Do you like where you live

Like it so much we haven’t moved since we got married! Quiet village with towns and large town nearby, plenty of peaceful walks, neighbours keep themselves to themselves but that’s the way I like it. The only improvement would be a detached bungalow instead of a semi-detached house.

I absolutely love where we live!! We have lived in this large, not very pretty for nearly 30 years. It has a fabulous community spirit, as lockdown has proved, our neighbours are lovely. We almost bought a house here 40 years ago and didn't but wishes we had though I prefer this house just off the high street.

We are 3 miles from a small, lively, university town and a city with a great diverse population. We are close to good road and rail links and all our children are all less than 90 minutes away.

I can't ever imagine leaving here.

love where I live. I'm near the sea.

I love where I live, have lived in the area all my life. We are between two rivers and lovely countryside. We need to move now within the area from a four bedroom house to a smaller bungalow and will do this when we are able to find one we like. I love being able to take countryside walks and walks by the rivers and coast. Will be thrilled when we are free to move around when this horrendous pandemic is over.

It's great that so many are happy where they live. Chewbacca, I feel for you. My dad always said we shouldn't tell anyone how lovely our area is, in case they all wanted to come here!

l do like where we live. We are on the outskirts of a small city. We have a wide range of shops and restaurants when we want them. Easy access to theatre, cinema, concerts. Half an hour to the coast or country. We are 15 minutes drive to our daughter and family. 15 minutes in the other direction to my 89 year old mother so easy access to both. Nice neighbours. Friendly in passing in a chat on the drive way. All of us would definitely be helpful in an emergency but not in each other's pockets.

Really don't like where I live. It's a 'new' town, basically just one big housing estate. We go for walks but the only thing to see is houses, houses and more houses. DH grew up here so can't see the problem and I can't persuade him to move. Desperate for end of lockdown so I can get out into countryside again and just breathe.

Yes I love where we live too, in countryside within walking distance of three villages ,with pubs ?, and the sea. Market town just over 2 miles away. House suits our needs and I have reached a stage where I have no 'improvements' planned.
Interestingly I have also loved other places we have lived for different reasons.
I loved our first rented flat when we married, felt so grown up.
I loved the flat we then bought on the outskirts of town because it had open views and a garden.
I loved the little terraced house we moved to as it was large enough for us to start a family.
I loved the next house we bought because it was further away from the MinL!! Unfortunately also far from shops.
Loved our next house because it was in the middle of a coastal town with shops at the top of the street and the beach at the bottom. Having two little ones it made life so much easier . When eldest started school it was on the opposite side of our street.
Loved next house because it was on sea front, on the top of a cliff with only a footpath between the end of our front garden and the cliff edge. Still miss those views. The north east coast is beautiful, all cliffs, castles and sandy beaches.
Liked next house but it was a wrench leaving the NE for the NW with husband's employment. We moved to an 18th century cottage in a rural hamlet....culture shock for kids ...but it had a pub ?.
As teenagers aforesaid kids rebelled and we moved into a house in town...modern executive type cul de sac..I had nightmares about that move but was outvoted 3 to 1.
And so to our now house......and I am not moving again ?
Sorry ...very long post

I've liked or loved nearly everywhere I've lived. Near the sea in Dorset as a child, mews flat at the back of Kensington Square, early Victorian terraced house in Brixton, 18th century cottage in Suffolk and now a modern house in France. A few others in between.

We feel very lucky to live here. Our house is on one level, raised up off the ground about 1 to 1 1/2 metres. The south side is floor to ceiling sliding glass doors so visibility is good for catching glimpses of deer and the occasional sparrowhawk trying to pick off a smaller bird. Lots of birds and wild flowers. We're about 600 metres outside a small village with a lovely river through it, a bar next to the river and an old abbey.

We both like ballet and contemporary dance and had access to venues in Cambridge, Norwich, Snape, Ipswich and London. We don't have this now. Bordeaux is our nearest place for dance and it's rather expensive. our finances have gone up and down over the years so sometimes we've sat in the Grand Tier at Covent Garden and other times we've stood at the back of the stalls. Before lockdown a cinema in a nearby town used to take the live broadcasts from the Royal Ballet. 12 euros each for comfortable seats - must more so than the Opera House and fresh coffee in the intervals (free)

I was reluctantly persuaded when engaged, to move from the city to this coastal resort where my husband lived in the same house he had been born in. We, or rather he, chose this bungalow which I used to call ‘Hitler’s Bunker’ with its pebble dash. It’s much prettier now and widowed, I find it suits me, coastal walks, thirty minutes by train to the city and in normal times, plenty of activities in the town. Part of me would love to live in the centre of London and normally I spend as much time travelling about as I can.
I’m someone who loves a frequent change of scene.

We have lived in this house for 35 years since emigrating to Canada from Belfast. I love my house,it’s right on the shores of Lake Huron, cannot wait though for the ice to melt so I can actually see the lake once more!

