Where would you choose to live?

[Darwin.]

Would you like a shotgun and a couple of big growling dogs to go with your " Gerroff moy lan' " when someone comes near?

I had the growling dogs, two pure bred German Shepherds, they ruined my lawn and killed my plants so they had to go. The shotgun might not be a bad idea though

[cardiffsteve]

I want to go back to Kauai.
Such a lovely place want to live there.

[out in the cold]

I hope you can bake bud!

Oi! I haven't even viewed the place yet and you're booking GYO guests for afternoon tea!

[wizzbang]

There are a few places I would live if given the choice.
Firstly Birchover in Derbyshire. White Peak
Then perhaps Elton, also in Derbyshire. White Peak
Then Snowdonia, a little village that I can neither pronounce or spell!
Also love it around Northumberland Newbiggin and Craster but its a bit nippy round there for me.
And perhaps as a last consideration is close to Loch Morar near Mallaig On the way to Skye.
But I am happy to go to Cressage in Shropshire for the moment.
Lynne x

[out in the cold]

I like it here in Alford.

Would like a move into the countryside round here as and when we move (few years away yet though, as only moved here just over a year ago)

My other favourite places include Appin in Argyll, Derbyshire near Bakewell, and Oakehampton in Devon

[mrbadexample]

Bedale, or York I think. Or maybe Knaresborough.

Or if it's Kent, then Appledore.

Or if I'm off to New Zealand with BB, then Queenstown. I like the views:

[WendyC]

The way that it is being rapidly concreted over I wouldn't recommend West Sussex. We're looking to East Anglia when we don't need to be here any more.

[VirginVegGrower]

I've had the latter already!
Growing fruit trees on what was probably a beach to the North of Cambridge before the fens were drained is not easy.
1ft of topsoil then sand and gravel shows how little time has elapsed since the area was first inhabited.
If you watch Time Team, they often are working in quite deep soils - the soil being deep because it has been inhabited and cultivated for centuries or even millennia.

If I could choose an ideal fruit-growing soil, it would be a bit deeper than my current soil (say 1.5ft rather than the 1ft I have now) and it would not waterlog easily but not dry too quickly in summer (a gentle slope?), it would be in a fairly low-rainfall area but more than where I am now (say 75cm per year rather than the 50cm I get now). The climate would be fairly mild.
I would grow large bushes or small half-standards on very vigorous rootstocks.

So I would say that the ideal regions for fruit growing in the way I think produces the best fruit for no-spray growing, would be East Anglia, East Midlands and South-East England.

You should buy the castle at the back of me. Old orchard - unknown varieties. Fight you for it East Mids too

[VirginVegGrower]

This one needs a person to love it

Sinai Park House

[chris]

I do like Wales, but I really love Devon. Somewhere in the country down there. I went to uni in Exeter, and really did enjoy my time there - perhaps one day. I'd quite like to start a B&B down there perhaps, bit of a side project sort of thing.. Keep some hens, grow my own veg yada yada - local / home grown food served too (B&B with a twist like ).

My wife won't move though, so for now I'm stuck in a windy, wet "bowl" of a valley

Edit: Or, quite like the climate in the Wilshire-ish area too.

[SarzWix]

With a lottery win... 6 bedroom detached house for sale in Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 or 5 bedroom farm house for sale in Pennal, SY20, SY20

[chris]

Dunno, is there enough land in the 2nd one, SW?

[bubblewrap]

I'm happy where I am now.
Allotment 5 minuets walk.
Bus stop (going to Nottingham) 5 Minuets walk
Railway station 5 minuets walk.
B&Q & Aldi again 5 minuets walk.
Town centre shops & a couple of nice pubs 15 minuets walk.
PLUS open country close by.
Street was blocked off as a through route 18 months ago & we have a residents parking scheme(we can now park close to the house)

One SMALL request warmer weather.

[Feral007]

Wow I don't even know where I'd live over here if given the choice. I've always been a sea person, don't like to be too far away. But now I'm in the mountains and it's really quite more-ish. I've always liked northern NSW, but it's getting overun with people now.
I'm quite hard to please, and that's not even taking the soil into consideration. And you say you have a foot of soil? Well, you're going well already!

I rather fancy the idea of house sitting for people and finding out what the area and the local people are like first...........that is if I didn't have umpteen nags and the kelpie's - barking dogs rather than growling ones.

So, no help here whichever way you look at it. They do grow apples at Batlow tho FB

[taff]

I love Wales but the weather is rubbish. I went there recently for somehting and I was driving along the Heads of the Valleys and it was grey and dismal and damp. It doesn't get sunny very often, so when it does, it's like a little party, but it's not sunny enough for me.

I'd have a few houses and move as the whim took me.
Dorset/Devon, Italy, North America/Canada