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If you could live anywhere in Europe?

Berlin.

Just got back from another visit there, and stayed there for 4 months in 2013. It has all the benefits of a large city (you can get a drink in a quiet bar any day of the week after midnight - are you listening, London?), but lots of space and individual neighbourhoods that also give it a human scale. In fact, it has huge amounts of space, yet is small enough that if you want to go and see friends who live on the other side of town, you can easily do so on a bike (while riding on great bike lanes). It has a strongly progressive and social culture, and despite all the creative and interesting things going on, the people doing those things aren't up themselves. It's a city where you can pretty much be who you want to be and no-one cares.
 
Lots of places - all of it please!

Paris again, Berlin too on the basis of my brief encounter. Rural France maybe but might be too much, or rather, too little.

And then Sardinia. If I had to spend the rest of my days eating fillet beef-esque tuna and knocking back Cannonau, then that would suit me fine.
 
I don't know, I'll have to go on more holidays and check out a few more places to help me decide.;)

If I was going to leave London I've always thought I'd want to live by the sea. Where that would be would probably depend on if I'm required to have a job in this fantasy scenario,
 
Lots of places I'd visit again... But live? Hmm. Maybe in the alps somewhere. Southern France maybe.

I love Berlin, but don't want to live in a big city again. Netherlands is great - but the countryside is rubbish. Spain has lovely places, but it is made up of a lot of ultra conservative villages, isolated urbanisations, grim out of town housing estates and retail parks. Nordics and Scotland are amazing and dramatic but miserable for 6 months of the year.

Yeah, southern France or where I am now but more in the countryside.
 
AuntiStella said:
Somewhere the opposite of London... rural, quiet, clean and with land.... Andalucia - but away from where the Brits live!!!!
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Andalucia is wonderful. The smaller inland towns have very few Brits, which is nice. But places like Granada, Seville, Cordova etc all have very small ex-pat communities. You should talk to Stan if ever you decide to come over to live.
 
If I didn't live in London I would pick Italy, probably Rome; such a "comfy" city.

Spymaster said:
These are the red routes in Wandsworth which includes Southfields Red routes | Red routes | Wandsworth Council. I'd be surprised if any are actually mainly residential streets. I'm not saying you're wrong but the idea is to keep major routes moving so it would seem strange.
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Picking on one street in that list, Battersea Church Rd, It's mainly residential, except for a shop or two, a church and Dimson Lodge.
 
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Picking on one street in that list, Battersea Church Rd, It's mainly residential, except for a shop or two, a church and Dimson Lodge.
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Again, looking on Street View, the red route only extends about 20/30 yards into Battersea Church Rd, from Battersea Bridge Road, which often happens to keep the turnings from and to major roads clear.
 
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doddles said:
Berlin.

Just got back from another visit there, and stayed there for 4 months in 2013. It has all the benefits of a large city (you can get a drink in a quiet bar any day of the week after midnight - are you listening, London?), but lots of space and individual neighbourhoods that also give it a human scale. In fact, it has huge amounts of space, yet is small enough that if you want to go and see friends who live on the other side of town, you can easily do so on a bike (while riding on great bike lanes). It has a strongly progressive and social culture, and despite all the creative and interesting things going on, the people doing those things aren't up themselves. It's a city where you can pretty much be who you want to be and no-one cares.
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I lived there for about 3mths over a summer. i found it a much more civil city than London. Obviously London has many things that Berlin doesn't but just in terms of quality of cultural life, transport and general liveability it trumps London.

Interestingly I Just saw 'Bridge of Spies' this week and shows how in the late '50s what a bloody awful place it was to live.
 
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If I could live anywhere in Europe, I would choose Italia :p Not only because of their incredibly delicious food, but also because of their mentality, their lifestyle and their culture ;) I have been in Italia for several times and I enjoyed every single trip… they have wonderful beaches and a beautiful biota… also learned the language at school, but because of the fact that I don’t speak it permanently, it doesn’t sound that good :p I hope that someday I can spent the rest of my life in Tuscany ..
 
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