What Is Best Location / City To Live In Uk

[pumpjack]

for decent prices housing to buy / rent.
for transportion, roads , trains.
near to airports etc.

please dont tell me stockton on tees , i passed by there few years ago and would rather live in outer mongolia lol

[fiction-factory]

Is getting work a factor?
I think most cities are what you make of them- whether you make friends and make use of what's on offer.
I like Edinburgh but that wouldn't meet the decent housing cost criterion

[Hopkirk]

The trouble is the nicer and more desirable, the higher the house prices and rents.

Bristol is great but not cheap.

[douglas9401]

Inverness, hands down.

[woofgang]

It depends what you want.....arts, night life, access to the countryside.....

[Tyrion44]

Cardiff or most areas of Wales. Beautiful.

[kvalidir]

Hereford is beautiful and reasonably cheap for what you get.

[Old_Geezer]

Depends so much. What do you call decent prices ?

Most commercial airports have motorways nearby, don't they ? And complaints of aircraft going over must bring down prices surely ? Might even get a tube or rail station nearby.

[murraymints]

I echo Jordyboy..Edinburgh is still a beautiful city..but house prices and recent practices by the city council have angered many residents..infrastructure..new horrific buildings to name a couple of things..the character of the city is being destroyed..by a few ..and the many are not at all happy !

[ladybirder]

Harrogate is certainly one to consider. I believe it was on the list of "Best Places to Live" recently. Near the lovely North Yorkshire Dales as well.

[pumpjack]

i was thinking cambridge, bedford, colchester around that area, quick / easy commute to london plus airports, i like the south compared to the north.
edinburgh is nice but really put off by the scottish weather . have never really fancied living back in scotland though used to live in kilmarnock years ago horrid place !

i would mainly go for work and affordable rent of a small flat or room .

[Tilly2]

Bedford is cheaper than Cambridge.

[sunny-dave]

Harrogate is quite expensive - but a great place - until you try to drive anywhere - it seems permanently traffic clogged (both in town and on the main entrance/exit roads. I dread my visits there.

Peterborough is an interesting place with good cultural life - and has a decent infrastructure and very good transport links by road/rail - Stansted Airport isn't that far away either.

If you want somewhere on the main London/Midland axis then Milton Keynes is (much) better than you'd expect - great theatre, good restaurants and cheapish housing. Luton Airport just up the road too.

For rural I'd look at the leafy bits of Warwickshire - expensive in the south of the county, cheaper in the north - good links to the motorway network and mainline trains from Coventry/Nuneaton/Warwick. B'ham airport neearby.

[murraymints]

Inverness is a place I would live too Douglas...

[Hopkirk]

Leamington Spa is nice.

[maggiebee]

Very difficult question to answer as there are so many variables. What are you looking for - work, schools, night life, transport?? I'm biased of course, but I would say Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness in Scotland. Edinburgh prices are, as some have already said, horrendous. Friend recently bought one there and I could have bought 2 in Dundee for the price!

[KARL]

If you prefer the weather somewhere in England over that of anywhere in Scotland then your margins between acceptable and unacceptable are very narrow. Almost anywhere outside the UK would then qualify on the weather front and most of those places also outdo the UK on the question of comfort, price, efficient facilities, etc. but of course you are restricting yourself to the UK. Enjoy.

[Buenchico]

Cambridge is one of the most expensive cities for housing. As has been said above, Bedford is less so (but, because it's easily accessible from London, not particularly cheap). Bedford is quite pleasant, even if there is rather too much 1960s concrete in much of the town centre.

I've never really warmed to Colchester; it seems a bit soulless to me. (Chelmsford might be a better prospect for you, although you'd need to check on house prices there).

Bishops Stortford is rather pleasant, and has Stansted Airport on its doorstep, with fast access to London, but those factors add to housing prices.

Ipswich (just down the road from me) is a very 'up and coming', with a rapidly developing waterfront area (with loads of nice restaurants and bars) and generally quite pleasant, with loads of parks and green spaces. It's an hour's drive from Stansted (with a bus service there every two hours as well), about 70 minutes by train from London (although there are plans to cut that to 60 minutes). Employment opportunities are reasonably good, with BT's national research centre on the edge of town and many insurance companies having their HQs there. House prices aren't too bad either.