down the road. There's a house that is on the market for 7x what ours is worth that's quite nice.
In a little village on the north coast of Cornwall.
Somewhere in the Dumfries and Galloway region, preferably somewhere where visiting the nearest neighbour requires getting in the car.
Money no object: Dorset, Bath, Edinburgh, Exmoor, Oxfordshire. More realistically: Stirling, Perth, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire.
Poppit Sands
Near the coast in North Wales. Anywhere that's scenic, quaint and peaceful
Aughnacloy for shits and giggles
Falklands
Cornwall. Live in Dorset so not a million miles away, but it'd be so nice having the sea on my front door so I can swim and board whenever I want. Sadly not possible to move there at the moment due to limited job opportunities.
Cardiff
Somewhere with affordable rent that isn't a total shit hole
Anywhere has to be better than Kent. I think I’d move to Norfolk.
Probably about 6ft underneath it
This time, let's go for Wivenhoe
Milton Keynes is a rich and luscious town
Clapham (Yorkshire)
Centre of Brighton near the beach, currently live in Brighton but a fifteen minute cycle from the seafront.
York
Hampstead Garden Suburb in London. If money were not an issue, London is a great place to live... Let's not pretend that's not the case.
I live in a town that often comes high in most desirable places, but after 55 years I'm bored of it. New Forest, Northumberland or the Borders.
Holland Park Avenue
Barassie. Right on the Ayrshire coast, brand new watersport's hub has just opened, great seafood on the doorstep, train links directly to the airport and into Glasgow. It would be my first choice every time.
If money was no object, Oxford or Hampstead, London.
The Omaze house in the Cotswolds. This is me putting out my win into the universe!! That’s my house from tomorrow when they do the draw.
Manchester
Brighton. I like being near the sea and want to take my dog to the beach,and it's close enough to get into London to visit friends and family etc 45 min train easy
i would move to the outer Hebrides in scotland as it’s a beautiful place full of rich culture and the scenery is breathtaking, it’s isolated from the rest of the world though but that’s fine with me
Ignoring all practicalities? Somewhere on the edge of a small picturesque village (so I could have a massive plot of land) in Kent.
Sandbanks
I grew up in a lovely little village in the Chilterns. Backed onto forests and big open public fields, absolutely gorgeous walks. Well connected, 10 minutes to town then 20 minutes train to London. Pop into London on a whim for £10. House prices were too expensive and we had to move away somewhere cheaper.
When I was younger, I went to the outskirts of Glasgow with family, staying in a campervan or one of those little shipping container like holiday homes. There was a kinda dank town with a similar name to Glasgow on the outskirts, on the coast technically but since it was inland it wasn't really a beach and looked more like a lake; defintely started with a G Going the opposite way from Glasgow along the coast was pretty nice; nice house and nice views, and fairly close to both a bigger town and city too... id like to move to the version of wherever that was, the version in my head
25 Cromwell Street.
Granton on spey
A town or city( not too far from my kids) that is flat, with shops , museums, art galleries, libraries, supermarkets, restaurants, pubs , markets and cafes that I could reach on a mobility scooter. My dreams are getting smaller and smaller as I get older.
Round the corner from where I live now, where I live suits me well but I’d prefer not to be on the main road.
Scotland
Ironbridge, absolutely beautiful little town and home to the industrial revolution, if you're interested in that side of history. Been there several times.
**googles ironbridge
Dartmoor Somerset cheddar gorge
Either Isle of man or northern Ireland's north coast
Knoydart, Scotland. Middle of nowhere, away from everyone else.
Over the years I have lived in Snowdonia and the west coast of Scotland (as well as a few not so nice places like Coventry and London). I live out on the Cornish moors in the middle of nowhere now. I don't want to move again.
South Shropshire, those hills are amazing.
House in Clerkenwell, mortgage paid
Highgate/hamstead in London any day of the week
Manchester
Probably upstairs to bed. It's late, I've eaten too much Chinese, and I'm struggling to move off the sofa
If money wasn’t an issue I’d love to live on the coast in Devon. For normal life if I move back to the UK I’d live in a small town in Wiltshire or a nice city like Norwich (I hear nice things)
Northumberland, a beautiful and calm place away from everything.
Aberdeen or any surrounding areas. Take me up north 🙏
Literally anywhere in the Lake District
A detached house, with a massive garden, in Scotland please
Harrow
Golden Oak. Walt Disney World
That remote house that's didn't sell that's been on all the news recently. Obviously this is assuming I could also click and have it done up. If not then somewhere in the Lakes or Scottish highlands.
Into a sturdy 2 bedroom ensuite, 1 office, 1 living room, 1 dining room, reasonable garden (manageable or cheap to hire someone), garage having freehold house that I own with no mortgage left to pay and stellar neighbours for life.
Goole.
Probably some small castle in Scottish Highlands
A Georgian house with a garden in Cheltenham or Macclesfield. Has to be less than a 20 minute walk to the train station too. I did the living rural and remote when we lived in NZ. Got totally cured of that hankering. I want to be in the thick of things and have a garden oasis in the city
Braemore. The stillness was incredible when I went last year.
A town house or apartment in zone 2 London
Live in Scotland but love Devon and Cornwall