| country or coast. 20:15 - Jul 19 with 3745 views | qpr_1968 |
3 years time, retiring, moving, whats best in your opinion.
me, country, mrs, coast. |  |
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| country or coast. on 20:26 - Jul 19 with 2681 views | Devon_4_England |
Go country near the sea to keep everyone happy.
Good luck |  | | |
| country or coast. on 20:28 - Jul 19 with 2664 views | loftboy |
| country or coast. on 20:26 - Jul 19 by Devon_4_England |
Go country near the sea to keep everyone happy.
Good luck |
I’m a 5 minute slow walk from the beach, on a day like today it’s a godsend, also plenty of villages and small towns nearby for the country pub and decent restaurant vibe. |  |
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| country or coast. on 20:33 - Jul 19 with 2651 views | qpr_1968 |
| country or coast. on 20:26 - Jul 19 by Devon_4_England |
Go country near the sea to keep everyone happy.
Good luck |
sound advice.. | |
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| country or coast. on 20:34 - Jul 19 with 2646 views | Tonto |
Mountains every time. Lakes and Mountains a binus. Love Como, Garda etc. Or Lake District |  |
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| country or coast. on 20:34 - Jul 19 with 2644 views | johann28 |
The Sea the Sea. You'll never regret it. |  | | |
| country or coast. on 20:39 - Jul 19 with 2633 views | qpr_1968 |
thanks for the early responses, but i take that most of you fellow r's were local.
ireland is'nt out the question.....mrs 1968 is irish.
do everyone of you that has relocated regret your move.
hopefully 100% no. | |
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| country or coast. on 20:45 - Jul 19 with 2612 views | Boston |
For all the crap that comes with it, I'm still a city type of bloke. Love visiting places, but at the end of the day prefer the services / amenities, a large urban area provides. | |
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| country or coast. on 20:47 - Jul 19 with 2601 views | qpr_1968 |
| country or coast. on 20:45 - Jul 19 by Boston |
For all the crap that comes with it, I'm still a city type of bloke. Love visiting places, but at the end of the day prefer the services / amenities, a large urban area provides. |
cheers boston. | |
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| country or coast. on 20:50 - Jul 19 with 2588 views | hantssi |
| country or coast. on 20:45 - Jul 19 by Boston |
For all the crap that comes with it, I'm still a city type of bloke. Love visiting places, but at the end of the day prefer the services / amenities, a large urban area provides. |
Me too, I live in the ultimate suburb but would move to a city in a heartbeat.
Love The Lakes, Snowdonia, Cornwall etc but for me these are places to visit not to live. | | | |
| country or coast. on 20:56 - Jul 19 with 2563 views | BrianMcCarthy |
If ever I moved rural I'd need to be near the sea. Even now I live in Cork City and feel happier for being close to it. But I love mountains and lakes too.
It's a big move, so I'd try and find a place that delivered on both your dreams. |  |
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| country or coast. on 20:58 - Jul 19 with 2555 views | Malintabuk |
| country or coast. on 20:50 - Jul 19 by hantssi |
Me too, I live in the ultimate suburb but would move to a city in a heartbeat.
Love The Lakes, Snowdonia, Cornwall etc but for me these are places to visit not to live. |
Live in Thanet. Only born in London as my mum meet a Londoner and she moved up there
Moved back down here when I was 5 and that was 63 years ago and I'm still a Down From London to the local lads.
There is quite a lot of.... overt hostility to people moving down to the coast. ...... only places like Brighton are more cosmopolitan. Most resorts are pretty closed shop due to the 2nd home.... AnB market perceived to be hoovering up local properties.
Hope whatever you choose is the best for you both | | | |
| country or coast. on 21:02 - Jul 19 with 2545 views | Mick_S |
| country or coast. on 20:26 - Jul 19 by Devon_4_England |
Go country near the sea to keep everyone happy.
