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We've got a "depressing towns" thread but what are the best towns in England to live? (All cities excluded, so cockneys, brummies, micky mousers etc don't recommend your own vile cess pits as being a great place to live- cos they're not!).
I like a lot of the towns in Devon eg Exmouth, Sidmouth for starters
As 99% of all towns in Scotland and Wales would fall into the "Depressing towns" thread, only towns in England qualify. Ta
I like a lot of the towns in Devon eg Exmouth, Sidmouth for starters
As 99% of all towns in Scotland and Wales would fall into the "Depressing towns" thread, only towns in England qualify. Ta
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Shoreham by Sea's nice.
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Edinburgh
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I used to live in Winchester. Only town sized (despite being a city). Was quite nice. Bath, Cheltenham, Bury St Edmunds, all alright too.
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nearly all cost a fortune to live in
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That is, quite literally, the price you pay coachbuster. Your best bet is to live in a nice bit of a cr*p town, or a cr*p bit of a nice town. I live in New Cross in SE London. It has a bad rep, but is actually absolutely fine. You could walk for 10 mins and end up in a complete hellhole though.
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To make matters worse,all these nice places have gone up in price out of all proportion the last 10 years . foreign buyers ?
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My bro lives in Cobham in Surrey, that's a decent place to live.
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Widnes
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It very much depends on what you want and how much money you have.
Chorley Wood in Bucks, for example, recorded the highest smugness rating in a national survey recently as the "happiest town" to live in. Costs an absolute fortune to buy a place though. Similarly, towns like Amersham, Beacosnfield in Bucks and Marlow and Helney by the Thames are splendind; with good schools too. Socially, they're death though. |
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Anywhere south of ther Mersey does not qualify, horrible mother f.....
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lived in Pincott Place HM overlooking haberdashers playing fields
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I used to play Haberdashers Aske at rugby wit-ham, that's a good school and we always got a good battle up there.
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Lewes in Sussex would be a good choice, a bit vegetarian, organic and bohemian, but it does have very fine architecture and the best beer in England.
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Whitby.
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Aldeburgh.
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OK, as a value bet i'm gonna go with SWANAGE
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didnt Beverley win this in a nationwide survey a while ago?
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I also love SWANAGE.
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Canning Town
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In the north (Yorkshire) are some very nice places including Harrogate, Ilkley, Skipton, Otley
York, Wetherby, Easingwold, Stamford Bridge, Driffield, Malton, Boroughbridge, Bedale Helmsley and a fair few others. |
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Harrogate is very nice ,just inherited a bungalow their
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This is very simple.
You only have to look where the immigrants choose to settle. They've shown by their actions where they prefer to live. I doubt if they'd choose any on the places above. |
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LUDLOW LOOKED NICE YEARS AGO
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Got to say that within mainland GB the only place that I'd be tempted to move to is York (OK it's a city), wouldn't mind moving to the channel islands if I had enough dosh though.
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I live in York (well in a village just outside) and can confirm that it's AOK. I would consider moving to somewhere SW/Cotswoldy though, as my two loves are Rugby and NH racing and we get too little high quality action in either up here.
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Why does anybody want to live in a town?
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because they got chucked out of a village?
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newham..nap
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A newspaper ran this a few weeks ago done on an independent study on everything from facilities/house prices/schools/employment & wages etc to measure quality of living.
The winner was Hart; which comprises of Hartley Witney/Fleet/Yateley. I like living in Hart  http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-2078334/Low-crime-high-pay-sun--Hampshire-district-best-place-live-Britain.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/24/north-hampshire-quality-life-survey http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-wealthy-little-corner-of-england-where-the-quality-of-life-comes-first-795009.html |
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Hart looks like the place i'd run a million miles from if i had money - awful /bland in almost every sense of the word
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Without having been there I think that's a rather crass statement to make.
An area where the parks are big and undamaged, where there are green fields, nice countryside, good schools, good job opportunities, low crime, good council facilities and thriving businesses. ...as opposed to having experienced a tough upbringing in a tough council estate where the parks where vandalised and stank of urine, where the filthy pubs were full of parents spending the families little money, where hope had caved in to lethargy, where our house was broken into whilst I slept in my bed and where you were having to fight/run to avoid daily kickings and there was nothing but run down concrete jungles as opposed to lush grass...... Yup, I know which I prefer. |
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...as opposed to having experienced a tough upbringing in a tough council estate where the parks where vandalised and stank of urine, where the filthy pubs were full of parents spending the families little money, where hope had caved in to lethargy, where our house was broken into whilst I slept in my bed and where you were having to fight/run to avoid daily kickings and there was nothing but run down concrete jungles as opposed to lush grass......
_________ i would say that in Hart decency levels and standards generally are very high ,but it's also a wealthy area so you would expect a high level of self preservation -but it's still balnd and lacking character , most people (even on council estates)are quite decent and law abiding folk - unfortunately you get a minority that spoils it for everyone , i don't know the area you were brought up -but it sounds like you did the right thing to move away - i've never known anywhere as bad as that in the UK |
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sounds like Rochdale or thereabouts -
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Been mentioned i know but Harrogate is a fine town,though i suspect rather expensive,other North York towns mentioned above also quite pleasing in their own way eg Skipton,Knaresborough,York etc.Always seem to be rather "darkie" free those towns and in fairness i guess have a middle class "white flight" element to them which makes them so bloody expensive.
York always feels like a village in a city as well and is v genteel even in full tourist season,nowhere near as uncoucth as say Bath which though pleasant seems to be full of cockneys on a day out |
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s'pose the point i'm trying to make charwell is that people who are THAT wealthy generally aren't nice people on the whole - some might be very nice of course,but a lot of them tread on a lot of toes to get where they are ,very few people become wealthy by 'doing the right thing' in life .
i'd sooner live somewhere with real down to earth folk (with values) |
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I'd add Ilkley to that list as well which is basically a smaller version of Harrogate,great countryside as well.Though for living i'd find North Yorks a bit far from sporting action,as Weatherby aside the tracks tend to be flatties.
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Cant be Rochdale sound smore like inner city,Manchester or Liverpool suburbs? to be fair,Rochdale is a horrible depraved shoithole but doesnt have gangs or a particularly violent crime ridden sub culture
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or maybe somewhere in Lithuania
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I haven't been to Hartley Witney, but I have been to Fleet and Yately. They might be 'good places to live' but they are dull as sin, and not especially attractive.
Neither has that intangible something, 'soul' maybe, that quantitative analysis can't take into account. Haven't been to either in about 10 years though, so they may have changed. |