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?

[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.

[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.

[Hangingover]

I moved here in November from London. Love it.

[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!!

[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.

[VestaTilley]

*is actually

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Gilead]

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

[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?

[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.