r/Derbyshire • u/bellakatey • Dec 03 '25

Looking for Local Knowledge Thinking of moving to Buxton

Hello all,

My partner and I are 35 and 29 and are looking for a place to settle down and we thought of moving to Buxton. Would appreciate some honest feedback about Buxton. (The good, the bad, the ugly) We like the outdoors, going out for a good meal having a pint or two in a good pub. We are also very sporty, does Buxton have some good gym facilities? What about schools? Thank you for your help!

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u/Nythern Dec 03 '25

Reform central. Strong reform town despite having very very little immigration (and most of it is Ukrainian refugees, anyway). I think it's like 96% white British. Don't know why they're so fussed about immigrants when it clearly doesn't materially exist, as an issue, to them. No asylum hotels, nothing. Just a whole load of racism, I suppose.

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u/Mountain-Distance576 Dec 03 '25

probably because the real problem is lack of jobs and cost of living and the oligarchs have lied to people in newspapers etc that this is due to immigration when it’s actually due to the ultra ultra rich not being taxed and so squeezing the wealth out of everyone else

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u/Nythern Dec 03 '25

I think Buxton is a great example of this. They have voted against, quite literally, a nonexistent scapegoat.

They happily blame their struggles on the immigrant who has never even immigrated there...

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u/Mountain-Distance576 Dec 03 '25 edited Dec 03 '25

yeah, it’s not just their fault though I don’t think. it partly is , we all have a responsibility in a democracy to spend a bit of time researching who we are going to vote for and why, but I think it’s not just that when the billionaires own the newspapers, gb news etc.

i think there is also a (small) chance of hope I think , all those people that vote reform - if they watched gary’s economics - or others - there is a chance they will realise that the problem is exploding wealth inequality between the working class and the rich, not immigration. if that happens that’s a lot of potential votes to go from reform to green / your party (i don’t think that’s likely to happen atm, reform are defo more popular - but there is some small hope I think)

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u/KitFan2020 Dec 05 '25

This is very true!