Where would you live?

b hill 2

02/04/2012 at 15:19

If you could live anywhere in the UK where would it be and why? Obviously got to have a walking/climbing/outdoorsy emphasis to it. Have had enough of the rat race and am looking to move and looking for suggestions.

Bedouin

02/04/2012 at 15:32

SO poked me in the ribs about Marylebone yesterday but for me it would be a small holding in Somerset.

b hill 2

02/04/2012 at 15:47

With a small holding in mind I'm assuming you're somewhat green fingered then? Any suggestions for something a little lumpier?

Bedouin

02/04/2012 at 15:58

b hill 2 wrote (see)

suggestions for something a little lumpier?

Sorry gonna have to add my own ???

Lumpier?

b hill 2

02/04/2012 at 16:01

Hilly

Bedouin

02/04/2012 at 16:13

The Mendips, Quantocks etc?

I know the area and its farming/agricultural customs i.e. there was always cow shit on the roads into town on a Saturday during my youth when farmers brought there livestock to market. I miss village life!. My local? butcher "The Ginger Pig' is all well and good but it aint Stillmans my childhood butchers. London has been good financially but its rotted the soul.

NickNick

02/04/2012 at 16:15

Yorkshire Dales or the Lake District.

I like the scenery and the walking there.

StoneHuggingHippy

02/04/2012 at 17:08

I'm an ancient history buff first, a hiker second, though the two marry very well, therefore i'd choose Wiltshire, and in particular Avebury, if i could afford it.

Include a little history in your walks. Pecsaetan - Ancient Derbyshire, Staffordshire and South Yorkshire - http://pecsaetan.weebly.com/

philip lenaghan

02/04/2012 at 17:11

North Yorkshire. I lived there for nearly 2 years and if I had to go back to the UK I would go back there. Choices of hills (Dales, Lakes, Peak District, Moors, scotland at a push) and not far from the sea either. Down to earth people, good local produce (butchers that still sell locally shot pheasant, rabbits etc.), real pubs with real beer.

Bedouin

02/04/2012 at 17:27

I think that the more important question here is WHY people don't live where they want!

Martin Carpenter

02/04/2012 at 18:10

Well most of the really tempting places on an a priori basis for walking don't offer great options for anything much else.

North yorkshire certainly good, also Manchester and the area round there do let you hit an awfully large percentage of the really good English hills whilst still being big enough places for everything else. Or Newcastle etc.

Must of course be some similarly very well placed towns/cities in Scotland, probably with better hills too

StoneHuggingHippy

02/04/2012 at 18:20

Bedouin wrote (see)

I think that the more important question here is WHY people don't live where they want!

For me it's the small problem of finding £300'000, and the village has no school.

Include a little history in your walks. Pecsaetan - Ancient Derbyshire, Staffordshire and South Yorkshire - http://pecsaetan.weebly.com/

Mrs. Nesbit

02/04/2012 at 18:29

Cumbria's good. Relatively low population density, Lakes on doorstep, Scottish Highlands 3 hours away.

Kinley

02/04/2012 at 18:30

Mrs. Nesbit wrote (see)

Scottish Highlands 3 hours away.

Only the bits crawling with weegies.

Mrs. Nesbit

02/04/2012 at 18:35

Nah. We pass Loch Lomond after about 1hr 45mins and from there on it's just refined Embra types and English folk

Kinley

02/04/2012 at 18:36

You're speeding.

ed h

02/04/2012 at 18:40

He must be to think Embra types are refined...

Martin Carpenter

02/04/2012 at 18:42

Talking of Cumbria, Kirkby Stephen would certainly work in terms of location very near a huge range of hills. On the train to Leeds/Carlisle too.

Although those trains do also mean that you can be there in a hour or two from a lot of other places.....

Edited: 02/04/2012 at 19:11

Paddy Dillon

02/04/2012 at 18:56

Can't see me changing my contact details any time soon!

Cumbria Way on my doorstep...

An hour's bus-ride to some great Lakeland walks...

Two hours on the train to the airport for the rest of the world!

cathyjc

03/04/2012 at 00:21

Scottish Borders.
You can live in a hilly bit and have access to both the Lakes and the Highlands in a couple of hours. The Borders are 'less well trod' and relatively cheap property wise. Where we are in upper Clydesdale its around about an hour to almost anywhere in the central belt if you need city type facilities. Folks are bit old fashioned and communities are still 'intact'. I cannot think of anywhere I would rather be.

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