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Find the best place for you to live

(70 Posts)
jinglbellsfrocks Tue 21-Apr-15 12:36:02

take the test

Teetime Tue 21-Apr-15 17:13:21

My worst was Carlisle which I quite liked when I was there a couple of years ago apart from not being able to park in the town centre so couldnt go out for our meal and ended up back at the hotel. Too cold for me though.

Soutra Tue 21-Apr-15 17:14:50

I got Oxford too! I would be perfectly happy with that if the pension stretched to one of the most expensive cities to buy in sad

Greenfinch Tue 21-Apr-15 17:38:45

Hambleton for me. I wasn't sure where that was but when I found out I thought I would be quite happy there as my father came from the NE and I have always loved it there.

soontobe Tue 21-Apr-15 17:42:43

Best Gedling.
Worst South Ribble.

Seems like a lot of gransnetters have the same personality as those living in Oxford.

janerowena. Yours is right though. You like a person, or have the same personality as the people in the place it wants to send you to.

janerowena Tue 21-Apr-15 18:18:41

I suppose you are right. Except she doesn't want to be there either. grin She's only there because she has a very good job there.

loopylou Tue 21-Apr-15 18:50:05

Purbeck, Dorset for me - I'm very happy with that, only problem is I can't afford it grin

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 21-Apr-15 18:58:10

blush I have just noticed I put this thread under Competitions! I meant to put it under Chat!

Should I tell someone? shock

Maggiemaybe Tue 21-Apr-15 19:11:08

What? You mean you're not going to hand out a small but valuable prize to everyone who's entered responded? grin

Ana Tue 21-Apr-15 19:13:27

I thought the prize was going to be a des res in our area of choice...hmm
grin

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 21-Apr-15 19:14:36

grin

I am really sorry to disappoint everyone! grin

Maggiemaybe Tue 21-Apr-15 19:19:21

How disappointing! A bijou cottage in Hart would have done nicely. I'd best get on with building that croft in the Outer Hebrides then.

Maggiemaybe Tue 21-Apr-15 19:22:09

DH has built up a useful stock of officers of rotten old wood in the cellar, fortunately. grin

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 21-Apr-15 19:22:30

Yes. I think you had. hmm grin

harrigran Tue 21-Apr-15 19:22:35

Best South Norfolk, worst Ealing, I agree with that it would be my real nightmare.

Maggiemaybe Tue 21-Apr-15 19:23:18

Offcuts! Though those military men would come in useful right now.

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 21-Apr-15 19:24:15

I read somewhere that Hart is the best place to live in the whole country, so if they came up with that for you....!

Maggiemaybe Tue 21-Apr-15 19:25:09

smile

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 21-Apr-15 19:25:57

I've been to Fleet Pond. I didn't like it much

Galen Tue 21-Apr-15 19:39:21

Craven? No way, I'm no northerner

merlotgran Tue 21-Apr-15 19:41:36

I've done it three times and they keep trying to send me oop north.

Too cold. I'm a nesh southerner.

hildajenniJ Tue 21-Apr-15 20:03:52

Best place for me is Cherwell, Oxfordshire apparently! I have never been to Oxford!
Worst place for me to live is Scarborough, I like Scarborough! I have had some lovely holidays there. Oh phooey!!!

rosequartz Tue 21-Apr-15 20:04:31

I wish I was back in sunny Devon smile
Where it rains six days out of seven!

rosequartz Tue 21-Apr-15 20:09:37

The best place for me would be Craven, but that is only 2% above where I live now, so, presuming removal costs to be about £15,000, I will stay where I am!

Apparently the nearest 'best place' for me would be Bath. I love Bath but probably couldn't afford to move there.

Ana Tue 21-Apr-15 20:17:29

I'm supposed to move to the Wirral, but it would only give me 5% more life satisfaction so I don't think I'll bother!

It annoyed me that they spelled 'introversion' wrongly all the way through...(intraversion).

rosequartz Tue 21-Apr-15 20:19:56

The BBC can't spell any more.

Have you looked at the sub-titles lately?