City Girl or Country Mouse.

juggernaut, your life sounds Idyllic !

I always wanted to buy a little holiday flat in Filey. N. Yorks, and have holidayed there with my children when they were small for many years. We had good old fashioned family fun and although they are grown now and go abroad, they still have those lovely memories of what we did.
I take my grandson there now for the odd day out, and he scampers among the rocks with a net and a bucket catching crabs with me just like his daddy did when he was little.

Then when we have finished and let them go... we go and eat fish and chips and get dive bombed by the gulls. It's what they call FUN!

You can't get that in Ibiza !

Thanks to everyone for your replies. I've really enjoyed reading them. We are quite a mixed bunch arent we, but then thats why I enjoy Gransnet. We have different life styles, live in cities or rural areas, and have different opinions on life. Its great. I'm off on holiday on Friday to CRAIL on the FiFe Coast, looking forward to visiting all the fishing villages and St Andrews.

Nonnie1
My life's not idyllic, by any means, but the place where we live is pretty damn good!
We're very lucky as we got onto the housing ladder before prices went to ludicrous levels, and I inherited my mum's house and am selling it to my DS and DDiL, so they live in the next road to us.
We actually live on the promenade, and DS and DDiL live in the road behind us, but we can't see one another's houses, although if we climbed onto our roofs we could!

I used to think I'd like to live in the country (we are in a green bit of outer SW London) but not now. We have friends in avery rural area and I love it for a few days, but you need the car for absolutely everything - nothing is a reasonable walk away. Sounds daft but when these friends had dogs it was a lot easier for them to walk them here, because we have a big park close by. There, you had to get in the car and drive 10 mins minimum before there was anywhere you could let them off the lead for a good run.
My sister has I think the best of both worlds - lives tucked away in a quiet corner of a lovely little Dales town - a 2 minute walk from enough shops for most things, but a 5 min walk in the other direction and you are on the fells. I would find it hard to move from here now, though - mind you we are very spoilt with the Freedom Pass and fantastic public transport. I use the car so much less since I had that and I know many others similar. Whatever else - I know a lot of people think it unfair that people who could afford to pay get such a perk - but it does keep an awful lot of cars off the roads!

I grew up in the gritty bomb site world of the East End, and now live in a Suffolk town. I am a Londoner - Thames water courses through my veins I think - but I love this town with every convenience of trains, buses, good shops, water meadows, glorious scenery, Victorian houses and a lovely pace of life. I do really need those trains, buses and shops - 'could not live in the places some friends do where there is absolutely nothing but a few rows of houses, not even a village shop and you have to drive for twenty minutes to get a newspaper. I would be in a straight jacket within six months.

Country mouse but I live in a small market town. I'd love to be out in the sticks but don't drive and it's hard enough to get anywhere from here, much less from a village with a weekly bus.
My town is choked with traffic but there's no alternative to the car if you work or have children, public transport is abysmal.