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.

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,

I usually go to Devon once a year for a week or so, nice enough place for a quiet holiday but a week is more than enough , those places are deadly boring if you're used to living in London.

im outside London, bucks.

Why do you think thry are boring?

cheers for replies any perspective helps cheers.

I love Devon and Cornwall but living there not so sure because after a while the beautiful scenery just becomes the norm and there ain't much to do. I lived in the Lake District, similar thing.

Bucks ... rat race 

An ex moved to Tavistock 3 years ago, she sold her house in Streatham, South London clearing £700K after paying off what was owed and fees.
She bought a 3 bedroom bungalow with a big garden on 3 split levels just outside the town centre for £310K and room to build on it, a conservatory, garage etc. So that is quite a lifestyle change and she has got a nice bit of cash to fall back on, works from home, walks her dogs on Dartmoor and has absolutely has no regrets whatsoever.

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

Moving from Essex to Devon next week Callisto.House went on the market in Feb so its taken 7 long months to complete. Solicitors fees, Estate agent fees,  removal fees, plus stamp duty came to just shy of 12k.With the money we've got for our house against what we have bought in Devon their is a tidy profit to kit out the new drum and still have enough left over for a cream tea and a pint of County best.

PS..My advice is to go with a good high st estate agent.We went the internet route to begin with and burnt £900

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

All this uncontrolled immigration will result in Cornxit.

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.

well that means the 20 million immigrants in London win hands down,especialy the 19 million walking around with their heads down ignoring you

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

I am digging my trench even deeper now.

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).

The guy on Andrew in Sweden thread would be the best to ask..stays in Cornwall. .LAMPUS.     he's a millionaire

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.

everything changes , including London
That’s the difference nothing to do with age or perception , just reality

Silly sod

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

Probably correct Baron.... just a smidge above your IQ judging by the $hit you post on here

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

now if you bring millions of not very intelligent people from not very intelligent parts of the world and they come to live in London in their millions
Then it’s only a matter of time before London starts to resemble the ****holes in those other parts of the world

that’s inevitable

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.

After reading screaming's post, I have just realised that I am a second-generation immigrant!

Might look more kindly towards today's immigrants now.

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

It is not so inexpensive as one might imagine, however. Decent homes around here are all well over £1m.

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..

do you want kirstie & phils mobile ?

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.

A lot of it is what your use to. We moved to Torquay from Bristol in 1995 - stayed nearly 5 years and moved back. We had been to Torquay lots of times for holidays/weekends/day trips, but going there for a holiday and living there 12 months of the year was totally different. Beautiful place for a break, but not the same living there all the time, might suit some, we liked it but after the first year we began to realise it was not like we expected it to be.

And you moving to Devon or Cornwall could be the same (?) Going somewhere for a holiday and living there all the time is totally different.

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

Ideal to live somewhere like Eastbourne an hour and a half by train from London

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

When you step onto the platform and even if it is raining on the cold grey wet streets there is something consoling and dreamy about Eastbourne

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

Injera    10 Sep 18 17:46 
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.

100% agree with you Injera which was one of the reasons we decideded to reallocate to the SW.
Essex/London are NOW not very nice places to live or spend time in.

White Flight

Callisto - If possible, I would recommend keeping your current house and renting down there for a year to see how you like it.

As mentioned previously, visiting somewhere for a week is completely different to the day to day reality of living there. I'm not saying you won't like it but it will probably be different to what you imagined.

Again baron...100% spot on.

Indeed, round 2 is definitely on round here, God help those who are stuck in the ever widening ghettos.

Tell Dell - Good to see another Bristol dweller on here

gin that is a fantastic idea id not thought about.
Rent this place out and rent there for a year.

Ah, but how long can Cornwall hold out? - after that it's the sea and the  Scilly Isles

Thinking about emigrating to Somalia.

Nice climate and I reckon it must be fairly sparsely populated by now.

Renting your place out is not a good idea.Come back after a year to find carnage or worse still squatters encamped..whichever way you look at it its agro ( speaking of a friends experience btw)

The funny thing is that by moving to the countryside the white flight brigade inflate the property market pricing out the locals and forcing them to move away..oh the irony.

white flight brigade yourself .. too old for the carnival.. where theres never any trouble iyo ..... P R I C K

wouldn't like to live near aggressive, knuckle-draggers such as woundupknee

any sensitive person would agree with woundedknee

twizzle - agreed. But I meant close friends/family. Being with them (nearly) anywhere is prefereable to a new location. Good company with lots of laughter triumphs a nice pad.

I love the SW. Visited Lulworth in Dorset for the first time this year. Wow.. England at her finest.
Thatched cottages, coves, cliffs, beaches and cream teas.

Still nostalgic for life behind your antifaschistischer Schutzwall, DIE LINKE? No aggressive knuckle-dragging habits among your party leaders back when they were running East Germany?

Who is more welcome, a family of the white flight brigade from Basildon arriving in a country village or a family of Somalis arriving in Basildon. 

Not much in it I'd say.

he doesn’t like to be reminded about that

Can you imagine , the ***** in E Germany stole a family friends summer house , just the wrong  side of the border
They came to England , the father refused to speak  German ever again
quite right

No difference, TheBaron. If either family obeys the law and respects the way of life of the people into whose neighbourhood they've moved, they're welcome.

everywhere must take care of itself so that everyone can be free and easy everywhere

who  could deny that

You been sniffin glue again?

Let the baron go to Somalia if he wants to live with Somalis ,
that seems to me to be a good arrangement

he won’t be missed

Sep 12, 2018 -- 5:32PM, DIE LINKE wrote:

wouldn't like to live near aggressive, knuckle-draggers such as woundupknee

dont come to SE London then.. Blair

the problem with a lot of folk from Essex is the fact they're so 


((((( LOUD )))))

I would say that most arriving in rural Devon would embrace the quiet life  surely wherever they're from ?    a troublesome family  would be heading to a similar situation on a rough  estate in Plymouth (given the choice of address)

rough families wouldn't like life in a quiet village