To just say F it and move to Cornwall and homeschool my Dc

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Or find a lovely little village school and spend our days living a slow, traditional life

It’s my dream

Has anyone got this, am I being realistic?

Well, try living in Notting Hill on a sunny weekend and then you have not only crammed pavements but hordes of people posing, and even changing outfits to pose some more, on your front steps. But it's the price we pay to live somewhere others want to visit and it's, you know, good for the economy, so we deal with it.

Was going to ask exactly the same question! It’s all very well us giving you advice about Cornwall but what are we comparing it to? Where are you now?

Many businesses shut in the winter, particularly cafes and restaurants, when the tourists have gone home.
Exeter is a long drive away, even from the closest parts of Cornwall.
The weather in Cornwall is grim and damp - even in the summer.
You can't earn much down there.
Property is relatively expensive.
Even in other more accessible parts of the country the same problems arise, Cornwall is just multiplied.
Your children may enjoy parts of their childhoods - assuming that they are not home-schooled and so can make friends - but they may well enjoy it less when they are teenagers and older. Many children can't wait to get away. My husband was brought up in Devon (almost in Cornwall) and hated it, he left to go to college in Scotland to get as far away as possible as quickly as he could.

Hi OP,

We have this to some degree, although we're not in Cornwall.
We live in a lovely village with a fantastic school and great community.
We're on the edge of a city, so it only takes 15 minutes to get to the city centre and we have excellent transport links, which was really important for us.
Our village is mainly retirees and young families, very safe and we have a lot of people who have moved to live here from bigger cities, especially London.

We feel very lucky and it's amazing for DC. I wouldn't necessarily describe it as slow though. DH and I both have full on jobs and we have DC activities and homework, so we still do the same juggle that parents in big cities will also be doing.

I would say go for it, but think really carefully about what you want. For us it was a great school, good transport links and friendly community. Everything else was a nice to have.