Where do you go on WEEKENDS! ?

The reason this question is in Housing and not "fill_in_the_blank" is...

You can tell me where you live also, if you would like to share, please; but where and how do you spend your weekends? Which "other" neighborhood do you visit or do you stay in your own neighborhood?  Where you do go/visit, has it affected where you live now or where you want to live next?  Why dont you live in the area that you frequent the most (if you dont, or do you?)

If you have friends who live in different neighborhoods, do they come to visit you, do you visit them, or do you mostly meet in "neutral" or more popular/accessible areas?

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I live in the west end of Glasgow, and spend most of my weekends either at home trying to catch up on my sleep, or in the pub with my boyfriend and his pals.  The pubs we go to are in the city centre or the south side, simply because they like the beer in those particular pubs.

I live exactly where i want to live and have no plans to ever move again (touch wood!). 

I spend most of my weekends at work (I'll be out at work from 9.15am to 8pm today and from 9.15am to 6pm tomorrow)! I work shifts in retail so I have a day off every Wednesday and then I have to work every other weekend .

Are you trying to make an analogy between, say, living in Brooklyn and hanging out on the Lower East Side in Manhattan or something like that?  Because from my experience, everything is so much closer together in the UK and easily accessible (unless your way out in the countryside somewhere).  One "neighborhood" or village or town may be just a 20 minute walk or 5 minute or less drive away from another.

We live in Horsforth which is in Leeds.  Sometimes other friends and I meet up in the city centre of Leeds which is only a 15 minute bus ride away.  One couple we are friendly with live in a village about a half hour bus ride away.  It's a really cute village called Otley, and it would be cool to live there but both my husband and I actually live within 10 minute walking distance of our jobs, so it would be sort of not smart to move away at this point.

In the future we'd both love to live more rural.  Ultimately we'd love to live on the west coast of Ireland, but for now we are so conveniently located for work, a variety of friends, and a city centre that is so much smaller than Manhattan or Philadelphia, but does offer a lot of culture, shopping, etc.

I live in southwest Cornwall. On weekends we usually go to the beach - minutes away. We don't stray far from home.

Are you thinking in terms of how people in Philly visit the Jersey shore for the weekend, or people in NY go to the Hamptons?

I'm not really sure we do that, weekends involve the supermarket, household chores and generally chilling out - but popular is to take a weekend European city break, leave on Friday come back Monday.

I think that, because we get far more vacation time, generally, than in the US, we are far less likely to be wanting to get away every weekend, so we don't feel we are wasting weekends as much if we just spend them at home.

We're in Surrey. If we go anywhere at the weekend it's to London for the afternoon.  But usually it's just our town or the next town over for general errands.

I live in Northern Scotland. 
On the weekends, I catch up on sleep, run errands, visit with friends, go to the pubs, go to the cinema, walk around town, catch a show at the theatre. The usual. If I'm feeling ok, we may go out for a walk around some of the lochs or along the beach or hill walking. 

Finally we're out of the "must spend weekends running errands to set up house" phase.    We're located pretty centrally in Marylebone in London.  There's not one particular neighborhood we purposefully spend more time in, other than our own.  We just hop on the train/bus and go to wherever the restaurant, museum, film, park, or point of interest is that we're wanting to go to. 

We're in Surrey. If we go anywhere at the weekend it's to London for the afternoon.  But usually it's just our town or the next town over for general errands.

Ditto

I have three little kids and this is rural Western Scotland.  

I mostly go to the utility room at weekends to load/unload the washing machine, although I usually tack on a few minutes on either side to get a little peace into the bargain.

If it's dry and not midgie season, we air out the kids.

Interesting topic, I've enjoyed reading the responses!

My first 4 years in the UK, I had a "carpe diem" attitude and spent every weekend trying to "suck the marrow out of life" (quote from Dead Poets Society). � This included traipsing all over London as well as taking weekend trips away with a variety of travel companies (some of them cheap and cheerful) which took me to places such as the Isle of Wight, Devon and Cornwall, Belgium, France and Germany (yes, all in just a weekend!). � TNT Magazine is a great source for these tour operators, as they cater to the Antipodean (and South African) crowd, many of whom are only planning to be in the UK 1-2 years.

These first 4 years coincided with a period of instability in my life before I had ILR (work permit route). � Once I obtained ILR, my life changed dramatically and the carpe diem effect wore off (granted, I am also getting old!)

In my last 4+ years in the UK, I have tended to stay close to home and do more of the types of things I used to do in the USA (errands, window shopping, just kicking around at home). � I live on the zone 3/4 border in West London, and tend to hang out within a 1 mile radius of my house at weekends, which includes Chiswick, Ealing, Kew, Richmond and even Hounslow (for shopping). � My current job takes me out to Surrey during the work week on the overground train, so I rarely have to use the tube, and on the rare occasions that DH and I do venture into central London, I am reminded as to why I now actively avoid it!

My first 4 years in the UK, I had a "carpe diem" attitude and spent every weekend trying to "suck the marrow out of life" (quote from Dead Poets Society).

Quote from David Henry Thoreau....

My weekends are usually spent in a combination of seeing friends, going to the pub, watching football, and catching up on sleep.  My friends live all over London, so we often meet centrally.  Tonight is a house warming in Greenwich, last night was a mate's band in Kings Cross, tomorrow night is Burns' Night in Fincley.  Sundays usually church then chilling, going to Farmers markets, picnics on Parliament Hill Fields in the summer, heading into museums...there are just millions of things to do in London. 

I always recommend getting the Guardian Guide on a Saturday.


Vicky

Are you trying to make an analogy between, say, living in Brooklyn and hanging out on the Lower East Side in Manhattan or something like that?  Because from my experience, everything is so much closer together in the UK and easily accessible (unless your way out in the countryside somewhere).  One "neighborhood" or village or town may be just a 20 minute walk or 5 minute or less drive away from another.

I agree. It's different because things are close together.  My "neighbourhood" is a 20-minute walk from the City Centre, and I'm not that much further from the next village in the other direction.  People might stay close to home to socialise at the local pub, but it's not going to be a big deal to get to the nearest town centre to go to a restaurant or a cinema. I

My usual weekend consists of chores, so the furthest I go is the supermarket.

If you are talking about a leisurely long weekend with money to spend, then people can easily travel anywhere in the UK or Ireland as well as the closer parts of Europe.

I live in the suburbs of Newcastle, so it depends on what I feel like doing on the weekend (that is, when I'm not staying in and keeping warm!). If my boyfriend and I want to go catch a movie or go to a restaurant, etc, we'll probably head into Newcastle, since it's a 15 minute train ride or an under 10 minute drive. Sometimes I meet up with friends to go shopping there, as well. I mean, we have a strip mall with a cinema and stores right by our house, but there's a lot more to do and a lot more interesting stuff in Newcastle. Of course, since I commute in from work, I don't always like to spend my weekends there.

We're also about 20 minutes from Northumberland, which is (I think) the most rural county in England, so during the summer we go there quite a lot to go hiking, picnicking and looking at castles and what-have-you. I would LOVE to be able to live in Northumberland, but I've got to find a job I can do from home first.