Best place to work and live in the UK.

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Looking at relocating to the UK in the future i.e. next 5 years. Don't!
Where has been the best place to live and work for you?
Will be likely working within the NHS. Why?!!
If I wasn't a few years off a consultant post and newly married to a fellow surgeon I'd of well pissed off back to NZ or possibly Oz
 
If you want a town full of traffic lights and speed bumps; where every town centre shop is a wimmin's shop, a photocopy of every other town centre in the country; where big brand names send a the stuff nobody else will buy, to be lapped up at full price by brainless punters; where teenage pregnancy and divorce leads Europe; where second hand cars are the most expensive for hundreds of miles around; where all the interesting architecture has been demolished and turned into car parks in the name of modernisation; where the schools regularly scrape the bottom of the national league tables; where every time you search for something interesting for sale on eBay, it's never within 100 miles; a town that can look down its nose on Slough only, then ......
Choose sunny Swindon.
 

Boring? depends if you enjoy conversing with a variety of people from all corners of the earth.

Oh and banging the sexy ones...
There's an interesting mix in Cambridge right enough, but some pretty substantial negatives - it's eye-wateringly expensive. Not just pricey in the way a lot of nice cities are, but off the charts due to it being in easy train commuter distance of the City. It's small and claustrophobic - completely dominated by the university (which is beautiful, tbf). Population oscillates wildly as 30000 entitled Teds come and go every 8 weeks. Surrounding countryside is dismal. Plus the trip to Goodison treats you to the slowest train journey in the UK - 4 hours+ to go less than 200 miles.

If you had to live there you'd make it work and it could be great. As a choice of destination, though, don't think many people would consider it.
 
If I wasn't a few years off a consultant post and newly married to a fellow surgeon I'd of well pissed off back to NZ or possibly Oz
Reason being I've wanted to live here for a while. I have a passport and it provides a base for me to travel a bit and see the world.
I get to watch Everton in the flesh, and the NHS is very well reputed over here.
I could work in private practise I guess but I do like the hospital environment.
 

I lived in London/Kent for years. Been in East Sussex for 13 years and love it.

Trivia. It's the only county in England with no motorways.

It is very white/middle class so we have some amusing moments when I take my Asian or Black mates in the local - not because the regulars are racist, just because it is an unusual occurrence.

Really nice poeple where I live.

Norfolk has no motorways and is a great county.
 
Reason being I've wanted to live here for a while. I have a passport and it provides a base for me to travel a bit and see the world.
I get to watch Everton in the flesh, and the NHS is very well reputed over here.
I could work in private practise I guess but I do like the hospital environment.
Trust me, as an insider, the NHS is in poorly managed decline. Really loosing faith. But I didn't want to work private hence never went to Oz.
The Everton bit.. Yeah I missed going the match. Getting up at 5am was hard.
The travelling bit.. Yeah Europe is amazing. The architecture, the culture and history. Hard to get anything like that in the world in one continent.
And kiwi birds are.. well.. you won't want to go back to one (soz if you're married I'm sure she's ace)
Good luck with it!
 

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