What are the best places to live in the UK?

So, I'm flying over to London in April with all the money I have and a British passport and I'm looking for a city to settle down in, find some work and have some fun. London is far too expensive for me and most of my relatives are from Middlesborough, so I was thinking Leeds or York are nice cities and close by, I also really like the look of Glasgow.

I like closeness to nature, friendly people, alternative culture and I always look for cheapass factor.

What do you think?

 

I would recommend Edinburgh for closeness to nature, alternative culture, friendly people (maybe), not sure about cheapness and it's a long / expensive way from London. It's a great city though

 

Glasgow is Plymouth but not by the sea. Big ugly greyness...from what I can remember, but that was years ago!

 

Brighton comes with high praise from a lot of people. I quite like Bristol and the West Country. Cambridge is a lovely little city, not too expensive, not too big, but lots of history and culture....

 

YES THE WESTCOUNTRY!

But it is a bit quiet down here

 

York is a Nice Place...

Spent 4 Days There Last...October I Think...

It was Lovely...

 

i'm going to say Sheffield, even tho i am very biast towards sheffield because its where i come from but i'll give you a bit of info anyway.

its the 4th largest city in england.
if your in to sports its the sport capital of the UK.
The Sheffield Ski Village is Europe's largest outdoor artificial ski resort.
Sheffield offers inward investors the highest level of funding assistance anywhere in Europe.
sheff is one of the safest citys in the UK
One third of Sheffield lies within the Peak District National Park (no other UK city has a national park within its boundary).
Sheffield is England's greenest city, containing 150 woodlands and 50 public parks.
Half of the city's population lives within 15 minutes of open countryside.
The winter gardens are one of the UK’s top new buildings.
we have two large popular universitys if you want to do some studying & the university of sheffield was voted Sunday Times University of the Year.
The city has been voted Most Popular UK Student Destination.
Sheffield College is Europe’s largest FE college.
92% of Sheffield graduates find employment.
We have good tranceport links with robinhood airport being 1/2 an hour away in doncaster.
Sheffield has a rail network that reaches almost anywhere in the country & you can get to london by train in 2 & half hours.
if you want to buy a house, sheffield is the place to do it. you have fantastic souroundings & houses you can afford. house prices here are amonst the lowest in the country which is good if you are looking to rent. yet sheffield hallam in one of the UKs top 10 richest towns.
if you want to shop to you drop sheffield has the largest shopping & leasure complex in europe.
there is lots to see & do in sheffield, lots of history & culture.
if clubbing is your thing then we have plenty of pubs, bars, resturantes & night clubs & ofcourse sheffield is the home of gatecrasher.

soo come to sheffield, you wont be disapointed, my friend who i met through these forums came to england for two years & was planning to live in london but after chatting to me decided to come to sheffield. she had a fantastic time & didnt go home disapointed.

 

Plus Sheffield is home to DUBSTEP!

 

Cardiff is a nice place.

 

It's got to be Brighton really hasn't it though?

For closeness to nature, friendly people and alternative culture it's quite hard to beat. A place where it's easy to start a conversation on the street with a stranger and a few weeks later that person's a good mate of yours.

Full of crazy freaks from every walk of life and all sorts of cultures and whatnot. Great 'scene' down here, regardless of what you're into, big underground music ting going on. Lots of quirky independent shops/traders, activists and political types, hippys, punks, posers, homeless, hip scenester wanker types from London, massive gay & lesbian community (gay capital of Britain and all that), squatters, organic eco folk, crusty tekno cider people, hip hop heads, perverts, junkies, freaks, great pubs & clubs, infamous local nutters and some top regency architecture.

In the summer the whole place comes alive and street life takes over. There's always something to watch in the streets: bands, performance artists, crazy people, classic tramps etc. You can just spend weeks doing nothing but feeling content being outdoors, on the beach, in the lanes being part of this strange old place etc etc.

Council are shit though. And it's not the cheapest place in Britain but one can find decent housing that isn't too extortionate if you sniff around enough...

Biggest cultural hotbed outside of London but without London mentality... The place to be(g)...

Oh yeah, don't go up north. The sun hasn't shone since the beginning of the industrial revolution (fact) and they tork funny, like, and eat gravy with everything (when they're not down the mines that is)

 

ha bloody ha. i may tork funi like but i dont eat gravy with everything, i eat hendo's with everything, the best condiment you can buy, but you wouldnt know what that is would ya been down south. i dont work in a mine either & we do get the sun, infact i allready have tan lines

 

London suburb of Lewisham. Great place to stay. With Greenwich just down the road connected by the DLR (An elevated railway with no driver. Hense the abbrvs, DLR, Driverless ride.

There are many fantastic things to do in the 02 from July, concerts featuring well known bands and American Basketball coming soon.
I would go to a place up the road from Lewisham: Blackheath, lovely cute little craft shops, cake shops and nice restaurants spanish, Italian and French. A grand hotel sits on top of Tranquil Vale. I think that if you are prepared to go to London, best be Lewisham. Better than most boroughs as it is lively and has a vibe to it that is similar to Reading in Berkshire.

www.lewisham.gov.uk

 

Swindon in southwest, its the don

 

Thats a joke right ^^^^

Thanks for the advice everyone, brighton has always sounded cool, but there is just something about Northerners that I love, its in my blood I guess.

 

It's nice up here in the Lakes but you might go mad with nothing to do. Liverpool is a cool city, the people are really friendly, lively night life, lots of history, multicultural, big uni... not half as bad as its reputation either. I'm quite tempted by somewhere outside of England right now tho myself. Maybe Scotland.

 

fuck off yer twat

 

Everyone says Brighton is a good place to live. mmm? Lets see, Taj Mahal in Brighton, completely doesn't go with the rest of the buildings. Years ago there was a thing about City status. Brighton won and became a City. Apart from being a hotspot for many flamboyant people, it has perhaps one of the second worst traffic congestions. Take the main road into Brighton. It is heaving with traffic. If it wasn't for the ocean, the beach and Brighton Marina, I think I would have probably run up the Seven Sisters to Beachy head and terminated myself.

The promenade is a lovely flat gentle walkway along the beach. In the summer, this place is the best place to be. As for the character of Brighton, The Lanes are a must see and a short walk down Brighton pier and you will be in arcade heaven. Little machines with that famous tune every few seconds, the blipping of space invaders and pacman echoing in the amusements infiltrating out the doors and onto the street. In the evening massive neon lights flood down inticing people to get into their leather's and get on their motorcycles while listening to Together in Electric dreams.

Then you get the Brighton conferance centre. Political nirvana-next-the-sea. Brighton, still worth the visit if you have the money and the tolerance.

 

Lancaster! if you're into the mouth of sodding madness.

 

wales or somerset I like yorkshire too and cornwall

 

I'll second Lancaster.