Poll: Where Does Everyone Live?

Of all these places, Delft is certainly an eye catcher. I hope you can relive these good times once the new meds can take care of your tinnitus. I don't know if you're from Hungary, but I heard great stories about Debrecen, Pecs and Budapest. My youngest sister went there once and she told me great stories about the architecture and local cuisine. Hope to see it up close one day once my tinnitus diminished by FX-322 or something else.

 

Yep, you're spot on, I'm from the capital (near to it), but all the cities/towns you mentioned are worth visiting. Hope that traveling again will be a possibility for both of us in the future.

 

If you come across Rutte again, tell him to send money to Spain asap... our president is desperate for it :-P

Just joking...

The Hague must be a good place to live. I am based in Southern Spain, by the beach.

 

Budapest is an amazing city. So beautiful, and good food!

 

It's always worth a try @Juan , but I think you should better ask your poor old (former) king Juan Carlos about that. He seems to have some loose change somewhere
It's pretty good, but I think the sandy beaches in the South are more . dos cervezas por favor Where do you live? Is it a nice town/city?

 

That would actually be pretty awesome haha, think my last visit was in 2018 when I still had free student traveling... I miss it

 

Spanish politicians are cowards and dont want to investigate the former king, even if 100 millions were found in several foreign jurisdictions... everyone knew, but this country is beyond repair

Yeah, I am now living in San José. There are amazing beaches here, and it's quiet.

I have been to the Netherlands twice, Rotterdam, Amsterdam... I would like to visit again some day

 

@Juan definitely give the south a visit if you can sometime! Maastricht and Den Bosch are nice cities, I've gone to both a lot. Amsterdam is cool but it's too busy for me

 

I didnt like Amsterdam too much. I remember ending up in an Indonesian restaurant who claimed the food was typical from the Netherlands... that was a bit shocking haha.

I will definitely come back to explore more. I like bikes!

 

Boston, Mass.

 

@Juan @Christiaan @Kriszti @ASilverLight

We should totally meet up in Europe somewhere haha! Be awesome to meet everyone at once.

I'm SO jealous you guys live permanently in Europe. I hate England so much. The country is screwed. Just being back here for lock down, has been awful.

 

Your choice of course @Steph1710 I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, as this is a fantastic country.....

 

@Michael Leigh I suppose it's okay if you're older, (meant in a nice way) but you have to remember us younger folk can't really afford to rent here - let alone buy a house! Especially as the average house price is £237.000. And even if we did manage to save £15,000 for a deposit. It would take years and years and would mean we could never go out and do anything because we'd have a property we couldn't afford to pay for. :-/

Also our education system is one of the worse in Europe. The only way for young people now to have a really good education in Britain, is to go private. In other countries private education isn't such a big deal because comprehensive education is good.

I mean back in the 1940s when our welfare state, set up from the Beveridge Reports was implemented - Britain was ahead of its game.. However, our system is now outdated.

The NHS is failing (over stretched by our ever increasing population), our education system is failing; house prices are forever increasing. The retirement age, for crying out loud, is 67 in England!
My generation will never even be able to retire. We will have to work until we're dead.

I mean even our roads are shot to bits! My brother-in-law spent a month in Holland, and when he drove back in England, he stopped because he thought the car was broken... Turned out the car was fine. He just wasn't used to driving on such bad roads haha.

Don't get me wrong Michael; I absolutely love this country. It is beautiful. I live in Suffolk and we have both forest and coastline. I feel extremely privileged to be in the area that I am. Everyday I go out exploring our beautiful land. I work with the National Trust, so each day I see our incredible buildings and landscapes throughout East Anglia and other counties. We are an island steeped in fascinating history of which I have built my whole career around.

However, the government needs to realise that we are now behind the times. The Empire is long dead.

And for crying out loud! Stop building so many bloody houses everywhere! There isn't a housing crisis! There's a population crisis!

Love a very dissolutioned Steph
<3

 

Lol, to be fair, Dutch roads are just extremely good - at least asphalt. I personally don't think English roads are that bad, I've never felt off or anything when in England, but to be fair my main experience is in Newcastle (and more recently the Lake District and driving to and from).

You want to know bad roads? Drive through Belgium no shade, love the country, but entering Belgium from the Netherlands is like a horror story.

