Are you still happy with where you live?

[TripleBee]

Given the current circumstances, are you still happy with where you live?
As we all are more or less imprisoned, I kind of appreciate my town more and more.
Apart from the high house prices, difficult access in and out my town, especially in high season, I always like the fact that when I am leaving my town in high season on a sundaymorning to go inland for a nice bike ride, there is a massive traffic jam towards my town. I then have the road clear to go inland.
When I return in the late afternoon, the traffic jam is the other way round.

But now, as we can't go outside our town, I start to appreciate my town.
I have, all within walking and biking distance: a nice beach, dunes, a forest of 41 hectares, 1400 hectares of polders.
We also have some nice medieval farms, a few parks, paths, ...

I have been outside walking everyday now for 12 consecutive days (thanks to the weather), and now I am very happy where I live, and not in a big town, where you'd have to take your car to get to the otherside of it to have some fresh air and the possibility to have a walk or ride.

To cheer you guys up (or to make some of you jealous?) I have some photo's:

First day at home, time for a walk, no fog at all. Then you arrive at the beach:

Another day, the other direction:

Enough social distance?


A farm, originally from about the year 1200:


Today:

 

[GrannyJen]

Like you I live on the coast.

250 yards and I am on a beach, wide sand and shingle at low tide, or an adjacent greensward to walk along at high tide. We are a coastal village with few busy roads so I can run almost with complete freedom using all the width of the roads to keep me apart from others.

I truly appreciate where I live, love it to bits and even more so now.

 

[calikev]

i live on the edge of the peak district i would be shot if i went out today but love the walks etc

 

[Jodalo]

i live on the edge of the peak district i would be shot if i went out today but love the walks etc

I’ve lived on the edge for years! But of the South Downs.

 

[westfalia]

I love where i live.




A walk to the park.

Then in the park, the people are so happy
.
Then across to the town

and in the town the people are friendly

Then on the way home
.

Its been a bit quiet lately.

 

[Jay20cali]

U never fail to make me laugh mr Westfalia!

 

[TripleBee]

I love where i live.




A walk to the park.
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Then in the park, the people are so happy
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Then across to the town
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and in the town the people are friendly
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Then on the way home
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Its been a bit quiet lately.

I hope you have the permission of all the people on these pictures you've taken and post them on a public forum?

 

[kurienp]

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

The current situation has done nothing to change my view of my little town - Newbury. Less than a mile in any direction and I am able to enjoy Nature. With the canal flowing through, that provides the water body and you name it - everything from paragliding to water to road sports, Newbury has it around here. I love my little town.

The current situation has just made me appreciate life in general and the people who make things work a lot more for sure.

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[kurienp]

I hope you have the permission of all the people on these pictures you've taken and post them on a public forum?

Na, looking at that last pic, don't think he can ask for permission anymore

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[David Eccles]

maybe what might come out of all this is an appreciation of what we have ...
one thing that keeps me cheered in all this is the way people have rallied round to support their community especially after all the images not long ago of frenzied selfish panic buying...

 

[westfalia]

maybe what might come out of all this is an appreciation of what we have ...
one thing that keeps me cheered in all this is the way people have rallied round to support their community especially after all the images not long ago of frenzied selfish panic buying...

Exactly,

 

[westfalia]

I hope you have the permission of all the people on these pictures you've taken and post them on a public forum?

The guys on the bench didn't mind too much.

 

[westfalia]

Here you go @TripleBee
2 mins from our house. Those are bottles of wine growing
that you see.

 

[Jay gas]

Here you go @TripleBee
2 mins from our house. Those are bottles of wine growing
that you see.
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My cousin is fortunate enough to live in the barrossa valley in south Australia his back garden backs onto a vineyard. Lucky bugger

 

[TripleBee]

Here you go @TripleBee
2 mins from our house. Those are bottles of wine growing
that you see.
View attachment 56843

Can't see no bottles, but magnificent view!

 

[ejmoore]

We have a nice flat, but no drive, or I'd have a mini-holiday in the van - don't fancy sleeping in it on our sloping street though

 

[Gazellio]

Given the current circumstances, are you still happy with where you live?
As we all are more or less imprisoned, I kind of appreciate my town more and more.
Apart from the high house prices, difficult access in and out my town, especially in high season, I always like the fact that when I am leaving my town in high season on a sundaymorning to go inland for a nice bike ride, there is a massive traffic jam towards my town. I then have the road clear to go inland.
When I return in the late afternoon, the traffic jam is the other way round.

But now, as we can't go outside our town, I start to appreciate my town.
I have, all within walking and biking distance: a nice beach, dunes, a forest of 41 hectares, 1400 hectares of polders.
We also have some nice medieval farms, a few parks, paths, ...

I have been outside walking everyday now for 12 consecutive days (thanks to the weather), and now I am very happy where I live, and not in a big town, where you'd have to take your car to get to the otherside of it to have some fresh air and the possibility to have a walk or ride.

To cheer you guys up (or to make some of you jealous?) I have some photo's:

First day at home, time for a walk, no fog at all. Then you arrive at the beach:
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Another day, the other direction:
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Enough social distance?
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A farm, originally from about the year 1200:
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Today:
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Does not look like the Milky Way to me?

 

[cowboyengineer]

This is the view from my conservatory.
I quite like it

 

[westfalia]

Does not look like the Milky Way to me?

Waaaaaay Hey He's Back.

 

[soulstyledevon]

I love where I live...


Lovely small town with a variety of cafes and restaurants. Great links to other nice towns such as Leamington Spa and Stratford Upon Avon.
Good road networks and I can get the train to London door to door 1hr 15mins.
Some lovely countryside around and I can nip over into the Cotswolds within 30mins.

My only want, being a surfer would be to have the Ocean close by.
It’s 2hrs away...
But I’ve never found anywhere coastal in the UK where I would be happy relocating too.
It’s the weather, or lack of it being the biggest hurdle...

 

[Anthony1]

I live near the sea, on the outskirts of chavsville - still better than a high rise bedsit in a city.

 

[Anthony1]

This is the view from my conservatory.
I quite like it

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I quite like it too.

 

[sapto]

I love where we live.

Also have a small garden we can use

 

[TripleBee]

I love where we live.

Also have a small garden we can use

I was planning to go to Switzerland again this july. Probably won't be the case anymore.
Although it would be very calm with this conditions.
And I always like to go hiking where no one else is around, so I would be self isolate enough in Stechelberg, up to the Schmadribachfälle, or behind the Trümmelbachfall up to Wengen.
And the second week doing a couple of dams (Grande Dixance etc...).

It will be for another time I guess.

 

[sapto]

I was planning to go to Switzerland again this july. Probably won't be the case anymore.
Although it would be very calm with this conditions.
And I always like to go hiking where no one else is around, so I would be self isolate enough in Stechelberg, up to the Schmadribachfälle, or behind the Trümmelbachfall up to Wengen.
And the second week doing a couple of dams (Grande Dixance etc...).

It will be for another time I guess.

Come back soon, always welcome!