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Your home's location: likeable?
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Where do you live?
a remote village, outskirts of town or amongst concrete jungle
The location of your home can turn you into a recluse, make a car a necessity and dictate your shopping frequency.
Do you like where you live?
a remote village, outskirts of town or amongst concrete jungle
The location of your home can turn you into a recluse, make a car a necessity and dictate your shopping frequency.
Do you like where you live?
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ETA: We have a few local shops and a social club about 10 minute walk from my house. There's a community centre and scout hut inbetween the shops and my house. It's a 10 minute bus journey into the town centre (about 30 min walk on a good day), buses are twice an hour but the fare has just gone up. It's nearly as cheap getting a return to Newcastle than it is getting a return into town.
I'm about a 20 minute walk/10 minute bus journey to the nearest beach.
Got back to Essex on Saturday for Easter hols, and you notice the difference straight away, its ten times quieter, everythings far away, and to make matters worse my car is undriveable right now so im pretty much stuck at home
Always lived not far from town centres and local amenities since moving to London at 11 years old. Before that we lived in a town of 110, 000 and needed a car for convenience!
There are fields behind us with no development allowed to take place because the fields are on the skyline.
I would like to live closer to the city centre on the one hand - but I do like the tranquillity of being on the outskirts.
So I am 90% happy about where we live.
But at least you're guaranteed a peaceful night's sleep, which is something.
We actually have 5 cars between 3 of us who can drive but 3 are classics and are not working/need maintenance/MOT etc, and I am only insured to drive mine which is waiting for new brake pads... thats what you get for buying a 40 year old car over something reliable
I do use a car quite often because my mum lives a 30minute drive away, my mother in law is a 10minute drive away and if i need speciality shops i would need to drive anything between 5mins (on the motorway) to 45mins (also on the motorway).
I'm near family too- makes the weekend visits a bit simpler
Hope finding somewhere to park 5 cars isn't a problem- at least not much restricted parking or residents permit to buy in villages
You make me envious- trains run behind me and busy road in front!
I think we're officially classed as rural, but as you can see, not a million miles from civilisation. I love where I live
As for the commercial scene, if there's not at least one store of the kind you'd want there is one in a nearby suburb. Although this being a capital city, distances don't matter so much.
It quiet enough to get away with shit, and close enough to town for a good night out. Love it.
uni house in canterbury is on a student road but it's not noisy or anything. canterbury is gorgeous and i need to explore more. i just hate the bus station after 3pm. it's helllllllllll
my fingers are ridiculously crossed for moving to derry next year. i'm a sucker for the typical irish stony walls. i love walls, me.
the right side of derry? if we were going to move there thsi summer we'd be living with his dad for a bit. he lives somewhere in derry but my sense of direction is poor despite having been there before
Your description reminds me of the 'ideal' property to entertain house hunters
Only problem is several run down bad estates near by that are slowly expanding and bringing the surounding areas down to thier level.
Whereas I spend term time living in a city centre flat with all its convience and troubles (like the night club directly over the road that plays music so loud it keeps me awake grr)
Come september I'll be moving into student suburbs instead, which I have yet to decide if its good or bad.
Canterbury? I love Canterbury. I think everyone should come here.
its great. its on a really nice street too, really quiet.
If it had an extra bedroom and was actually mine rather than rented, id be a happy bunny
Still I'm very urban. I have everything I need in my vicinity and it's only 30 minutes to the inner city.
Besides that, its in the suburbs. Things are close, a plethora of grocery stores are about 1 mile away but I hate shopping so I only go to stock up and must drive... not to say that I wouldn't drive anyways of course.
I grew up in a small town and I used to think driving 20 miles (15 minutes drive) to the next town to go to the Target was quite close and no big deal, now I get pissed off and won't go if something is half the distance away. Granted my job is 7 miles away and takes 30 minutes... that might have something to do with it.