 

Funny cause I always say the roads in Belgium are as bad as the roads in England. You know when you hit Germany because the roads are suddenly immaculate.

We actually have a major problem with our roads here. It makes headlines all the time, and people do funny things like spray painting dicks around our many pot holes haha.

 

I lived in London for a while, near Russell Square and loved it there. It was a long time ago, though, in pre-hyperacusis days.

Yeah, definitely it would be great to meet!

 

Although you are new to tinnitus @Steph1710 I like the way you think and your positive attitude to life. It has never been easy to buy a property. Although I am a young looking 60 year old so people tell me, it wasn't easy for me to own my own place either. A lot of people want it all and not prepared to make certain sacrifices or to go without. They want it all and and life just isn't like that no matter where you live. I am proud of this country and our fabulous NHS. Please don't be fooled by what the media tells you.

I have been an out-patient under the NHS for 24 years with tinnitus and had wonderful treatment to say the least. To bring you up to speed: My brother who I am going to take home from hospital on Monday has been there for 5 weeks. He as had exemplary treatment in my opinion under our wonderful NHS. I have been so impressed with the courtesy and help they have given to my brother and shown to me, that I wrote to the Chief executive of the hospital earlier this week, to commend him on the way the hospital is run especially in the troubled times that we are in with covid 19. I bought the medical staff the largest tin of Quality Street chocolates available and with a card, Thanking them for all they have done for my brother.

Do not be fooled by what you hear in the media. People only talk about the negatives rarely talk about the positives.

Take care
Michael

 

@Michael Leigh

My views are from experience - not from the media. I'm quite offended you would even suggest that.

And keep in mind just because you might have had good experiences dealing with the NHS, doesn't mean everybody else has. Though I am super pleased for you, and your brother. <3

As for "media", Tinnitus Talk is the only media I have. I don't watch the news, I don't have Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, newspapers etc. In fact, I'm continually telling people not to believe the media.

I'm in shock someone would believe me to be a sheep!

My statistics come from the study of social, economic, and political history, which I specialised in before I moved on to architectural history... Old buildings are way better!

Young people don't "want it all". I am 30 years old, so not so young. Most of my friends work full time jobs and still rent because nobody can afford to save a £25,000 deposit for a mortgage, whilst forking out £800 on just rent alone each month.

In a nutshell: house prices keep rising quicker than the average wage increases.

Oh and one last thing, I had to write a 1000 word letter of complaint to the NHS only last week.

Everyone's version of reality is different hey.

Anyway, I don't wish to fall out because that's silly. In fact I was rather hoping to come to Brighton and meet you one sunny day. I've never been but people tell me I'd love it.

Steph

 

@Michael Leigh have you ever visited Brighton pavilion? I really, really want to go!

 

Regarding property, I think we are in for a deep economic crisis, and real estate prices will fall. In fact they are already falling but there is still a long way to drop.

 

Richmond BC Canada... From MTL Que.

 

@Steph1710

Sorry to hear about your experiences with the NHS. It has its problems like any large organisation and won't get things right all the time. I hope you get a reply to your letter and they take onboard the issues you have raised and improve on them. My intention wasn't to cause you offence or imply that you want it all, so please accept my apologies. I am proud of our NHS and defend it vigorously and hope it never becomes private. Some of the horror stories I'm told from people beyond our shores, is frightening to say the least regarding help for tinnitus, which I have written about in my posts on TRT.

Twenty four years ago when I first got tinnitus and suffering a lot, the Hearing Therapist I had didn't have a clue about tinnitus. She was quite dismissive that it could be a problem and found her beside manner to be rude and abrupt on occasions. I wrote a letter of complaint to the head of Audiology and never saw her again. My new Hearing Therapist was totally different and understood everything I was going through and wasn't surprised, when told she was born with tinnitus. After a few months into TRT, I learned my previous hearing therapist had been dismissed by the hospital after other patients made complaints.

I was born and bred in London and moved to Brighton in 2014. I have always wanted to live by the sea but never thought it would come to fruition. In 2008 I suffered a second noise trauma and written about this in my post: My experience with tinnitus, please click on the link below. My tinnitus changed dramatically and so did my life and took 4 long years to habituate for the second time. I was unable to read a book for 2 years as the tinnitus had large fluctuations in intensity and each day was a different experience that affected my mental and emotional wellbeing profoundly.

