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leaving london for good....

butterfly child said:
Our plan is to move here:
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I'm imagining you'll be like this when you do
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*eta* it just reminds me of Portmeirion
 
I was shopping in Covent Garden today and having lunch and it was great watching the people and walking around. That is what I like about London :)
 
ska invita said:
Also, call me racist, but I dont really like living in all-white areas... coming back to London from holidays in the rest of the country (or europe for that matter), one of the most pleasant moments is feeling part of the spectrum of the human race again... for me the diversity of people living in london is definitely its greatest asset.
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I live in Bristol in a really ethnically mixed area but its only one of a few. The one thing I do miss London for is that regardless of where you go it is pretty mixed -unlike Bristol.
 
hmm I want to live by the sea eventually, (Brighton is like London on sea after all ;)) but until I have a well paid job I can do mobile/from home it aint gonna happen! :D

I think it'll be hard though, cos I left for nearly 3 years and hated it :(

Spion mkae s a good point about uisng London's full potential. :cool:
 
zenie said:
hmm I want to live by the sea eventually, (Brighton is like London on sea after all ;)) but until I have a well paid job I can do mobile/from home it aint gonna happen! :D
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I'd always wanted to live in Brighton, I put my council flat on the exchange book for there, but no-one replied.
I did leave London for a few months and lived in Margate, but it was in winter and after the novelty of being by the sea wore off I was bored most of the time. Trouble with a lot of seaside places is that they shut down after the summer.
 
trashpony said:
That's the plan in a few years' time. We are planning on moving to the seaside so that I can work freelance part-time and have more time with Elliot (can't afford to do that with the mortgage I have now). I want to be there for school holidays and after school rather than doing all that juggling childcare stuff
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This is one of the only things that draws me away from London - the sea not you and Elliott! :D

But not in any hurry to move from here just yet.
 
zenie said:
hmm I want to live by the sea eventually, (Brighton is like London on sea after all ;)) but until I have a well paid job I can do mobile/from home it aint gonna happen! :D

I think it'll be hard though, cos I left for nearly 3 years and hated it :(

Spion mkae s a good point about uisng London's full potential. :cool:
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much as I like brighton, it really isn't London on sea. Ethnically cleansed Islington or Stoke Newington on sea, perhaps... but London on Sea no

*eta* being a bit harsh on Brighton. It's a top place for its size, but..
 
I wouldn't leave anywhere else in the UK but then I ain't originally from this island so moving back to where I'm from/moving somewhere else is a distinct possibility.
 
I'm happy in London, been here a long time - I love having access to everything around me - good resturants, nightlife, everything open 24 hours and having great choice of all this on my doorstep if I don't feel like going far - I can't see me leaving anytime soon but have been thinking that it would be nice to retire abroad - although I would only do that if it was somewhere that I had built up a network of friends.
 
Maybe one day.

I'd have to live in a city/big town - I really think that's part of me - but not, i think, one that was all hustle and bustle and london-lite. So not manc or briz or brighton.

I quite fancy oxford.

Alternatively, if the boyfriend wants to get a job somewhere fabulous and sunny, that'll be great. My skills are pretty much 'go-anywhere', so it would rely on him finding a job first...
 
I've left London for good, but I only lived there for a couple of years anyway. It was fun at the time, but not somewhere I would want to settle and have a family. I've moved back nearer my family and where I grew up now, but still in a city, and eventually I'd like to end up in Wilts, Dorset, Somerset maybe Gloucestershire - a small town/big village with a pub, shops, primary school and railway station will do me nicely :cool:
 
If we just rented then we would be gone by now my attachment is to friends and home not so much London..

I don't seem to be making the most of London but I know it's there if I want it.
 
I stood on the train platform this morning, the cold drizzle falling, then got on a packed train with my hand hanging on to rail with a random woman leaning her head on my shoulder. Was unable to get on a tube and London Bridge, walked to Bank, was unable to get on a there so walked to St Pauls in the rain. This is the London I don't like, getting around is such hard work. This is why I have stopped seeing people who I would consider close friends. Everyone says there is so much on your doorstep here, but it doesn't feel like your door step when it takes 2 hours to get there.

We loved going to Barcelona last year and that felt like the city I want London to be - lively, exciting and friendly. We also have heard good things about Valencia too.
 
We're gonna move out of London, but probably not for another 4 years because of the slow down in the economy etc. I love London but want to get more property for my money and be as close to the coast as possible. We discussed moving to Ireland but missuses family are here and it was I who moved here, not her to Ireland.
 
