Moving out of London

I got moved back by work after 18 months in Bristol. Was kinda happy at the time.

Now I'm moving back out- like being able to catch up with people but will not miss the rest of the city.

Currently. Yes. I miss the culture and chaos.

Moved back to Bristol after about a year of deepest Cornwall. Too isolating, expensive, samey, it didn't work for us on a number of levels but we'd always kinda thought we might do that.

Nope.

As other people have articulated, the buzz of walking down an over-stimulating congested high street is hard to replicate (however other cities are available) and there is a definite ‘small’ mentality from the people who’ve never left a place but the quality of space/air/countryside/etc make up for that. After a year here we are also now starting to make new friends, admittedly mostly DFLs.

A reversey percy; No but over the last 6 months I've thought more and more about the things I miss in the UK and moving back.

My wife and I moved out to Toronto at the end of 2013. She had dual citizenship and sponsored me as a PR. We're both from Newcastle/Northumberland but had been living for just over two years in London. Whilst there were things I liked about London, it was hard, expensive and too busy to carry on living there. After a 10 day trip to Toronto we made our minds up and moved here.

Whilst we have had a great time and seen our quality of life increase (in terms of lower cost of living, higher wages, less stress), the rising costs of property mean that we probably won't be able to afford a home in the city. Couple that with a brutally long winter and more than a passing sense of the grass being greener, I can't get the thought of moving back to somewhere in the north where life is a little more simple and I could actually afford to buy a house and have a family. Whether we'll go through with it is another matter.