Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:13 am
But that puts you a few hours from ‘people’ so would defeat my objective …ZedLeg wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 12:07 am to never be more than a few hours away from decent restaurants
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Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:42 am
I wouldn’t like to live anywhere else for more than a month - I’m far too invested here to pack it all up and go. Plus being medically uninsurable would limit me to free healthcare countries 
London is the best city in the world for me and it’s a pretty quick train journey to Europe.
There’s also little freedoms we can still enjoy in the UK.
It’s a good country to be a petrolhead. You can drive any car you want as nothing is yet outright banned. You can wash a car at home. Modification is freely allowed. Huge motorsport industry.
Other stuff would be taxes are low compared to neighbours. I can go to B&Q now and buy a summer house and a decking kit and put it together in the garden without consequence. In a few countries that would automatically increase council tax as satellites look out for that now.
Europe - miserable in the evenings in most places as everything closes past 6pm aside from restaurants. No going to Tesco at midnight to buy cookie dough ice cream. Final nail in the coffin.
London is the best city in the world for me and it’s a pretty quick train journey to Europe.
There’s also little freedoms we can still enjoy in the UK.
It’s a good country to be a petrolhead. You can drive any car you want as nothing is yet outright banned. You can wash a car at home. Modification is freely allowed. Huge motorsport industry.
Other stuff would be taxes are low compared to neighbours. I can go to B&Q now and buy a summer house and a decking kit and put it together in the garden without consequence. In a few countries that would automatically increase council tax as satellites look out for that now.
Europe - miserable in the evenings in most places as everything closes past 6pm aside from restaurants. No going to Tesco at midnight to buy cookie dough ice cream. Final nail in the coffin.
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:48 am
Right now I don't think I'd want to live anywhere permanently other than London. Don't want to live here forever, but not sure where I would want to go. I'd love to live by the sea for sure though.
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 11:11 am
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Dinny 6 months after he moves to his dream house
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Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 11:13 am
Ahem.. that’s me now???
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 1:08 pm
I like my little Luxembourg, it's quite civilised and multicultural, safe and really rather pretty in an olde world kinda way. It doesn't have what one would call a vibrant big city vibe, which can get boring at times. But Paris is only a two and a half hours TGV ride away, London about an hour flight, Brussels an easy two hour drive.
One of the best things for me is the vicinity to Spa Francorchamps and the Nürburgring, both an hour and a half drive (an hour if you don't catch any traffic to the 'Ring
).
An alternative would be Bavaria I reckon.
One of the best things for me is the vicinity to Spa Francorchamps and the Nürburgring, both an hour and a half drive (an hour if you don't catch any traffic to the 'Ring
).An alternative would be Bavaria I reckon.
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 3:25 pm
I’d quite like to live in Alsace tbh. I’d rather live by the sea though.
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 4:07 pm
What Mito said, there are a lot of freedoms in the U.K. and certainly more than their dare share of big issues in Europe.Mito Man wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:42 am I wouldn’t like to live anywhere else for more than a month - I’m far too invested here to pack it all up and go. Plus being medically uninsurable would limit me to free healthcare countries
London is the best city in the world for me and it’s a pretty quick train journey to Europe.
There’s also little freedoms we can still enjoy in the UK.
It’s a good country to be a petrolhead. You can drive any car you want as nothing is yet outright banned. You can wash a car at home. Modification is freely allowed. Huge motorsport industry.
Other stuff would be taxes are low compared to neighbours. I can go to B&Q now and buy a summer house and a decking kit and put it together in the garden without consequence. In a few countries that would automatically increase council tax as satellites look out for that now.
Europe - miserable in the evenings in most places as everything closes past 6pm aside from restaurants. No going to Tesco at midnight to buy cookie dough ice cream. Final nail in the coffin.
Dave!
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:27 pm
I'm very happy exactly where I am, and having the caravan exactly where its stored.
I'd live on the lake my uncle lives on in New Hampshire if I was single and had no ties over here, its very lovely.
I'd live on the lake my uncle lives on in New Hampshire if I was single and had no ties over here, its very lovely.
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:57 pm
As long as I dont have to work then it'd be 6 months in a big hoose in Arnamurchan; then the balance would be travelling between the current place (High Peak) and somewhere sunny. That's all i want.
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 7:03 pm
Perfectly happy here.
In an ideal world I’d buy the house joined to ours making it a nice size detached and allow some alterations to the parking / build a workshop
In an ideal world I’d buy the house joined to ours making it a nice size detached and allow some alterations to the parking / build a workshop
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 9:00 pm
I'm slowly beginning to detest what this country is becoming, and were it not for the family ties and money I think we'd be off to southern Portugal. Of all the places we've been to across Europe - France, Belgium, Holland, Spainish islands, Greece, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic and Germany, Portugal is the first place that we really didn't want to leave and come home from.
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 8:37 am
Yeah, I'm quite happy where I am in Suffolk too.
Wouldn't mind a holiday home somewhere warm for the winters, where I can have a car and bike tucked in a garage waiting for me...but wouldn't we all?
Re: Where would you live?
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:38 pm
In 10 years the kids will all be grown up and setting out on their own. I'll be 57 so can move away but I'd always see myself coming back to Gloucestershire.