Moving to cornwall

[lisaevans]

Been with Dp for 10 years, 2 dc. Recently he has had to sell house as ex took him to court, fine as we are all in my rented house. Anyway he has been looking at buying land in cornwall, we holiday there every year with family and love it. He wants to buy land and build log cabins to holiday let and build a log cabin/house for us. i work in care so jobs are available anyway, he has his own business which he wants to give up so we can do this. Timeline of 4-5 years so youngest dc would start senior school there, oldest dc would hopefully be at uni/collage by then. I want to get carried away with the idea but feel like .aybe we would get backlash from locals? i don't know, asking for what other people would do. We would be a good 4 hour drive from family and friends but means if it works we could both work on our land and that would be that.

Yabu- not a good idea
yanbu- go for it- get carried away!!

Looking near St Eval,

I'd go tomorrow if I could. X

@copperoliver feel exactly the same!! But trying to keep sensible head on, extremely hard sat at work, underpaid and under appreciated 🙄 Its really good to get other peoples veiws tho. Mining shafts is something that never crossed my mind, but will now be 1 of the first questions i ask!

Go to sleep, your partner is going to give up his job to do this?

Think it through, go to the area, suss it out.

Sorry if I missed it but what is the source of your income going to be?

@saltycat i would sleep but im at work 😂 yes he wants to give up his business, he feels like if we stay we will be working until we die ( his words) where as if we go work hard we can make a better life for ourselves.

We have money saved, and the sale of the house plus money from the business as the plan will be to lease the property business is on.

This sounds so exciting. I have family in Cornwall and we’re with them here now and considering moving before littlest starts secondary. Your idea sounds great I’d love to be able to do something like that!

The council can give "pre-application advice" so once you've found lasnd you think may be suitable, you can establish if planning permission is out of the question before you commit to anything.

Yes the local parish councils can be oppositional to newcomers and property developments. I've lived 10 years in one particular visillage and it took them 10 years to secure a part of waste ground to build on it. Frankly I preferred the wasteground as a forest than a bunch of newbuilds but it wasn't my land and I didn't contest it. I would suggest getting friendly with a local council group and going to their meetings. Where I am one or two families with all the major holdings are on the council and they would for sure be wary of any development that threatened their assets or the general character of the village.

It could be hard on your youngest starting in a new school there when the other children would have known each other all their lives. Do they usually make friends quickly?