Do you like where you live

Suburban South west London and very happy, been in this house since '97, could with another bedroom but we mand age with two. Near Royal park, good doctor round the corner, station up the road and when we're allowed to travel again, free public transport. Very good library service, can't see us ever moving.

A former mining village, now a small town, near but not part of a large conurbation. Quick access to the motorway network and airport. There's a variety of countryside close by - hills and dales, canal-side and river bank walks too. Plenty of shops - 3 supermarkets and plenty of eateries too. I like it, having been here for 20+ years, but don't love it enough to want to spend the rest of my life here.

Twenty five years ago. myself. and now late DH. took early retirement and bought our 'dream home' that was one of several properties being built but a mile from a beautiful sandy beach.No shops/etc etc no public transport then or now but heyho who needs these when old age is the last thing on your mind.My then, now also late mother. as was her usual all 'doom and gloom'self heard to say, when on her first visit 'what will you do when you are old ?hmm]how old is old? I can never see myself living any where else.

I love where I live. A bit too suburban but with the advantages of all amenities, GP, supermarkets, schools, library etc a walk away, good road and rail connections and with countryside nearby. I have a lovely bungalow and garden which I love. I feel very lucky.

I'm on the coast with 3+ beaches to choose from, and more a short drive away. Lots of pretty villages not too far away to visit too.

My town has enough character buildings, cottages, old lanes etc to give a feeling of the past. There are rivers to walk along, hills as a backdrop and farmland surrounding it. I like the mixed demographic, and every type of housing you can think of. Something for every one.

One place I lived in was so 'desirable' the people [not all of them obviously] there were very stuck up and territorial it was unpleasant both for residents [if they had a manual job] and incomers.

Yes, I do. It’s quiet, but well placed for getting out and about into countryside, buzzing cities or good towns with independent shops and great pubs and restaurants. Everything we need’s easy to get to. We’ve a good community, lovely neighbours and plenty going on. The only things we’re short of are a station and the sea. And the one thing I really do miss is living by the sea.

I am not totally in love with our place, but I don't think we will move. To find somewhere we both like, and can afford, would be difficult and expensive. We have appreciated having the space indoors and out, especially during lockdown.

I love the fact that we have plenty of space for parking, no worries on noise from neighbours although we can see several and they are lovely. We are 3 miles from the nearest shop or pub, which is a bit too far.

We are on the edge of a AONB and 3 miles from the sea, which I love.

We love our village house in rural France, so peaceful and space for our animals. I do worry a little about being closer to amenities we have to drive to the local shop and town, there is no public transport.
Ideally I would like to live by the sea but I'm happy here.

Yes GagaJo life changes and in the past we have always been happy to move home to accommodate those changes....hence so many moves.
But now I feel so reluctant to even change colour scheme ?. Don't know if it is age related or I am just content.

To be honest Calendargirl,i only know is it`s because they are stinking rich ,it`s just a saying iv`e heard the whole of my life.

I love where I live. I once preferred living in a remote cottage, but now I am disabled and in poor health I need to be nearer to hospitals and shops so I’m glad we moved. I miss walking on the moors but I could no longer manage it anyway.

I used to really like where I lived. It suited my life 10 years ago when I moved there. But my life has changed so much, that I am starting to wonder if I should do the house up and move. BUT given that I won't have a regular income soon, and also that it costs SO much to move house, wonder if I should just put up with it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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,

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 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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Thanks MOnica for info.

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!

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.