to have realised I have no life and want to move to cornwall after lockdown

[ruledbynine]

I’m thinking if I have no life then I might as well have no life somewhere beautiful? Has anyone made the move and made it work?

[SplendidSuns1000]

I moved from a suburb next to a big city to a farmhouse in the countryside not too far from the coast. Couldn't be any happier. Just expect tourists if you're near a touristy area and consider living slightly further away from the main tourist hub. If you're planning on living somewhere touristy, try to find a home you love a little further away so you don't feel you're trapped in a shit house just because it's right on a beach.

[LunaNorth]

@JesusAteMyHamster

I honestly wouldn't....... Tourist, seaside towns often have huge pockets of deprivation running alongside it. Especially places like Cornwall.

The area I live is a bit of a hidden gem, we're surrounded by miles of coastline and countryside and I absolutely love it. If I want to take my dc to see the seal colony or dolphins up close I can pay the local ferryman a tenner each (( free for kids under 5)) and we'll be guaranteed to see them. There's a big push by our local MP to get it recognised as a tourist destination and I don't know anyone who's for it. We got a taste of it over the summer last year and it was horrific. I can honestly see why locals become hostile towards outsiders and there's no way I'd want to move to such a place. My advice would be to look for the hard to find places, that aren't tourist spots. There's plenty of them.

Would you mind pm’ing me with whereabouts you are, please, @JesusAteMyHamster?

[Gilead]

I went North, high up on the Pennines. Beautiful, friendly and have not regretted it for a second.

[PanamaPattie]

If you have no life now and move to Cornwall - you will have the same life on a zero hours contract, driving grey rain, damp and mould in every corner and total gridlock with all the staycationers.

[gardenbird48]

I wouldn’t recommend it - heaving with rude emmets all summer, Cwll council has been taken over by an undemocratic dictatorship and the nationalists are trying to take over. We go for our holidays because DH likes it and I visit my family (we’re an old Cornish family) but it makes me sad to see how it has been built up and overdeveloped.

[Dee2997]

I’m Cornish, I love it. It’s beautiful and I’m proud to call it my home. Couldn’t imagine being anywhere else. Despite what people say Cornwall is generally welcoming - we just get a little upset that we can’t afford to live where we are from! House and rent prices are so high compared to what most of us earn! It sucks!

Job opportunities and wages are low though.

[VestaTilley]

*is actually

[VestaTilley]

Do you have a job? House to sell? Friends down there?

Cornwall has very expensive properties, but I’d actually very poor and socially deprived- loads of poverty in the middle of the county, and lots of the villages are now just full of second home owners so empty with little community a lot of the time.

Unless you’re going to live in one of the bigger towns near the coast you might struggle for friends and company, plus the weather isn’t glorious all year round- and it’s a LONG drive from the rest of the U.K.

[Eliza72]

@LampsOn ha ha being stuck on the ringroad reminds me of a time I went to Coventry and didnt know the ringroad etiquette at all🤣 streeeeeeesss!!

[Hangingover]

I moved here in November from London. Love it.

[ShutUpAlex]

What’s your budget? I live in the shitty part of Cornwall and house prices are still quite high here. We’re leaving cornwall in a month. If I had a choice I’d live in the Boscastle/Tintagel end of Cornwall. It’s lovely up there.

[JesusAteMyHamster]

I honestly wouldn't....... Tourist, seaside towns often have huge pockets of deprivation running alongside it. Especially places like Cornwall.

The area I live is a bit of a hidden gem, we're surrounded by miles of coastline and countryside and I absolutely love it. If I want to take my dc to see the seal colony or dolphins up close I can pay the local ferryman a tenner each (( free for kids under 5)) and we'll be guaranteed to see them. There's a big push by our local MP to get it recognised as a tourist destination and I don't know anyone who's for it. We got a taste of it over the summer last year and it was horrific. I can honestly see why locals become hostile towards outsiders and there's no way I'd want to move to such a place. My advice would be to look for the hard to find places, that aren't tourist spots. There's plenty of them.

[OnlyHerefortheBiscuits]

You said in your opening post that you 'have no life' , OP which is really stark!

