Desirable Locations to Live in England?

[mountainboo]

Outside of the South East as too over crowded. TIA

[Buenchico]

Chuck has mentioned where he lives plenty of times, so I assume that he won't mind me answering your question, Mountainboo. It's here:
http://homepage.ntlwo.../pr06b_museumtown.htm

If you're looking for nice villages, which aren't wildly expensive, then there are plenty here in Suffolk (as long as you stay away from the coast). For example, Woolpit has loads of traditional 'charm'. It's big enough to support a couple of pubs and a few shops. (For other shopping, Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich can serve all of your needs). It's also got loads going on, including an annual music & arts festival. (About a week and a half of jazz, opera, folk, theatre, etc):
http://www.woolpit.org/index.html

[Maydup]

Yorkshire is beautiful, Norfolk is too, Somerset, Devon, I could go on.

The counties closer to London and other big cities are all busier the closer you get to the commuter belt. But that's all fairly obvious isn't it. If I could live anywhere I'd live in one of the counties I mentioned and be 20 miles from a City and 20 miles form the coast. I'd work in the city and play at the coast and inthe countryside. In fact that is exactly what I do - how lucky am I?

[Eve]

Despite being in the "non-descript wasteland", Shopshire is lovely and far from overcrowded.

[Ric.ror]

Jack - remember what mike Harding says
Yorkshire is full of hills and moors
Lancashire is full of mills and wh@res ;-)

[jackthehat]

ooooo......howdareyoueverso........

[Ric.ror]

All these posts go to prove is that the British isles are the best place to live
Apart from the weather

[ladybirder]

Maidup, to clarify NORTH Yorkshire is lovely, but I wouldn't call the big conurbations of Halifax, Huddersfield, Keighley etc beautiful:-)

[Maydup]

Clarified and agree Ladybirder. North and East is beautiful.

[Ric.ror]

Riddlesden in Keighley is lovely as are parts of Halifax and huddersfield has a nice town centre with outskirts to rival anywhere

[AlBags]

Half a mile off the Kent coast.
Pretty quiet there.

[karenmac60]

A tad wet though Al ;)

[Ric.ror]

Lmho ^

[craft1948]

pmsl @ karen.................

[Count-A-Strong]

West Yorkshire is an overcrowded metropolis in the main and the reason I now live in North Yorkshire.

[brenda]

Do go up north --- moved to the North East in 1983 --- best move I ever made . classy property cheap, spectacular countryside, close to sea -- brilliant and excellent people.

[askyourgran]

North is OK, I live near Calverley ric.ror, and I have been wanting to move away, further south would be my ideal. Although there are some nice places in Yorkshire, some quite expensive though.

[AlBags]

Up North?!

Colder than the south, accents you can't understand, white pudding, haggis, breeks instead of knickers, Barnsley, Middlesborough, men in skirts ;) ...

Need I continue ... ?

[AlBags]

Karen would be warmer in my gaff. ; )

[bimbo123456]

All strange in Suffolk?? Wow that is quite an achievement knowing every single person in Suffolk, Redhelen, How do you find the time to come on here??? Just for the record....Suffolk is very pretty especially close to Dedham.

[AlBags]

Red's well informed.
Everyone coming into (or out of) Suffolk has to check with her.