Hi All,
I'm after some advice and or experience from others who have moved to Cornwall or born and bred Cornwallers Cornish! (My bad! 😬🫣!
Me & DH have been together for 15 years and nearly 13 years ago we very nearly made the jump to move to Cornwall. We absolutely adored everything about Cornwall. But 22 year old me, allowed my parents selfish views to make me question our dream to move and we never did!😟
We also always knew we wanted children and basically i was guilted into not leaving. And because of this, I convinced myself that staying would be essential for any prospective children to have a relationship with my family and be near by!
Fast forward to now, we have 3 boys under 7 and over the last year to 18 months, I've slowly come to the realisation that actually the reason we stayed (family support) is flakey at best and I we feel very let down at their lack of interest in us or our children.
My lovely sister is the only consistent "support" we have and if I'm honest she's the only reason I feel tethered to where we live now.
During this period of realisation, the urge to escape and follow our dream has got more evident and I've finally come to terms with the fact that it is something we really do want and would benefit us and it's time to put our "wants" over everyone else's, before it's too late and our DS's get older and don't want to move!
As my sister is emotionally our only anchor to where we live now, we've spoken to her about our potential plan to move and she is very much thrilled at the prospect of our exciting new future and the idea of free holidays for her & her children 😅!
So, I'm essentially here asking for advice on locations and considerations that we may not have thought of!
We want to move somewhere coastal-ish.... no more than 15-20 min drive away, that has a community we can hopefully integrate into and be a part of, as we don't know anyone there! We like the N/W coast (roughly Redruth up to Bude).
However, super touristy, busy places in the summer aren't really our thing, we tend to actively seek secret gems when we visit, but easy enough access to them if we wanted to go to places like this would be nice. We'd much prefer to find the quiet places away from the summer busyness where we can explore with the kids and dog (we love the ourdoors).
Due to having young kids, we do want some amenities near by and good schools, but we're not interested in big city vibes.
My husband is a remote worker with the view that he only has to go the office on occasions and I'm a wedding florist, so we need to be somewhere that I can access wedding venues and locations for weddings up to an hours drive away give or take!
(Wow! That's a right shopping list! 😅)
Any thoughts, advice or considerations for us to consider would be muchly appreciated!
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