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What's it like living here?

Living in Bournemouth

What's It Like To Live in Bournemouth?

Bournemouth is one of Britain's premier coastal towns, boasting awarding winning beaches, parks and gardens, leisure centres, restaurants and a variety of shopping outlets ranging from individual boutiques all the way through to the well known High Street brands. The town has excellent rail, road and air networks and is only a short distance from the nearby town of Poole, the unspoilt countryside of rural Dorset that includes England's first natural World Heritage Site namely the Jurassic Coast and the ancient New Forest. Bournemouth benefits from a rich variety of high quality educational establishments at all levels including Bournemouth University which accommodates over 10,000 students as well as the largest concentration of foreign language schools outside London. Bournemouth is home to a major financial services sector (JPMorgan, Nationwide and Liverpool Victoria among others) as well as many national headquarters including the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Sunseeker International.

Entertainment

The area is renowned for its bustling nightlife with the town centre boasting two cinemas, the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre and Bournemouth International Centre and a wide variety of popular nightclubs, bars and restaurants offering cuisine from around the world. Further out of town, Winton and Charminster offer cosmopolitan living with numerous locally owned restaurants and bars.

Sports

The area is well served with a wide variety of sporting and leisure activities with numerous private fitness clubs, public swimming pools and the popular council run Littledown Centre. With the harbours of Poole and Christchurch being within easy reach all sailing pursuits, including windsurfing and kite surfing, are well catered for. In the near future, Europe's first artificial surf reef is due for completion off of Boscombe beach and this will prove a great bonus to the already popular surfing fraternity. With numerous 9 and 18 hole golf courses, tennis courts and recreation grounds across the conurbation, there should never be a reason to be bored!

Shopping

As well as the town centre with its great range of shops, including three department stores, the recently opened Castlepoint shopping complex is only a few minutes out of town. This development provides a wide selection of store as well as two major supermarkets.

Communications

The rest of the UK is readily accessible from Bournemouth with frequent trains and coaches running to all major cities and towns, London being approximately 100 minutes and Southampton 30 minutes away by train. For travel further afield, the nearby port of Poole offers cross-channel sailings and Bournemouth International Airport offers convenient and affordable flights to numerous UK and worldwide destinations.