I have mixed feelings. I have a lovely view of the sea, but ours in a working industrial town, so any access to the ocean is blocked by industry, fishing warehouses or railroad tracks. So you can see it, but can't actually get to it. No beach at all.

The town is smaller, under 20,000 and remote. So nice fresh air and forests all around, but the town itself has become run-down, no main street shops since they have all closed. Our downtown is one closed shop after another, with a few banks, hairdressers and bargain-type shops left. It is a bit depressing.

Saying all that, we do have nice neighbours, 2 of 3 children live nearby and plenty of friends and acquaintances met on daily walks around the neighbourhood. The town has been good to us, providing livelihood, affordable housing, but sometimes I do dream about being less remote with a walk to nice shops.

We retired to a town in Cumbria 6 years ago. Love it here. Fantastic walks from the doorstep, lovely neighbours, lots to do, friends keen to visit. One of our best life decisions!

Thanks MOnica for info.

I love it though it is a bit big now we are getting older. I love the garden, know every plant,tree and shrub and I love the house too. We have a lot of timber walls and wide verandas. We are at the edge of the Yarra Valley wine area but walking distance from some nice shops. You can’t see our neighbours because there are heaps of trees.

I love the town and the house, but it’s turned out after 2years to be noisier than I like. We have landscape area at the front then a road and at the back neighbours who are lovely but noisy and one have also just installed a hot tub behind our fence. I am thinking of moving but don’t know if it’s a good time.

Yes, I also like where we live. Although we just moved here two and half years ago, we seem to have settled in quite comfortably. We've sorted the house out to our liking, got nice neighbours all around us.
Two of our DS live locally, which is why we moved anyway, help with childcare was desperately needed and thankfully that's all going well.
We live close to lovely open countryside and a woods which are great for walks on warmer days!
After a lifetime of much toing and froing, I'm pleased to say this is likely to be our last abode and we're both content to be here.
What more could one ask for?

Have lived where we are for 40 years, a small town that has become run down and has a fair amount of crime and anti social behaviour. We moved here for work, then children completed school here. Husbands family nearby, then our daughter married and lives close so don't want to leave area. Have noticed how much I don't like where we live more since lockdown. Husband still working so seems happy enough. Would like to move to a village in the area with walks close by.

I once lived in a town that was voted the best town to live in: Leigh on sea Essex. What the survey failed to mention was: since the house price boom in the early 2000s it's full of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I still live within walking distance to the sea ( estuary ) 15 drive to airport, less than an hour by train to London.
I love where I am now. Wonderful neighbors.

Chewbacca, what you've written could easily be us. We moved five years ago from a large university city to an area that is now being inundated. It too has been praised by the newspapers as being beautiful and sought after.
Almost every day the local Facebook information group features someone saying they've just moved here or are about to do so. The local estate agents apparently have lists of people who are ready to snap up properties before they come on the market. Houses are going like hot cakes, the traffic has doubled, lots of 4x4s, all the beauty spots are full of parked cars, people and dogs with all the implications for schools and other resources.
I was a bit lukewarm about coming here anyway and now I hate it. Our nice neighbours have moved and we have new, noisy neighbours who are nice enough but not who we'd have chosen to live next door to. I am hoping to move though the virus, staycations and the social upheaval that is happening with the flight from the cities do raise the question of where else might be better!

I live in a Welsh market town, surrounded by range of mountains, not unusual to hear ‘my grandmother went to school with your grandmother’, I love living here but I do not like my bungalow,only one bedroom,

Miss chateline I have worked out where you live from various clues, I won’t tell ! I love to visit your town

I love where I live too, not a million miles away. We have open space and easy access to beautiful countryside.

Yes I like where I live, we've only just moved here, we'd been scouting around possible places to move to for the past five year and this particular town always topped our list. I liked where I lived before, we were so close to The Thames, literally down the bottom of the gardens (communal) it was a lovely spot, in fact beautiful in the summer there were moorings at the bottom of the gardens with small boats bobbing about, and loads of bigger vessels floating by. I miss the river, we sometimes took a ferry service down the river, or maybe it's up? not sure, one way went to Richmond on Thames and the other to Hampton Court plus there were two Royal parks on our doorstep to walk in. However, the house had three floors we always knew all those stairs were going to become onerous in time. Ours has been a bit of a sideways move, more house in square footage, but less stairs, only two floors and a garden of a good size, not too small and not too big, which we have plans for. We are very close to a good sized market town with loads of amenities, well once they open up again, and most of the shops and restaurants we like. We are just into West Sussex, but can see the Surrey Hills in the distance and the south coast is a mere 15 miles away. We are still not too far from London, but far enough away from that slightly oppressive heaving feel that closer in brings of too much traffic and too many people.

Ha ha. This is turning into guess where I live post - but without prizes

Yes, I love where I live. I'm in the countryside and near Dartmoor. It's beautiful here. And only half an hour drive to the sea.