Is it this sentiment that prompted the thought of moving to Cornwall? Can you expand on why you feel you have no life where you are now?

What you feel is stopping you having a life now In your current location and what you feel Cornwall (or any move) will provide you?

No need to come back and tell all if you don't want but Big decisions = LOTS of thinking. I'm not saying you haven't done the thinking hard bit..but...just make sure you have! Good luck x

[ancientgran]

I live in Devon, moved here about 25 years ago. I hate it but we got stuck as kids settled in school, my job etc. Kids all gone, like almost all do as not great job opportunities here and worse in Cornwall. I'm desperate to leave, DH is disabled and won't move.

I want to live in a big city, I want facilities, culture, family. I've seen enough of beaches.

[DontTouchMyHairISwear]

IMO living somewhere where people are kind, friendly, and welcoming makes a big difference to your overall happiness

Every where you go you'll find some people who are those things and some who are not. It's not specific to any place.

[Nenevalleykayaker]

@TheNorthWind I guess you’re right but it’s an honest account so I have to stand by It.

I have a lot of respect for Cornish natives, so my heart goes out to them and the love/hate relationship with tourists and relocaters moving in.

Anyway OP, if you think Cornwall’s beaches are the best in the country you haven’t been to Dorset or Scotland yet !

The only Zen you’ll find on the top of the mountain is the Zen you take up there with you

[MrsBotibolsCruise]

IMO living somewhere where people are kind, friendly, and welcoming makes a big difference to your overall happiness. I am an outsider somewhere most people (everyone) would agree is a pretty cacky place to live.

Whenever I have an existential crisis about it, it only takes one friendly encounter in the street or supermarket or school gates to make me feel better. It’s a lovely community to be part of. I couldn’t live somewhere beautiful like Cornwall to be sneered at by the posher outsiders or completely rejected by the locals!

[Cocomarine]

@TheNorthWind you made me giggle! I’m Cornish but it’s a long time since I’ve lived there. Jobs, you know... (and not wanting to take an extra 2 days leave to go anywhere further than Bristol 🤣)

@ruledbynine just remember that you take yourself with you wherever you go. I miss the beach like crazy, but I don’t have “no life” where I live now, inland. Address why you haven’t made a life before you move.

You’ve just posted glowingly about Cornwall and said you know it well. So think about why you started this thread. If you’re that set, why do you need to ask AIBU?

[DynamoKev]

There is nowhere in the UK with better beaches?
Cough - Antrim Coast. Better and less crowded (IMHO of course).

[poppycat10]

I wouldn't move to Cornwall, I'd go somewhere where the locals are friendly and the house prices are low so I can have a decent quality of life.

[DynamoKev]

@Whatafabulousday

I don't get the obsession with Cornwall tbh, it's like no-where else exists?

Me too. As soon anyone mentions a UK holiday anywhere in the media its instantly Cornwall.

I'm not going back after being abused as "fukin emmetts" as an ordinary family just walking along minding our own business.

[DontTouchMyHairISwear]

If you don't have a life where you are you aren't going to suddenly acquire one by moving to Cornwall.

[NoMackerelInSwindon]

Well yes, we are an island in the temperate Atlantic and it is wetter in the West than the East. I thought everybody knew that.

[DipSwimSwoosh]

I love Cornwall and it is home to me. It is beautiful and I miss it.
But a pp who said it is always warmer than the rest of the UK is wrong. It sticks out to the west and is much milder and wetter. Summers in the SE are warmer, winters are brighter.
Cornish winters (and much of Summer) are grey grey grey and damp. I used to get SAD there but not elsewhere. It's the endless grey.
I might move back one day, but there are definitely more days of clear skies in the East than the West, and that's tough.

[HeronLanyon]

Just read your update op. My replies were written without knowing you knew Cornwall well. Your first was absolutely silent on that ! I wrote a bit in the dark. If you know it well then you’ll be familiar with some things on this post - of all sorts.
I’ve known a lot of people move ti Cornwall and find the winters a shock. They’ve moved because of the better weather.
Where I know very well people discuss how many winters they they newcomers will stand. Three winters and they’re fine type experience.