Favourite place to live in the UK?

[Penny-Louise]

Devon and Cornwall are lovely if you live there (and therefore can choose nice days to go to the coast) but employment prospects are poor. Another crappy summer will probably keep the UK tourist market down, no-one will believe the Met Office next spring when they again say it will be a good summer. And that's the main of the work in the far South West.

I am on my way to Provence in France, but I've been around the M62 corridor close to the Yorkshire Pennines for a few years. It's within reach of a large population, it's close to Leeds and Manchester, and seems to have weathered the recession better than London (I'm a life coach, so I tend to be in the high end of the market, and I see buoyancy up North and not in London, where I also work).

Manchester night life is good, Leeds is non-existent, despite their claims to be a 24 hour city (in fact, one coffee bar stays open). The provincial towns, Halifax, Huddersfield and the like can be very lively, but the age group that goes out is young.

Penny x