Where would you live ?

Going off topic, please forgive me, but, Cazthebookworm, I`ve just read your profile, and you`re the only other person I`ve ever come across all these years, who saw The Eddy Duchin Story! Lovely film.
Now, ladies, as you were!

The film annual that I've recently bought from the internet 'Picture Show Annual 1954' has a whole page devoted to Tyrone Power. He was so good looking.

I would still move to New Zealand at the drop of a hat - even though most of my family are in the UK. I felt a real affinity to the country on my first visit three years ago and the feeling is just as strong.

I would like to live next door to Tegan so that I could pass on my copy of (film) Review 1950.

You know Juliette, when it arrived it was as if I'd put it down five minutes before [and I hadn't seen it for nearly 50 years]! It was the wierdest feeling. I'd love to see your Film Review 1950 . If you go to any gransnet meet ups let me know!

Number I saw the E D Story and remember how much I loved it. I have always been a film buff and my 4 year old GS is following in my footsteps.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=14R4zkV0zWg

I would love to move to The Cotswolds, peaceful, close to nature, hardly any crime, Glorious, alas just a dream, but If I won the lottery I probably would buy a house there, only problem is, that I do no play the lottery.

The link didn`t work Tegan, said it`s not available in this country, shame.

Scotland. Close to the reindeer.

It is easy to be beguiled by somewhere you only visit on holiday or when you are happy.

Years ago we had friends living in an idyllic village on the edge of the Lake District. They were our closest friends and our children loved each others company. We visited often and their happiness and ours and the beautiful countryside made us long to move there, which could have been possible.

Then one evening I asked DH where he would follow his favourite hobby and realised it would probably require a 50 mile journey, similarly for me - and the scales fell from our eyes. We looked at the move coldly and objectively and realised that beautiful though the area was happy though we were there with our friends, for us, living there, far from family and other friends, with our interests and hobbies not catered for, after six months we would probably be on the brink of divorce or alcoholism.

The other man's grass and all that

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSjCeqhC-jU
darn it; the soundtrack works though...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkbUBh4JTiQ
Tyrone Power documentary

To digress for a moment, Number and NanKate" I have never met anyone who has seen the ED Story so was thrilled to hear there are 2 others besides me! I saw it as an impressionable 14 year old and have never forgotten how moving it was. Thank you *Tegan for the last link, lovely, he was SO handsome and died much too young.

Back to the thread.

I wish I knew! We are lucky (?) enough to be in a position to choose but what a dilemma! Others may already have read my other post re our dilemma. Basically we followed daughter and family to Perth Australia but we simply can't settle here. My ideal place would be the UK with sunshine and family around, surrounded by countryside and within driving distance of good walking country. A nice village, not too far from a market town, with a few amenities, shop and pub and a community feel with lots going on for our age group, a choir and bridge for DH and of course, a walking group. England's home, but we would have no family. We are researching Shropshire, Lincolnshire, and Notts, all places where property is more affordable, we also really like North Yorkshire but property is more expensive there. We wouldn't consider anywhere down south as we are both from Midlands/North and feel more comfortable there. If anyone knows of anywhere suitable we are open to suggestions!

We have distant family in Notts and a son in Europe - but not sure how long he will stay there or where he may end up. I have a brother in Queensland and OH favours moving there as it would suit us better than Perth, but again still a long way from grandchildren. We would have plenty of sunshine and a good community lifestyle, but it's not home and Oz is expensive. I don't suppose it is possible to find the perfect place with everything.

When was the last time that you were in England?

Herefordshire is lovely, too, hondagirl.

soontobe we have been here in Oz for four years. We are planning a visit in a few months so hoping to visit some of the places we are thinking about. Can't afford to go back to where we lived before as property is too expensive plus we don't need to be near good schools or access to jobs.

I have a close friend who lives on the outskirts of Lincoln It seems very affordable and has most, if not all the things you are looking for hondagirl Good luck.

I can vouch for Lincoln, Top Town is really lovely. Horncastle is lovely as well, I used to live just outside it. Woodhall Spa is very nice. Louth too, the outlaws used to live there. Boston is a bit odd. I sometimes miss it, but it was very hard to get anywhere, the population is sparse so living where we did, we were 20 miles from pretty much everything with a bit of life about it. I wish we had lived closer to Lincoln.

JaneR, why is Boston a bit odd? I live there. After a bit of thought, maybe you mean because there are more E.Europeans per capita in Boston than anywhere else in the UK? Other than that, Boston is quite nice. Louth I find rather dismal.

Yes, I didn't feel as if I was in the UK. Which is saying something, as it is pretty much like that here in East Anglia, but Boston was my first experience of feeling like a foreigner in my own country, as we were there sightseeing and I couldn't hear any English being spoken! Loved going up the Stump though. Is Louth dismal? I suppose it is in the winter, rather. I only know the area around the big church, FiL was organist there until recently.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try and check them out when we go over a holiday in July.

JaneR, I know what you mean, it`s very unusual these days to hear English being spoken in town. I agree about the Stump, but I haven`t been up there since the late 80s, I`d never make it now! It`s a bit hairy coming back down as well, without a proper handrail, unless it`s changed from just a rope to hold on to? Views are great though, must be even better from right at the very top, but it`s not been possible to go that far for many years now.