Which city in England is the best to live in?

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Cat Chase

I have lived all over the UK (single, female) and liked places you can just walk around on a Saturday and not feel like a stranger.

University cities have a nice feel to them and usually great restaurants, entertainment etc. I prefer mideum sized towns with some parks or countryside nearby. the following places were my favourite places where I easily and quickly made freinds and felt at home:

Oxford. Beautiful. You can just walk around it and feel happy. Also train and road good links to other cities. Lots of good priced rental accomodation. ( I don't like Cambirdge as much, smaller and more remote, isolated)

Brighton very similar but you have the sea. More buzzing nightlife. Nice young feel to it. Very expensive now to buy there.

Bath is a bit like Oxford but more rural. Lovely weekend places to visit on the doorstpe like Devon, Wales. Great bars and restaurants.

I don't like London or the big cities but Edinburgh is very different. Stunning location and real outdoor feel. Cosmopolitan and buzzing as is Bristol.

Good Luck!

suziejoy

stoke on trent

Monica H

I have never been but over the years a lot of people say York is a lovely place to live. Good shopping clean and well kept and friendly people

karla o

No where!!!! I would move away if i was you for a happy life!

HLW

Chester is the best City!

Bruce W.

Liverpool

chip2001

Look at this link.
It's from Channel4's "Location Location Location - the 10 best and worst places to live"
http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/best&worst/index.html

Georgie M

Liverpool.... Big city, great city centre, full of shops, bars, restaurants and pubs that suit everyone.... museums, art galleries, and four universities making it very diverse!!Still close to nature... The suberbs offer lovely beaches and marinas (one of which holds the anthony gormley exhibition), and woods (formby nature reserve). It holds the grand national! Also well know for live music, and great theatres, and golf courses! 30mins from southport, and 45 mins from Manchester it gives you options of other places!
Lovely people (look past the stereo type, you'd be surprised if you visit!)

Its won Capital of Culture 2008!!!

bea

SHEFFIELD!!
Its got everything anyone could ever need...the spanky new city centre is perfect for business/capachino/wine bar type people, then just outside the city centre there are all the arty student sort of bars and shops and big green parks etc., but a sure sign that it's a good place to settle and live your life is the fact that the locals still love it too.

As far as nature is concerned, I think Sheffield is listed as the greenest city in England and if that's not enough the peak district is right on it's doorstep.

Like any big city it's got it drawbacks, but I lived there as a student in the city centre and as a mum with my children and it always felt like a safe and welcoming place to be.

I moved away from Sheffield a year ago, to follow my husband round the country while he's in the military and I miss it like mad!!

в™Ґ Bekka в™Ґ

hmmmmmm, Carlisle? ooooh no apparently Bournemouth, it's supposed to be the happiest place to live/work.

Definitely NOT Milton Keynes (where i currently live)

Joanne W

Salford, it's up & coming. The new developments are out of this world, seriously. Even the BBC is moving there. xxx

arancione_naranja

To agree with Bea, definitely SHEFFIELD.
it has everything you need, it's in the middle of the country so there are good transport links, and the people are really friendly too.

depending on where you're from the accent/dialect may be a bit hard to understand at first, but pretty soon you'll love it.

ta-ra love

jordy

Newcastle of course, the friendliest place in england, good people,good nightlife, good football team,what more could you ask for.

Lloyd HOUZ

London is the city

deadpeotic_x

Bristol.
Its Beautiful ...

... and the Accent is proper nice.

(Y)

arethusa_lad

Keep out of the cities and go for it in the country. We don't take readily to strangers but after some twenty or so years you may be accepted and invited to join in the local festivities such as collecting horse droppings for the elderly to put on their roses or helping to round up a prize bull or polishing the doorknob on the chruch door, all great ice breakers. Haven't you seen the "Vicar of Dibley"?

Graham H

Leeds of course, I thought everyone knew that.

elflaeda

Well, obviously, we are all going to say our own city, in my case, Sunderland.

We might be in the North East but you have history close by in the shape of Lindisfarne Priory, Hadrian's wall, the original Washington, complete with old Hall and numerous castles, cathedrals, forts etc.

For shopping, we have the Bridges (Sunderland), Metrocentre (Gateshead), Eldon Square (Newcastle), The Gates (Durham), Captain Cook Square (Middlesborough) that's as well as Dalton Park (a new shopping centre near Sunderland), The Galleries (Washington) and a few more.

For leisure, Sunderland alone has three gorgeous beaches, and not a single shingle in sight, there's The Stadium of Light (and ... St. James' Park; boo hiss ... I've got to do that, it's expected of me as a Mackem), We have an Olympic sized swimming pool being built beside the Stadium of Light (can I be the only one who thinks that's a namby pamby name? Roker Park was so much better). There are cinemas and theatres galore and fairs both indoor (Metroland) and outdoor.

We have our own language which sets us apart from the rest of the country and a very strong local spirit.

Voice of Reason

I agree with deadpeotic_x above - Bristol. I don't live there but of all the cities I've been to recently it has been the most pleasant. Undoubtedly it has its problem areas like any city, but the centre is nice and there's plenty to do.

not sure if I would agree about the accent though.

Foxxy

Try Guildford in Surrey, quite posh. Lovely countryside...

exploding_pants

Great yarmouth would be a good place to start, I haven't been there but it sounds good, However Greater Manchester obviously thinks it's better than Yarmouth, so you could give that a go. Let us know how you got on in 10 years or so.

~wanie~baby~

London

swti97

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