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[Stephen99]

are we mad to consider moving the family to a little fishing village on the lleyn peninsula (north west wales)?

there's no reason other than we fancy it.

nippers are 6, 4 and 5 months.

i'd have to travel a bit more for work, but can work from home sometimes. wife not working atm anyway, and considers herself to be sahm now really.

its a welsh speaking area...presumably the children will pick it up faster than we will and will be fine.

its only 2 hours from friends and family here, so not too bad on that front.

i dunno...outdoor country life, beaches, general pleasantness...what could possibly go wrong?! hee hee

any thoughts?

Its not aqgood enough reason IMO.
Depends where you live now and current lifestyle - urban/suburban - hectic social life etc...
not being able to make yourself understod constantly, weill lose its quaintness after about 25 seconds also

people do speak english there, dingbat!

however, its a bit rude not to make any effort at all...

anyway, its not quaint...just lovely.

wife and i were making plans this morning on a lovely walk in the park...

suburbs now...v nice life, pleasant smi in leafy area great garden.....booring!

anyway, we could move after a spell, couldn;'t we? its only money.

hope the nippers aren's too disrupted of course...but then again, perahps they'll be inspired to be poets, or architects, or writers...or something.

we are a bit od...but u cant really tell if u met us in the street...x

come on, any thoughts????

i just dont want to be on my deathbed and say that i lived in a pleasant semi in the suburbs all my life.

bump x

No practical advice but often think you generally regret the things you don't do, rather than the ones you do iyswim... If its a dream and you don't do it, you may spend years wondering "what if" ? It seems your dc's are at a good age (not too settled at school etc.). Why not ?

It sounds lovely but do you know the reception new people to the area are likely to get there ? I think it can often be hard to integrate yourself into a small community and if you have the added hurdle of language to over come then I would be very cautious.

Totally understand why you want to make the move but I would think about this very carefully and make sure you know exactly what you are letting yourself in for. Where I live is a fairly small community but one where a fair number of people have moved in from outside the area and are made very welcome so the move here was pretty easy.

Give it a try!
The place sounds idyllic.
And if it isn't - you're allowed to move!

hey thanks for all these thoughts....am investigating as we speak.

tbh, i think we'd be ok there...we do have vague connections with a respected villager there...and its a fairly well healed place where we'd move...another house just come on today actually....rumours of our arrival spaking an exodus already!

main thoughts atm are the house cost..its a holiday home that hasn't been toughed for decades and needs a lot of work..yet he wants stupid money for it...100k too much me thinks. could we be arsed with extension/refurb/updating?

but its only just on the market so he's not going to listen to 20/30% reductions for a while...gives me time to investigate and plan....mind you, in the meantime we've spotted a couple of nice places just outside bath where we were on the verge of moving to a couple of years ago until my wife's dad became il...he's ok now, so we could move...but where???!!!!

and you're right humph, you are allowed to move....jus the 20k moving costs to stump up each time!

I guess if you know someone there that's a big plus, it does sound gorgeous there.

We live in Dorset now and I know that I could never go back to a big city now, I love it down here and am so pleased that we did make the move.

Could you maybe try renting rather than buying at first to test it out and that way you would be in a strong position when making offers ?

ihad the renting thought this very afternoon...would be nice to spend the summer there...except our eldest is at school

i know the area quite well...been going there on and off for 30 odd years...just fancy it, might be really nice...even for just 2/3/4/5 years or whatever...its just the education thing....i'm quite conservative and think that school and stability are paramount in a child's life and with it friends etc, but perhaps moving about might broaden their eperience and knowledge in other ways...i don't want to let them down, but staying in suburbia might be just as stifling....

maybe i read too much into things...or maybe not!

dunno, but exciting making plans...wife equally so. nice