Where is home for you?

[BanannaMan]

I live in the countryside.
But getting to be too many houses on the road by my house. May move further out next year???

[Bri w]

I'm a townie but about 1/2 mile from open countryside, and only a few miles from the North Yorks Moors - not quite Appalachia but nice.

[timwilky]

The village I live is is being overrun with new development. We had a deputy prime minister a few years ago who as well as throwing punches made a very stupid decision.

He designated gardens on existing developments as brown field. This means the land is not designated as "Green Field" and subject to strict planning law.

As a result there have been loads of "Garden Grabs" where a house with a large garden will sell over the market price in order to demolish it and build little boxes.

Additionally the local munitions manufacturing site has been developed. This was a huge plot of land. and they build 4,000 houses in the middle of a recession and suppressing local house prices by plonking thousands of brand new empty houses 1/2 a mile away.

What they do not build are schools, doctors/dentists/recreational facilities etc. So local facilities are being oversubscribed. Even the local fire station is having to relocate as it is no longer viewed as being central to the area.

When I bought my house 26 years ago, I looked out onto green fields, now I see rows of houses

Small townie 330yds from the pub which is on the outskirts followed by 7miles of open fields.
I think when you buy a house or choose a place to live there are many things to be taken into consideration. Proximity of doctors,schools,shops[local] and supermarkets,
transport links,parking etc.
Age and health is also a concern,distance is no problem as long as you have some means of transport but I have had to consider the consequences of my license being revoked due to medical reasons.
My preference would be to live in the open countryside,but in my case just not practical,so next best has to do

I live on the outskirts of a town, it takes us around 20 minutes to walk into the town centre, having said that we are only about 1.5 miles from the start of the countryside + we have a large country park opposite our house to walk the dogs, go jogging, go fishing or just go for a stroll, as DT said it is a good idea to take into account the proximity of certain facilities which for us is very good, 10 minute walk to doctors, 5 minute walk to dentists, a choice of supermarkets all within 10 minutes by car, my main reasons for buying where we did was that it was close to where my partner works (she walks it in 20 minutes) & has good access (5 minutes) to the A12 so i can get to work easily or if i feel like riding the twisties to work for a change that is also possible.
I was born & raised in the countryside, whilst it is nice & peacefull, it has it's downsides too.

Lived in the same village for 41 years. Its now a heck of a lot larger than it was. I can remember doing a project on the village when i was at infants school and can recall there being approx 1400 people living there. at the last census it was 9000.

like a lot of places in this country its gone from being a quiet peaceful little hamlet to having large developments springing up all over the shop, and of course the infrastructure is still largely geared to support 1400!

one big plus is the local school is a beacon school (or whatever the phrase is they use to describe a school which shows other schools how they operate successfully), and there's a damn fine Indian restaurant there!

I live on the edge of a small town with an artificial river in front
of my house (with swans and other waterfowl) followed by miles of
open countryside. The "river" was created out of a brook during the
filming of "Saving private Ryan", so we call it Spielberg River.

I guess at some point new houses will appear on the fields in front
of my house but I don't think the river will be the bulldozed: the
river and surrounding park act as a flood defence, collecting excess
water. The matter of building new houses is now with the courts,
local authorities fighting the East of England Development Agency.

[Jayneflakes]

I live in a small town, half a mile from the Sea Front, well I say sea front. For most of the day it is a large mud flat that tourists walk out onto and get stuck in. Also being the Bristol Channel, the water is full of poo and we are just down the road from Hinkley Point, so we have radiation as well. Just up the coast from us is Avonmouth, which is one of the most polluted areas around here and some of the trees are treated as toxic waste when they eventually die and fall over.

I really like it here and have never been happier!

Mind you I used to live on the edge of Dartmoor, a place where men are men and the sheep are afraid!

[dizzyblonde]

Chav central, and I can't wait to go get somewhere I'm a little more used to.
A mix of council and private houses. Been here ten years and never thought of it as home. Even though countryside is a walk away.
Parents brought me up in a much better place, so I guess I was spoilt by the peace, quiet and type of people around us.
When we get the chance, we hope to move to somewhere slightly more rural, not too much, but enough to feel space. I can't stand seeing bricks everywhere, and having people gawping through your blinds, or seeing everbodies business living so close together.

country side,


little village with 280 houses I think, maybe less.

Very blessed to be living here.