Our house has gone on sale and we had a discussion about what we want from the next. We currently live rurally, which we like, but have a toddler so for convenience we’d like to be a little closer to certain stuff - shop, playground, pub. And a bit more accessible to town, as where we now live no taxis want to come so going out for a meal for example is not very easy and we have to decide which one gets to drink the wine and which one drives.
We are currently 15-20 minutes from Worcester, which is a town we like. My SIL lives in Ironbridge and it would be nice to be closer to them. Our jobs are tied to where we live now so when we move we need new ones so there’s no commute to consider - I’m a bookkeeper and my husband plans to start his own consultancy working from home.
Does anyone know of a cute village somewhere between Worcester and Ironbridge with a shop, playground and a nice pub, ideally also a good school and reasonable distance from a bigger town with nice restaurants? All the ones in our immediate surroundings that we drive through regularly only have one or two out of three.