Anyone live in Falmouth?

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My friend has just been on the phone from America (she's British) telling me that her DH has been offered a job in Falmouth. Anyone know anything about the area. Is it a good place to bring up kids? She's got two kids under five. Her DH isn't sure about moving but she's cracking up to get back to blighty!! Anyone got any positive vibes about Falmouth?

anyone?

close, about 25 miles away - and wow, I would bite their hand off! House prices are massively high (or at least they are for me) and the whole area has a lovely, cornish upperclass seasidey feel to it
Very little crime, not much in the way of entertainment but beautiful countryside.
Falmouth in one word is....genteel

having said that I'm sure they are not so nice bits, but when I visit or see it on the news it always look like a wonderful place to live

My brother is 10 miles down the road and has brought kids up there. It's a gorgeous part of the world, with good - though a bit sleepy - local schools. Falmouth is a nice town with plenty going on if you like boats, and there are some great villages on the Lizard nearby if she prefers small village life. Agree that entertainment is limited but if you have kids, the quality of life - being able to get to the beach each day after school for 5 months of the year, for example - seems fairly amazing to us.

Where abouts are you MATT?

I'm in Wadebridge, which is just as sleepy but less boaty - hence much less expensive!
Totally agree about the good but sleepy local schooling, my parents both teach here and it's all very bucolic.
Not sure what sophisticated city types would make of it though - my mum has just called to tell me that one of her kids has just drawn Jesus on a donkey, when asked where they were headed she said "Newquay?"

I woul LOVE to live in Falmouth.

lol MATT! I used to teach in rural Norfolk years ago and we had some priceless kids too. Sometimes it's rather wonderful not to be too touched by what is going on in the rest of the world.

i would love to live in Falmouth too. St Mawes is a boat ride away and is one of the most beautiful places i know.

notsotired - i went to school with a lad who couldn't name colours, but would name the corresponding tractor make
i.e green - john deer
red - massey ferguson
blue - ford
Some of the little villages round here are like the Land That Time Forgot!

We used to teach French to one lower set using a very visual system - learn a set of words and then draw a picture of one and label it. One lad would only draw tractors, and had a fantastic French book full of absolutely identical pictures of tractors with various objects attached: if we were doing animals then there would be a tractor with a cat in it. If we were doing school, then it would be a tractor at school etc. The tractors were always very large, the additional object minute. His mate could only draw trucks, so had a similar book.

Great days