Oh I like hills too but our current family situation is too long and complicated to go into here but in a nutshell
Dh works in Oxford, I work in Surrey and we all (DH, Me and DS) live in Surrey.This is causing us all sorts of problems with flexibility of work and when ds starts school (1.5 years time) this will get worse.
Moving to Oxford itself would entail me giving up work and the properties are not so much cheaper that we could do that without quite a lot of financial difficulty.
Thame looks quite nice, not too far from Oxford, and near the M40 to get back to London quickly (where my elderly ailing parents live). We have also visited it occasionally and it always seemed a nice town.
It seems cheaper than Oxford so we could afford for me not to have to work for a while (I'd probably retrain). Dh could reduce his commute from 2-3 hours each way 1-4 times a week to 30 mins a day.
I suppose I picked Thame as a possible place to move for convenience of location more than anything really and it seems to have quite good schools .
On the other hand I like where we live now I have family friends etc and at 43 years old I am reluctant to start all over again where I know no-one.
If we could afford to buy a small house (as opposed to the small, gardenless flat we have now) in this area and me still give up work then we might choose to do that but finances dictate that that is going to be very hard..
Things are complicated by the fact that dh loves his job and would prefer to stay in Oxford. I on the other hand don't love my job (4 days a week) but it provides almost as much income as dh's FT job does but I do like where we live now.
There are so many variables and we need to decide soon really what we want to do as we will need to think about what schools to apply to for ds soom - Aghhh !!