Things you like and dislike about where you live

[SpokeyDokey]

Lake District (SE).

Upsides:

Beautiful scenery & my beloved mountains are a short drive away.
Friendly people.
Time runs slow.
Space/not crowded.
Housing very cheap (compared to London).

Downsides:

RAIN!

 

[Thomk]

The 10 dogs next door

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When I retire, I shall call my house Dumroamin'

Ngggggg!! DuNroaming!

 

[vernon]

Ngggggg!! DuNroaming!

He's a bit of a dumce. Miss Goodbody has scranbled @Fnaar's imtelligence.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I live in Western Scotland.

I love the sunny weather and the quaint way the people are incomprehensible.
They make a lovely big sausage thing and distill alcohol from inedible grains that gives you enough courage to eat said sausage thing.

I love the horizontal rain and white slushy stuff that comes down (free) with it.

I love the way the stuff they put on the roads to melt the ice, makes my bike rust.

I love the narrow twisty roads and horny animals that prance around on the roads behind each corner.

I love the fiercely independent politics and the locals' fondness for old mossy ruins. I love the way they even make other people pay to see the mossy ruins and buy postcards with pictures of said ruins on them.

I love sheep and stunted horses.

I love boggy ground and monoculture plantations.

I love the way that no road goes as the crow flies but twists for 300 kilometers miles to advance just 60.

I love the way that people travel to far to other counties' dentists 'cause you don't want to get "Argyll teeth now, do you."

I love the beer (really) and I have a thing for men in skirts. The music's shyte though.

I love the way my dogs are welcome anywhere - library, bus or pub.

I love the way all cars have canine passengers.

I miss cats though. What happened to all the cats? What? Not the sausage thing....?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

He's a bit of a dumce. Miss Goodbody has scranbled @Fnaar's imtelligence.

Havimg growm up im a place with two differemt spellimgs, I realise it was probably a joke, but still, I couldm't stop nyself!!

 

[Fnaar]

He's a bit of a dumce. Miss Goodbody has scranbled @Fnaar's imtelligence.

She's helped me get rid of my imhibitions, too.

 

[Cush]

@Cush. Just curious, I'm in High Hesket. Are you nearby?

Shaun

Aglionby.

 

[swee'pea99]

As a Londoner born & bred I've never felt at home anywhere else. I like where I live - lots of nice folk around, lots of variety of folk...very civilised, plenty of good local shopping - easy to find pretty much any kind of foodstuffs nearby - and it's good to have easy access to central London, tho' I don't get in to theatres and the like as much as I'd like, simply because it's so expensive. The only thing I don't like really is the inaccessibility of the countryside. I do envy other CCers' stories about the rides they can do from their front door. The only 'countryside' accessible from mine is Herts/Essex commuter belt country, and pretty uninspiring it is, to say the least. But like I say, other than that it's great. Can't imagine living anywhere else.

 

[The Jogger]

Likes: very near the station,
and two minutes to country lanes.

Dislikes: the bloody level crossing, usually down for a long time and I need to take my dog to the other side of the track and the woods for his walk.

 

[Turbo Rider]

Croydon. Only thing's I don't like are my job and the fact I have no money. Then again, the job is 12 miles away, so I cycle to and from it Monday - Friday and it pays well enough that I can sit writing in the evenings. If I make anything out of the writing though, I'll be trying to relocate back to Wales as soon as I can...so long as I can persuade the others it's a good idea. All in all, life's good and ever so fascinating.

 

[uphillstruggler]

i live in New Bradwell, a small town in the edge of the bigger town of Milton Keynes.

Likes:

the Silver Band at xmas - its a tradition that they play a couple of numbers in each street on Xmas eve and then again in the early morning of xmas day. its hard to explain what this means to me.

the locals really do have an accent. I have lived there on and off for nearly 25 years and I am still not quite a local

we have a good local community. I have some great friends here.

its only a 5 minute walk to the nearest train station - 45 mins to Euston should I need to go into Londinium - the town of my birth.

I cross the main road and I am in the countryside. 10 mins and I am on traffic free roads.

we have a cracking working mens club and a pub that sells the best Guiness this side of the irish sea.

dislikes:

some people leave their rubbish out early.

not enough pubs and little in the way of eateries.

the house prices are lower than most of Milton Keynes (for no reason apart from MK people seem to like their little boxes with no gardens and don't seem to mind paying over the odds for them)

I cant find a slightly bigger house in New Bradwell ( I felt sick last time we ventured out to look at a house in another area - no really)

I don't have a front garden or a garage. (very small dislike, not enough to move)

 

[outlash]

St. Neots. Cambs.

Likes:
It's not East London where I grew up. A hole at best.
Small(ish) town with friendly people.
Nice countryside, at least it's not as flat as the fens to the north east

Dislikes:
It's slowly turning into a commuter town, so that town feel is disappearing. I can see us moving further away when our children grow up.
It's still flat by most people's standards.

Tony.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

St. Neots. Cambs.

Likes:
It's not East London where I grew up. A hole at best.
Small(ish) town with friendly people.
Nice countryside, at least it's not as flat as the fens to the north east

Dislikes:
It's slowly turning into a commuter town, so that town feel is disappearing. I can see us moving further away when our children grow up.
It's still flat by most people's standards.

Tony.

Whenever I get the train on the ECML to/from London, for some daft reason, when I see St Neots, I think I am near to/leaving London and the south east.

Don't ask me why, I just do.

 

[outlash]

I know what you mean. We're in Cambs, but right on the border with Bedfordshire so we're not home counties, but not really East Anglia either. Kind of in the middle. Still 50 miles north of London though thankfully.