In 2010 I attempted to get back into reading but each book I tried could only manage a few pages and ended up putting it down never to return to it. It was a frustrating time and seriously thought I would never be able to read again but something inside gave me the will to carry on. I was browsing Amazon and read a synopsis of a book written by an Author I never heard of Peter James. The book was titled: Dead Simple, first in the Roy Grace series about a Brighton based Detective Superintendent. I ordered it and took 5 weeks to read. Due to daily fluctuations in tinnitus that could reach very severe levels, so could only manage reading a few pages at a time.

I liked Peter James writing style and the way he described the locations in Brighton and surrounding seaside towns. The writing was so vivid in my mind's eye could easily see myself in the story. I ordered the second book in the series: Looking good dead, and captivated once again and felt relieved to be getting back into reading even though it took weeks to finish. After reading book 8 Not Dead Yet, which focuses a lot on the Brighton Pavillion and Gaia Lafayette. Brighton born and now a famous Hollywood actress, returning home to shoot a movie and is stalked by someone obsessed with her.

Peter James' writing paints a picture so vivid of the Brighton Pavillion including the secret underground walkway that I had to come down from London to see it. The architecture inside and out is a sight to behold so too is the magnificent chandelier in the main dinning room which forms the focal point of the story. Try to come and see it but before you do, read Not Dead Yet, as I think your experience of the Pavillion will have more meaning. However, I advise reading all the Roy Grace books starting with Dead Simple. The new RG is just out: Find Them Dead. All the RG books have dead in the title.

I wrote to PJ telling him about my tinnitus and how much I enjoyed the Roy Grace books and the difficulties I had returning to reading. He kindly replied and whenever a new R-G was published I attended his book signings. By then I began thinking I want to move to Brighton and the feeling just wouldn't leave me and somehow felt here was my destiny. I wrote to PJ and asked for advice of some nice places to live in Brighton. He replied giving a lot of helpful information and mentioned, he had never been asked something like this before because moving home is a big step and hoped everything works out which thankfully has. I don't want to live anywhere else. My neighbours are great the area is quiet and serene and have a wonderful view of the south-downs. It's a 15 min drive to the seafront and was there yesterday basking in the sun and reading my Kindle. The sound of the sea lapping against the shore with seagulls all around makes me completely forget about covid 19 and other troubles in the world for a time, then return home feeling relaxed and quite content.

Do come and visit Brighton I'm sure you'll love it and perhaps we'll meet up.

Take care
Michael

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/my-experience-with-tinnitus.12076/

 

I grow up in Massachusetts and lived in the woods with ponds and streams. The first settlers that lived outside of the Boston area, lived in a meadow 50 yards from my parents house. At about twelve, 55 years along, I started to dig around in the meadow that had beautiful wild flowers. I found some square nails, marbles, bronze and gold English coins with dates of 1600's and 1700's. Now living in California, google shows hundred's of houses in this wooded area.

 

@Forever hopeful and @Greg Sacramento hi there, just giving you a shout as I come from Massachusetts.

I live in Vientiane Laos now. It's a special place with good people.

 

@Greg Sacramento

Sounds like an absolute dream. I have always longed to live in America. So much vast forest and mountains.

Jealous is an understatement.

Amazing!!

I found a fossil last weekend. I was out exploring a massive abandoned quarry and literally stepped on it. That's the second one I've found down there.

 

I’ve just recently been keen to move somewhere else and start a new life once this is over. I was thinking about moving to California or Idaho, USA.

 

Ontario, Canada. Land of hockey, maple syrup, and people who say "Eh?" a lot.

 

Why California or Idaho?

 

Heard great things about those two places. I also wouldn’t mind living somewhere in Europe too just to experience something new.

 

I'm also thinking of moving to the USA (temporally), but have some doubts between Vermont and New Hampshire. According to this guy, Idaho is pretty swell and it's the fastest growing state in the nation.

Top 10 BEST STATES to Live in America for 2020

But based on his criteria (economy, safety, sustainability, housing, education, etc.), these are the 3 best states to live atm:
3. Massachusetts
2. New Hampshire
1. Washington State