Would you want peace and quiet? Coast? Busy town?
North, South?
I am particularly interested in places which are quiet, but with shops, vets etc. but if you have any better suggestions please go ahead and suggest.
No schools needed - unlike most of the where shall I live threads on here.
(I am not actually retiring this week but wishful thinking and looking ahead with hope, and South would be easier and closer to family).
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If you retired this week where would you move to in the UK (South maybe).
MonumentalLentil · 16/03/2023 11:36
Spambod · 17/03/2023 17:10
Second Lewes if you have tons of cash it’s very well situated and just lovely but my god the prices.
Turmerictolly · 17/03/2023 12:14
Lewes - lots going on, vets, can walk on to the South Downs from the golf club, frequent buses to Brighton, Eastbourne and Tunbridge Wells and good shops. Not cheap though.
Bluevelvetsofa · 24/05/2023 13:29
I’d probably do what I did, or somewhere near, which is West Sussex. We have good transport links, so can get to London, Southampton, Brighton, relatively easily. A few miles from Chichester, with museum, theatre and shops, though not as many as there were. South Downs on the doorstep, Goodwood, Weald and Downland museum, Arundel, Amberley, all within a short drive.
SweetBirdsong · 29/05/2023 00:22
@GinIronic
Stay where you are when you retire. Why would you want somewhere new? If you hate where you live - move now whilst you’re still young enough to enjoy it.
I don't get people moving when they retire either. As a few people have said, stay with your support network and near everyone you know. Obviously if you have no-one and very little support network, then I guess that changes things a bit. But surely people have a few friends, and a familiar GP, and dentist, and neighbours they know etc.
I never 'get' people swanning off to Spain and France etc, or even further away. Actually out of the country. Rarely see their (adult) children, rarely see their grandchildren (grandchildren don't even know them!) and leave their friends behind, and everything they know. They move to somewhere strange and faraway at a time when they need those closest to them - (and the people closest to them need them too.) I don't get it at all.
I know several couples who moved to Barmouth (from Staffordshire/ Shropshire/ West Midlands area,) and they have regretted it, as it's such a ball-ache to travel to see people in Wolverhampton and Birmingham and Stafford and Cannock. Takes 3 hours sometimes. They are also 2 hours from a normal hospital (with an A & E department.) Came as a shock to them when they first needed a hospital.
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