Some of the happiest and most desirable places to live in the Black Country and neighboring cities

From market towns, famous football clubs to sprawling urban neighborhoods designed around beautiful Victorian parks, theme parks to village communities, there are plenty of desirable places to call home.

It can be a daunting decision to choose the right place to settle down, so we asked our proud readers where they think the best places to live are.

Here’s what they said:

Wolverhampton is famous for many things, including Wolverhampton Wanderers, breweries, the birthplace of singer Beverley Knight and the Sunbeam car – with its trade, nightlife, theaters and concert venues, restaurants alongside leafy neighbourhoods. Among them, Nick Ajimal says: “Tettenhall is simply beautiful and with easy access to amenities and countryside.”

Amolak Singh Sunnerd says, “I’m in Penn, I really like it. I call him “Leafy Penn”. There are very nice places to walk.”

Sue John Steadman says: “Any area in the Black Country. All people are brilliant and take care of each other. I love my Wednesbury and Sedgley. Lower Gornal is lovely too. A place is what you make it.”

Rudolf Schubert says: “Sitting in the Trumpet Pub in Bilston with a Holden’s Special and listening to Slade music when I’m in England.”

Bigg Chris says: “The leafy parts of Bilston are nice.”

Barbara Jopling says: “Walsall Arboretum, I know you can’t live there but it’s lovely to have it here in Walsall – I go and watch the Park Run every Saturday morning, it’s a lovely atmosphere.”

Micah Horton says: “Aldridge! It’s awesome here. Stonnall is cute too.”

Malcolm Harris says: “It never ceases to amaze me how some of us draw the map of the Black Country. I love visiting Bridgnorth but the Black Country it is.

“I also spent and loved my teenage years in Wollaston, but it is similarly outside my understanding of the Black Country proper.”

Jack Sparra says: “Willenhall has great people, good pubs, nice places to eat and… me.”

Paul Gawdan says: “Upper Gornal is a great place. Nicest people ever and a good place to live. We moved here from Stourbridge a few years ago and love the place.”

John Benton says, “Sunny Coseley on the Cut. It’s bostin’, yeah?”

Stephen Whitehouse says: “The Tipton Green area with the Tipton Slasher Statue near Tipton cut, you can stand there and see Dudley Castle up there, the real Black Country.”

Cornelius Macka says: “Wall Heath by far. I like to visit there.”

Paul Garner says: “Happy where we are. Upper Woodsetton’.

In Staffordshire you can choose from beautiful villages, market towns and theme park attractions, with Alton Towers and Drayton Manor Park the most famous sites. Almost all of the Black Country was once part of this county before the creation of the West Midlands in 1974.

Among its areas Cannock Chase District, a former mining community, is known for its woodland of outstanding natural beauty and is among the jewels of the West Midlands and home to the Forest Live music festival. It is popular with commuters.

One reader says: “Come to Cannock/Hednesford. We have Cannock Chase Forest which covers over 20 miles. It’s beautiful and green everywhere and only 15 minutes from Willenhall, it’s like another country!”

Yvonne Maybury, from Wombourne, says: “There are a lot of not-so-nice places, so we need to appreciate what we have and enjoy it where we live. Treat everyone with kindness and care and you’re done. Happiness xxxx”.

The Clent Hills on the Stourbridge border with Worcestershire are also mentioned.

Emma Luanne says, “It’s on the edge…..Clent.”

Dawn Harper adds: “Customer! It’s my favorite place on the planet.”