General Chat

Suzanne, well you are in good company now I think, isn't Prince William living on Anglesey with his fiancee?

I hope your o.h. realises how much you are giving up for him and will take you out and about to more places or at least to Cardiff very often.

Lizx

the most miserable place to live has got to be anglesey,lovely for one month in summer,and raining for the next 11months,it really is a sh-- place to live for the weather,you may say "wh dont you leave"the answer to that question is,im a scouser married to a welsh man,he thinks he needs his passport to cross menia bridge.xx the place to live is cardiff,my hubby and i went there last month for the wkend and i loved it,a great place to have a short break ,noone looked out of place,it didnt matter what you wore you fitted in somewhere,a great place,cant wait to go back.x

I lived perfectly happily on Gosport in the 60s. Wouldn't like to live in Portsmouth itself as it is too built up, but not boring, no way with the docks, museums, beach etc etc. Strangely when I visited Edinburgh I found it vaguely depressing. it is the old addage of beauty being in the eye of the beholder. Also used to like Southampton when I was younger but it has changed a lot now like most cities.

I had to spend far too many years in Croydon and I have to say that if planet Earth had haemorroids they would hang out in Croydon. The place is the ars**ole of the universe!
I'm back home again now in North Devon (which is utterly, completely different from south Devon) and it is, now the tourists have all gone home, Beeeautiful.
Mind you I can't wait to get off to New Zealand for the winter.

A lot depends on which part of the city you are talking about.

There are some very nice places to live in Sheffield and some equally grotty ones in Liverpool.

I lived in Edinburgh for nearly 3 yars and loved it..Glasgow is nice to..Have visited Newcastle which was ok...Have been to lots of places in England and Scotland to many to mention here...Norfolk is great to.....
I think Portsmouth is not a place I would like to live or Gosport for that matter (have for a short while though and hated it....Its so boring.....)
Now living in Wiltshire and love it here!!!

Jules x

I would sooner live in Pompey than Southampton, especially Southsea which is still a bit like the fifties and sixties in atmosphere.
If I never go to London again I won't mind.
Place I have been to would not live by choice include where I would not live by choice include Stoke-on-Trent, Preston, Harrogate and Stafford.

Love most towns in the Welsh Valleys and Ireland.

I often wonder what my life would have been like had my parents stayed near or in Buckingham close to where Dad was born and where they first lived when married. My Mum and Gran didn't get on so my parents moved back to Norwich before I arrived and I really don't know Buckinghamshire very well, having only visited three or four times.

I went to live in Cambridge in the late 1960s, and loved it there too, altho I think it's different now, haven't been back for about ten years. I did miss being within a short drive of the coast tho and that would have been the same in Bucks.

I know the coast of Norfolk pretty well from so many visits over time. I suppose Norfolk was my destiny/fate but would love the chance to live in many other places to try them out, maybe I will live somewhere lovely in my next life lol

Lizx

Hi DizzieLizzie,

Sitting comfortably off your soap box I hope.

During my working life I spent lots of time in London- in the City- staying in central London hotels. Loved working in the fast moving City, but I would not choose to live in London.
Many of my Colleagues lived in that area and would often tell me about their horrendous travel problems and the high everyday cost of living.

I like most places I have visited and would love to try living in many of them for six months or more, I hate leaving a new place after a couple of weeks holiday knowing there is so much more to see and do. I loved my short visit to Liverpool and would happily go back and also Glasgow when I stayed in Scotland in 2000.

I think I can make a home and friends whereever I land up, a place is what you make it really.

Deanna, I was just curious as to what other's thougth of the daft lists lol

Lizx

Hi Fiona (the Mackem!!)

I am also very fond of the city of Sunderland - and Roker And Seaburn.

You are very very lucky living where you do, convenient for Edinburgh and Glasgow where you get the best of both worlds.

Trying to plot where you are is not easy- Lanarkshire? Ayrshire? Perthshire?.
I give up.

Geordie Jock.

the most miserable place to live?

Anywhere which is NOT MY home.
Other than that, I can live anywhere as long as I have my loved ones.

I was an Army baby.... we got used to moving around all the time.
AND I had an amazing mother who made every house we ever had a home, no matter how long we were there.

Not what you meant Liz?
Still, it is my experience.
Deanna X

I live 30mins from Glasgow and an hour from Edinburgh and love both Cities for different reasons. Both have as Robert said lots to offer.
yes ok the weather here in Scotland does get me down sometimes but today the sun is out and its dry and bright, a lovely winters day.

A wearside lass from Sunderland who has lived in Scotland for about 20 years.

Contrary - I would never thought of Southampton as being a happy city! Much prefer Liverpool. Not very fond of cities but like, York, Chester and Salisbury.

Having also worked for short spells in Liverpool, Birmingham and London, I would put Liverpool high up on the list, Birmingham pretty far down and London at the very bottom.

Made me smile that the Canary Islands Tourist Board did the survey - what on earth for?

Lizx

that has cheered me up Newcastle Joint 2nd that`ll do me fine

Linda.

What a lot of rubbish!!!!

I have worked in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle and as places to live in, I would put Edinburgh first with Newcastle and Glasgow joint second.

All three Cities have so much to offer.

Geordie Jock.

Some parts of Cardiff are lovely.

I really like living where I do, but the nearest town fared very badly in a book of c**p towns.
I wonder who they ask.

Gwyn

Well, I'm not that far from Southampton.......so maybe I should cheer up and stop being a miserable old so and so! LOL

Mary