Thinking of leaving the rat race and moving to Devon or cornwall.

Top idea. I assuming you're in London? I only lasted a year before moving back north and so much less stress. Know plenty of people made their cash and moved out with their property riches.

If you have enough to live on and it won't affect your social life much then a great choice.

guess it depends were you move from and too,

im outside London, bucks.

Why do you think thry are boring?

cheers for replies any perspective helps cheers.

Bucks ... rat race 

There's another good reason not to move...every person you see is walking a bloody dog.

If you rely on the internet make sure to check the coverage wherever you decide to live,the service is extremely patchy in the West country

I fancied the south west years ago. Too expensive now.

Depends on what makes you happy. I think it's people not places. Give me people over location any day.

Yeah I bet when another family of White Flight arrive from Essex the locals in the West Country are over joyed.

London is a place stuck in a time-warp. I took a walk north from Clapham Junction to Battersea one Sunday afternoon last summer, and it was like walking through the Slough of the 1970s in which I grew up: mean, decaying, unloved and relentlessly bland.

The people on the streets were unhappy immigrants, shuffling past the burger bars and convenience stores, heads down and without a glimmer of purpose or joy. As a second-generation immigrant, I should recognize the type - it was like looking at my own father and his colleagues 40 years ago, who'd found themselves consigned to a colourless dump.

Hell, the place even voted to stay in the Common Market - how backward, fearful and 1970s is that!

Anyone moving from there to the rural West Country, where every day your environment changes, and where people are confident, welcoming and innovative, is in for a big shock. Particularly if you're fearful of a life where you can't be sure what the next day might bring (basically, the sort of person who finds dogs a nuisance).

Average age of those moving to the West Country?  50+ I'd guess.  Average age of those moving to London from other parts of the UK early to mid 20's.  Age greatly affects how people view the world.  Where one sees threats the other sees opportunity.

Average age of Chitter Chatters?  50+ I'd guess.

Silly sod

stupid boy the baron , thinks you can change the people in a city and the city won’t change

Precisely lfc1971,
There's an old saying ''morons breed morons.''

So if we fill our cities with certain kinds of people who hold very different standards to the people who have been living there for decades.
It shouldn't come as any surprise if they and their kids go on to be less than ideal citizens compared to their predecessors.

Like the eighth little ****** boy, I did stay in Devon. It's a lovely place, CM.

As an aside lads, myself and Mrs Workrider heading to Liskard for a weeks holiday at end of this month, any advice on things to do...Tia..

Jack Hacksaw: It's funny, isn't it? When you read references to second-generation immigrants, you have to do a double-take before you realize that it's you yourself who's being discussed.

It was never an issue until recently. All my life people would see my surname and ask brightly, "Is that Polish?" (it's not, as it happens; sometimes I'd put them right and point out it's Ukrainian). Either way, you were recognized as an ancestor of that generation of refugees who came here after the War and raised families to grow up and feel British, while they themselves tried as hard as they could to fit in with the British way of life. Sure, they passed on the language and the customs to their offspring, but that was secondary to the pride they felt in the fact they were raising British families.

The Deerhunter illustrates that life beautifully from an American point of view.

Then the bloody EU ruined everything for us. Suddenly far too many were given the ability to come here not to become proud British citizens, but to game Gordon Brown's moronic Tax Credits, and the free healthcare and the free schooling on offer, and undercut the local labour market. Three or four years of living in lousy conditions and you could return home, set up for life. Meanwhile, the locals had no option but to watch their own living standards decline in order to compete.

And the result for people like me? It's no longer a bright and cheerful "Is that Polish?" from the receptionist at the GP. Instead it's a suspicious and resentful one. All thanks to the sodding Londoners and to big business and their addiction to exploiting cheap labour.

That’s a bit like London , it’s ok to visit

And it’s lovely taking the train back home again.

Good post by screaming, we have attracted people who simply seek to abuse our system.

White Flight