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From Surrey to Norwich

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Emmaxh · 03/12/2025 13:28

Hello everyone, i am really desperate for all your honest opinion's about moving from Surrey to Norwich.
we are family of 4 ( 2 boys 5 & 1 years old )
Husband work from home and i work part time on retail field.
my main reasons to move to Norwich:
1- Affordable rent then if everything goes well we will buy a house 🤞
2- I wanna feel stable on a place not to keep moving, i wanna belong to one place and start feel that i will continue living my life here.
3- i like the vibe, history and idea that its quieter than surrey as well its near a seaside but not sure when some people say its isolated.
4- i am aware that Norwich is away from lots of places but we been living in surrey for 4 years and didn't go much only our surrounding areas. We came and visited Norwich city centre and we really liked it.

My concerns:
•-to find good primary and secondary school around the city centre.
•- activities for kids and sports clubs.
•- Job opportunities.
•- Are you really gonna feel that you are isolate ( trapped ) especially for london people who moves here.
•- Is it suitable for long term settlement for a family with young kids.

OP posts:
Flowerfairy13 · 03/12/2025 14:19

Norwich is great and is are lots to do with kids. Lots of great schools but you should visit them and decide, then that will influence where you want to live.

Job opportunities are much less and getting out of Norfolk takes some time. So we don't leave that often. Depends how much you will need to be driving around the country.

The train is convenient (but expensive) to London and Cambridge

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