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Do you like where you live, if not where would your ideal home be?

I currently live just outside a seaside town, it's quite pleasant. My ideal home though would be somewhere deep in the heart of the countryside.
 
I live on the outskirts of a small ex-market town and conservation area. I like where I am: almost equidistant from Glasgow, Prestwick and Edinburgh Airports and only ten minutes from a motorway. There's also a small airport on the other side of the town but I think it might be private. I keep meaning to check it out!

Not far to train stations to Glasgow or south if necessary. Early direct bus to Glasgow for workers.

Good neighbours, no neds.

Plenty of fresh air.

Classy hotel only two minutes' walk from front door, ideal for a decent meal and a drink without worrying about driving home or taxis.

My ideal home would be a villa on the Costa Blanca.
 
Well Ive gone with out in the sticks, cos currently I do. This time next week though, I shall be back in Poole,which is a costal town - fairly big, but not too far to go to get to the countryside(not that its anything like this!!)
 
I live in a town which has been used to cope with the over-spill from London. it's a pretty awful place now. In an ideal world id like to live like The Good Life, and be out in the sticks!
 
We live in a lovely village with good schools and 3 good pubs not far from Wantage. Love it here and wouldn't change it for the world - the only thing I do regret is that all the racing yards have gone.
 
At the moment I'm living in Oxted, a small town in east Surrey, just outside the M25.

Talking of Poole, I spent many happy times there at my grandparents, who lived opposite the Poole Park Middle Gates, and I lived in Bournemouth for many years as a boy. I still go there occasionally, as my parents moved back to Bournemouth some years ago.

Poole has certainly changed, the fancy marina area used to be a fairly grotty old docks back in the 50s.
 
I live 8 miles South of Dublin in a suburb. 5 Mins to the coast at Sandycove, 10 Mins to the bottom of the Sugar Loaf - so the best of both worlds. It's close to what is known as the 'ratatouille' coast (Monkstown to Dalkey) - lots of pretensious restaurants full of smug gits, but there are also reasonable places to eat too. Love where I live. Lots of golf courses and pleasant walks.

Downside - I am native Northsider and I am surrounded by 'Dort' speak psuedos. Even my daughter has lost a couple of the more slender vowels.
 
I live in Mansfield, pretty backward ex-mining town but its been smartened up a bit in the last couple of years and theres been a bit of investment in the area. The new mayor has done a decent job and finally theres been some visual evidence of improvement, I imagine I won't be yearning to get back when I go to Uni but theres plenty of worse places to live.
 
Originally posted by jairducochetfan@Jun 9 2007, 06:09 PM
I live in Mansfield, pretty backward ex-mining town but its been smartened up a bit in the last couple of years and theres been a bit of investment in the area. The new mayor has done a decent job and finally theres been some visual evidence of improvement, I imagine I won't be yearning to get back when I go to Uni but theres plenty of worse places to live.
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Helmand
Baghdad
and Shirebrook come to mind

There's actually been huge investment in the wider District if the truth were told JdCF, (but you'd be bring Ashfield and Bassetlaw into the equation by then) it's just that you haven't necessarily seen the evidence/ benefits of it. I congratulate you on being prepared to own up to it though
 
From the sticks originally but pretty much living in the centre of Dublin now - ten minutes walk away from most things of note. I wouldn't swap where I currently live for anywhere else in Ireland at this stage in my life, but couldn't imagine living here when I head into my 30's
 
Best thing that ever happened to them, AC.

Originally from Artane in Dublin myself, but sick of living somewhere that hadn't had a Group 1 winner named after it I'm now in Islington, North London.

Which rules.
 
I live in a little Northamptonshire village - it's ok but I'd like to live somewhere more rural and somewhere with less traffic and fewer townies who think they're living the rural idyll!!!!
 
A small town called Gainsborough 20 miles north of Lincoln. My ideal place is Cambridge, no place I have ever lived (and I have lived in a lot) comes close to Cambridge
 
7 miles from Brum city centre. I love it here and could never move to the country. I would go bonkers with not having things on my doorstep.
 
Originally posted by Muttley@Jun 9 2007, 08:14 PM
I live in a little Northamptonshire village
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For some unknown reason I thought you lived near Dims shrug::

I live in a small town in South Essex, lived here since 1994,
Born & bred in Bath until 1990 before spending a while in villages called Merriott & Ilchester.
 
Originally posted by ovverbruv@Jun 9 2007, 07:42 PM
My ideal place is Cambridge, no place I have ever lived (and I have lived in a lot) comes close to Cambridge
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Well I work in Oxford (15 years too late) thoroughly enjoy that aspect of it, but can't afford to live there (few can). We've got a lot of white tie balls at the moment and that's what it is. Do I hate the students? With a few exceptions they aren't that bad, though hopelessly unaware of stuff. They'll nearly always talk to you though. They aren't that sniffy (they after all the upper class rather than the middle) but the city has another side too. It's certainly no where near as bad as what I've been used to and what I've grown up with, but I don't mind stopping the policeman trying to arrest the latest beggar who can't understand the polarity in society. Sure i've sat down (even in the cold of winter) whilst waiting for a bus, and said "I'll talk to yee". Never once have I felt threatend.

Oxbridge is kind of false, when I've got to pissed crashing into various balls (the social event) and missed my train again, and had to rely on the X5, I've come across many a terrible case, yet 1,000 yds away future Secretarys of State, Prime Ministers, and Captains of Industry gnaw their teeth.

On Balance I like the city, probably for the same reasons Mike alludes to with Cambridge. Sure I enjoy having my lunch time pint with the Custodians of Christchurch College (they all enjoy racing) and their tie gets you entry to some well known courses (apparently). I haven't been issued with it yet :laughing: But they tell some lovely stories about (not least of which being when they kicked Bill Clinton out). And he was a former Pres at the time. That's a great one actually because it just goes to show what grip that place gets on you.
 
Is Faringdon a town or is it rural? I plumped for rural because it's very quiet, hardly any traffic and there's nothing here except pubs and fields :laughing: My old haunt of Milton Keynes is a town and Faringdon is far removed from that so surely it's rural?

I've never felt settled here and I go through phases of passionately hating the place, followed by periods of actually quite liking it.
 
Just down the road from Ian and Griffin in Wantage itself.
Been here for 4 1/2 years now and I like it,nice and peaceful compared with my home town of York and Oxford not too far away.
 
Brighton - chock-full of eateries of every possible persuasion, bars, clubs, pubs, a great seafront, lovely big parks, most of what I need is within 30 seconds' to 5 minutes' walking distance, 1m 2f from the course, easy access countryside with open skies and sweeping vistas, friendly and easygoing place, masses to see, do, and join if one likes that sort of thing, surrounded by small galleries exhibiting local arts and crafts, great coastal and Downs walks. Very cosmopolitan place as loads of incoming visitors, students, and seasonal workers from all over the world.

Like any very popular, thriving seaside place, it's noisy and stuffed full of visitors during 'the season', but having lived previously in St Ives (Cornwall), Torquay (Devon) and Port Elizabeth (S. Africa), I'm used to that.
 

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