Where would you live? Escape to the country...

A question about : Where would you live? Escape to the country...

In an ideal world where you could work from home and choose to live anywhere, any village/countryside in England/Wales/Scotland where would you live?
As in what part of the country would be your dream town to live in?

Best answers:

• I live in Bedfordshire. Beautiful countryside yet easily commutable from London. Property price is very reasonable in spite of proximity to London.
  After retirement, I prefer to live in Scotland. Would love to move there (lived there before) but can't because lack of jobs.
• Sorry had forgotten to include Scotland to the list, amended now
• The Moray Coast. Beautiful uncrowded. 15 mins from Inverness airport (links to london and Amsterdam for worldwide travel)
  Good local restaurants, friendly people. Stunning Beaches, 30 minutes from skiing in the Cairngorms. Its idyllic.
  Im hoping it stays a secret as i love living here
• I live in Surrey now but would love to retire to somewhere like Cornwall everyone seems happy there by the coast compared to miserable people in Croydon!
• In the UK, probably the Stroud valleys in the Cotswolds, where I grew up.
  Internationally, probably somewhere in Latin America or possibly SE Italy.
• Angus or Perthshire
• I like it here in the New Forest but I would like to live on Dungeness. And, yes, I have seen the power station.
• I'd like Cornwall or Devon somewhere like that.
  It must be lovely to be able to jump in a little boat after you've had your breakfast and go out a catch a couple of fresh fish for your tea.
• I moved to Devon from London 20 years ago. Then Somerset Levels (loved it) Surrey (only 6 months), rural Bedfordshire (hated it), Cotswolds (OK-ish) and now back in Devon. And it really is lovely living here. I'm staying for life (unless the wife wants to leave, which might come about).
  3 bed semi with garage & garden Ј187,000.
• I must admit I'm always astonished when people reply to threads like this by saying "I'm in so-and-so area and where I am is lovely". Its more a case of "Say nowt and then they wont come here too....".
  I was somewhere that us locals like and we didn't need any more people (could have done with some fewer in fact) and we were NOT happy when attempts were made to attract others in.
  Unless of course you are actually in an area that is underpopulated - in which case "Yep....come on in all....this is where it is", as the area needs some more people there.
  I'm in an area now that is underpopulated...but I aint saying..though I would say that ideally the population here needs to be about 3 times as big as it is (ie so that there would be more facilities).
  I tend to have the opinion that probably the best areas of the country are those where those already living there go "Yeh....its okay I suppose...it will do" in a very neutral tone of voice (translation = don't come here. We like it as it is).
• This is the thing about some "further flung" areas. Its true of the area I'm in now.
  There aren't many jobs available in the first place. Add in the fact that it looks rather like even some of the local young people won't get given some of them (ie the public sector ones) because they aren't fluent in Welsh and the primary "qualification" to get at least some of these public sector jobs is deemed to be fluent Welsh, rather than qualifications/experience/etc.
  I've felt very sympathetic to local young people explaining to me how they felt that they weren't being judged for jobs just on things like their qualifications/experience/etc and having a fair "crack of the whip" due to not having that fluency in Welsh.
  How to lose some of your best people from the area...because they've had to move...so no "it aint just house prices forcing them out"...at least not according to the local young people I have been talking to. Good for the rest of the country...because they do seem to expect to have to work hard...but not very good for here.