[Closed] Ever been on holiday and stayed?

I moved to Aviemore after many holiday visits. Does that count?

yes.

Went to Arran for the first time in May, now looking at selling up and moving there. Hopefully it'll happen.

I'm in Whistler, as I have been the last 3 holidays, I'm due to leave on Saturday.

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Presently I want to live in Falmouth

the tourists would drive you nuts

Have friends in Falmouth, you can do better!

We used to spend 3-4 hours travelling up to holiday in Derbyshire when we were down in Sussex. Now we live here! 😀

Has anyone not bothered going home or gone home, sold up and gone back?

I met a guy who had done that. Sold up and moved to Lewis after a holiday there. I happened to be going to Lewis the following week. His first comment was 'want to buy a house?' Apparently within a few months they had grown to hate it.

you need a big supermarket?

Big ish.

There are only so many artisan delis that I and my bank balance can cope with.

Went with my brother in law and his family to Seattle one year (he lived in New Jersey at the time), they moved over there the next year.

Was on holiday in Australia. One night I woke up with a panic as I dreamt I was at home. The relief of still being out there made me phone up work and resign.
I was still living with my parents so it was not as big a step as it would be now.

yes, went to China for a Holiday... 14 years later.... looking to come back

Conversely (and backing up the Lewis story) we love North Uist. Been there twice in the past three years and planning to return next year. No fricking way I could "live" there though!

We were invited up from Liverpool to the Highlands for a hogmanay party. Never been here before, decided we liked it, moved up 10 weeks later. That was well over twenty years ago now. Best decision we ever made.

Presently I want to live in Falmouth

It's my home town & I bloody love it.

I've never upped sticks and moved but had a holiday in Egypt and ended up staying 5 months. Was quite an adventure, had to sort visas out when my holiday one expired, got a room in a shared flat with some Ukrainians. Great fun!

I spent many holidays over here (the UK) from Canada, and now I live here. I assume that counts?

In the meantime, we have passed through the Belgian Ardennes many times and thought it was very underrated. Now we own a static caravan there as a permanent holiday home, and talk about possibly retiring there.

Yep, spent a weekend in Bath (lived in Leicester at the time). Moved to Bath a few months later and been here for 17 years...

Every time I go to swanage I want to move there... Same with the hope valley

Yes. Ibiza in 1997. Met the wife a few months later. Stayed for 6 years.

After spending a month in New Zealand, having being made redundant, with no job to go back too, I was hell bent on staying out there, and was seriously looking at not coming back.

Pregnancy has a way of interfering with your plans though. Obviously I'll hold it against the little sod for the rest of her life 🙂

Could easily have done so in Liguria last month.

Wonderful place.

Lake District..after many years visiting got the chance last year to move up. Loving it so far.

Same as above went to Ibiza when i was 20 and stayed for a year.

Went on hols to Upper Teesdale. Moved there a few months later.

I work with several people who've either come over for a short contact and stayed or holidays and stayed and one guy came over for a party and stayed. 😯
The party guy is married to an ex colleague of mine. Been here 7 or 8 years.

One of the "short contract" guys only took a permanent job a couple of years ago, he stayed short term in case he wanted to move on again. Since he arrived he's got married, lived in two or three houses and got his first kid through uni. Went permanent when the second kid started uni........ 20+ years on short term contracts. With the same employer.

We moved here after a holiday. Took a while to sort out (18 months IIRC) but not regretted it.

Yup, Wigan to Vancouver... hardly a difficult decision....

Yeh wanna live in Pembrokeshire now. Back to Surrey on Monday. Wife steadfastly refuses to leave her job and take the kids out of school just so I can set up my small holding and coasteering business. I really can't understand her concerns...

Rent the same cottage every year for last 7/8 years in Patterdale for our holiday and would move to the Lakes in a shot.

I went to the Basque country for a 2 week holiday. Got home and planned my exit, after about 3 months I moved there and stayed for 10 years.

Rose tinted spectacles?

Funny question perhaps, but are you folks who've upped sticks town or country dwellers originally? And have your family moved around before you left 'home' as it were?

I'm lucky, I already live in a quaint little cottage in the rural welsh marches with sheep for neighbours. I sometimes travel to places I like, that I really like in fact, but I could never leave, my family, maternal and paternal sides, and my other half's family have lived and worked, and mostly farmed around here for centuries. They've woken up to the same views, travelled the same lanes, worked the same ground, known the old names for every hill, road bend, pool. I just couldn't feel at home anywhere else.

No.

But returned from Menorca yesterday, immediately packed my bag, back into the rat race on a train to Dorchester Premier Inn and home tomorrow night.

There has to be better than this. Feel trapped TBH.

I went to the Basque country for a 2 week holiday

Snap. 8 years now and can't think of a better place for my 3yo to grow up. I miss the mothership sometimes but not sure where; I'm from Cumbria but have lived away longer than I ever lived there. Both teachers so 2 months off in summer and stupendously good road and mountain biking pretty much nail it for the foreseeable.

my family, maternal and paternal sides, and my other half's family have lived and worked, and mostly farmed around here for centuries. They've woken up to the same views, travelled the same lanes, worked the same ground, known the old names for every hill, road bend, pool. I just couldn't feel at home anywhere else.

There is that as well. Good point.

if you do this every holiday then maybe there is something about home?

Nope, I have travelled much, but love my native Leeds. Easy links to everywhere, good living and on the doorstep of one of the worlds most beautiful regions. Many places have better weather, better wealth, beter transport and photographic beauty, but as a place to live and travel from then Leeds has a lot of advantages, and as a city that was at the centre of our industrial revolution I believe we can take our country screaming into a profitable and enjoyable 21st century.

My parents did it when I was little. It meant I grew up in West Cornwall instead of Manchester, which was awesome.

I'm pretty sure when it I landed in Perth 5 years ago it was just for a holiday. Had grand plans for the east coast and and New Zealand. But instead I bet a girl and stuck around. Looking to head home soon though which is rather exciting!

But instead I bet a girl and stuck around

I'm pretty sure when it I landed in Perth 5 years ago it was just for a holiday. Had grand plans for the east coast and and New Zealand. But instead I bet a girl and stuck around. Looking to head home soon though which is rather exciting!

Similar. Arrived in Perth almost 10 years ago to the day on a working holiday visa. Plan was to work for 6 months, do a lap and go home. I have been back to the UK once since then (2 weeks of rain 4 years ago). I have married a local, become a citizen, fathered two aussies and moved as far as the nation's mighty capital city (TM). No plans to leave.

OP,I,m in Devon now just having the same thoughts.But I am from Middlesbrough and therefore I,m easily pleased.Anybody got anywhere pleasant and affordable to rent in Exeter?

I guess I should probably end up as a yes then....
Holiday in 07, long trip in 09/10 and now permanent resident applying for my citizenship. Made it from the glittering north of Tassie to the vibrant south.

Moved from Leeds to Suffolk 20 years ago, best desicion ever.

if you do this every holiday then maybe there is something about home?

It always wears off somewhere near Taunton Services.