Are you living where you always wanted to live?
Watch this postI am just being rather nosy but am intrigued to know whether you have ended up where you always wanted to live or if you have a burning desire to have a foray/end your days somewhere else? I am a country girl born and bred but following my marriage break up I lived in Bournemouth for a year where I just didn't earn enough money to live so headed for London - twenty six years now and I have never had a single second of regret at doing so. I love the general buzz, the diversity, the history - in fact everything! So, are you where you are because of circumstance? Happy there? Wish beyond anything that you were elsewhere? I'd love to know.
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If/when the kids decide what they want to do, I look forward to moving to a small flat. I like London, but my husband doesn't, and I'm less fussed, so I expect we'll go somewhere much cheaper and split the profit betweenn the kids & our future care-home needs. I',m a church-goer & a mrembre of various organisations, so I'm sure I'd make friends anywhere, and the other half likes to minimise socialising anyway!
(Oh - and before anyone points out hte problem of *stuff* when downsizing, the house is full of empty furniture that I don't want to get rid of yet, because of now knowing what the kids want to do, and if they'll want any of it - they're not having my great-grandmother's writing desk, mind!!)
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I'm lucky that I have restaurants, bars, old fashioned country pubs and cafes to choose from to meet up with friends all within walking distance
Good God I need a sat nav to go around the corner !
Funnily enough I didn't do much travelling whilst I was married but that had more to do with being married to a farmer who refused to leave the farm for too long and hated foreign travel. It was totally different when I moved to London - I guess you could say my 'career' took of then and I had the freedom to do the jobs I wanted which meant working overseas at times. I've worked in the Cayman Islands, helped open an office in Poland, went on secondment to the UAE, worked in New York and the Cayman Islands - not to mention leisure travel so, yes, my world opened up and I feel really fortunate.
I am grateful for my country roots but am certainly much happier being a city dweller!