Boris Sprinkler said:
i did. Do miss it sometimes, but that is more my friends and areas of familiarity.

Funnily enough, got headhunted on Friday for a very well paid job at an investment bank in London. However, don't think I could leave here and it's an investment bank...
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Must have been a spoof geeze
An IB?
Unless you is some kind of Insolvency Specialist!!!!:D:D
 
gsv's keen to go abroad at some point, and I'm up for it, but not until I'm done with babies!

We've agreed it's got to be English speaking, as otherwise my career options are limited. Canada and Ireland seem to be top of the bill. Suggested to gsv lately that we should maybe do our research (on moving, taxes, childcare, schools etc) sooner rather than later, and then we could be more informed on when might be a good time to go for it.

I confess that I'm not sure if gsv means for good or for a bit, but I suspect for good.

As far as I'm concerned, it kind of depends on my mum's health. She almost certainly won't live to a ripe old age, due to various health concerns, and I worry about missing precious time with her for me and my child/ren.
 
We've talked about it, but just can't think where we'd go. I grew up by the sea, and quite fancy moving back to the coast somewhere. I thought Brighton was the obvious choice, but we went down there a few times, and I just found it incredibly stressful, far more than genteel old Brixton Hill! There were just so many cars, and the traffic was awful. And everyone just seemed a little too cool for school. I didn't feel like I'd fit in. Which was a shame because it seemed like the answer - smaller, calmer (in theory, but it turned out it wasn't), by the sea, but with a very busy cultural life. I'd miss that last thing most of all if we left London.

But it's weird - I don't really feel like I live in London now. I live in Brixton and visit London every so often. Which is maybe why I feel like I could make the transition to living outside of London quite easily.
 
Maggot said:
You can watch people and walk around anywhere. :p
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True, but I like the eccentricity of London, and when I am feeling really inspired it's magic:) Also London in the summer is amazing, best place in the world - the infectious energy and verve and life. I have never experienced anything like it. There is action and so much hope and zest. I could really go on and on :D
 
Homeless Mal said:
True, but I like the eccentricity of London, and when I am feeling really inspired it's magic:) Also London in the summer is amazing, best place in the world - the infectious energy and verve and life. I have never experienced anything like it. There is action and so much hope and zest. I could really go on and on :D
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Yeah, you're not wrong there. London in the summer is a very special place. If I ever leave (and I mean leave totally, not still work there) then I will always miss it. There is a sense that anything can happen, I fucking love it :cool:
 
I lived up in s.w. london until i was 21, then moved to a small town in cambridgeshire. total culture shock at first :eek:

but now i'm back in london (since April). tis a good thing :cool:
 
My job contract expires in a few months and I'll probably be leaving then, unless a very good job comes along. Can't see myself missing London much tbh, even though my attitude to the place has softened a bit of late. :)
 
In the UK, I'd consider Brighton, Edinburgh or Leamington Spa (where I lived at uni), and probably Birmingham, which I actually like a lot.
 
dynamicbaddog said:
I'd always wanted to live in Brighton, I put my council flat on the exchange book for there, but no-one replied.
I did leave London for a few months and lived in Margate, but it was in winter and after the novelty of being by the sea wore off I was bored most of the time. Trouble with a lot of seaside places is that they shut down after the summer.
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Margate is grim in the winter :D:(

ohmyliver said:
much as I like brighton, it really isn't London on sea. Ethnically cleansed Islington or Stoke Newington on sea, perhaps... but London on Sea no

*eta* being a bit harsh on Brighton. It's a top place for its size, but..
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yeh course it's a bit sterile and 'white' though that's changing, it's got enough arts stuff and the sea to keep me busy for a long time. And you get free Fatboy Slim tickets!!

ianw said:
We've talked about it, but just can't think where we'd go. I grew up by the sea, and quite fancy moving back to the coast somewhere. I thought Brighton was the obvious choice, but we went down there a few times, and I just found it incredibly stressful, far more than genteel old Brixton Hill! There were just so many cars, and the traffic was awful. And everyone just seemed a little too cool for school. I didn't feel like I'd fit in. Which was a shame because it seemed like the answer - smaller, calmer (in theory, but it turned out it wasn't), by the sea, but with a very busy cultural life. I'd miss that last thing most of all if we left London.
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yeh the traffic can be really bad at peak times, but I don't really drive in central Brighton much and you don't need to. :)

Re; the cool bit - Oh really? I don't find I feel like that, though I'm not bothered about being cool at all! :D

All pie in the sky anyway :(
 
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