Good luck |
That’s what we are looking at. |  |
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| country or coast. on 21:05 - Jul 19 with 2531 views | Boston |
Love the country, aargh.
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| country or coast. on 21:19 - Jul 19 with 2505 views | colinallcars |
We don' wan all you trendies comin' up from Lunnon, Aargh…… |  | | |
| country or coast. on 21:21 - Jul 19 with 2502 views | loftboy |
| country or coast. on 20:39 - Jul 19 by qpr_1968 |
thanks for the early responses, but i take that most of you fellow r's were local.
ireland is'nt out the question.....mrs 1968 is irish.
do everyone of you that has relocated regret your move.
hopefully 100% no. |
Absolutely not I swapped the east end (E13) for Suffolk and it’s the best decision I have made. | |
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| country or coast. on 21:21 - Jul 19 with 2502 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Being semi-retired three bits of advice I’d give you:
1. Unless you’re absolutely set on one, then find a place where you’re well positioned for everything you like. Mrs PH and I stayed where we now live for a year previously, so we knew it ticked pretty much all our boxes but most importantly, we got to know the area and what it would be like to live here. I’ve seen/heard many who move somewhere new straight after retirement and they didn’t know what they were moving into at a time of transition from work to retirement - so think carefully;
2. Three years will fly by, so start looking and planning now because good retirement is a job in itself; and
3. As a friend once said to me, when you’re ready to go, don’t delay!
Thus far, one year in, thankfully no regrets. But it does have its unforeseen hurdles though. |  |
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| country or coast. on 21:28 - Jul 19 with 2473 views | Konk |
I do love a bit of water, but a nice bit of river or estuary are enough for me. Absolutely love my daily harbourside walks in Bristol.
I can’t ever imagine living away from a city/decent sized town, but reckon if I had to, then ideally I might go market town with buses down to coast, and trains/buses to a decent sized town/city with a major hospital, good leisure options etc. |  |
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| country or coast. on 21:38 - Jul 19 with 2439 views | DWQPR |
Over the last few months been meeting up with a cousin who lives in the South Downs national park in Hampshire. Been having a good tour of village pubs for lunch and she is only around 10 miles from the coast. Scenery is spectacular. Best of both worlds I reckon. I love the sea, especially when rough, it’s never the same twice. | |
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| country or coast. on 21:41 - Jul 19 with 2428 views | distortR |
I was moved to the IOM when I was 13/14, left as soon as I could, lived in various towns and cities in England, been back on the island for quite some time. There's an opportunity cost living here, in terms of football, gigs, culture etc, but I like it these days, in a small town by the sea, it's easy, peaceful, safe , I can see the mountain from my window and am 5 minutes from the sea, 3 minutes away within the next 5 years! I would say, wherever you move to, get involved in the local community. I didn't, relying on trips to qpr for my friendship group, and isolated myself to a degree. | | | |
| country or coast. on 21:51 - Jul 19 with 2399 views | stowmarketrange |
When we moved up here 19 years ago,we moved to a smallish village of around 600 people and it had a pub and village post office,both of which have closed down.Our nearest pub is 2 1/2 miles away,which entails a walk through country lanes,fine on a summer evening,but not good during darker nights.
If you move to the coast,you are more likely to have more facilities than living in the country.Also check out the transport links if you move to the countryside as rural buses are becoming scarcer if you have to rely on them in later life.I don’t regret moving up here,but our house has done its job,and seen our kids grow up,but I think it’s time to move to a larger town,but my Mrs wants another village location.As the song goes,”There may be trouble ahead.”
Do your research thoroughly and you shouldn’t have any regrets. |  | | |
| country or coast. on 22:12 - Jul 19 with 2349 views | CamberleyR |
| country or coast. on 20:39 - Jul 19 by qpr_1968 |
thanks for the early responses, but i take that most of you fellow r's were local.
ireland is'nt out the question.....mrs 1968 is irish.
do everyone of you that has relocated regret your move.
hopefully 100% no. |
Me and Mrs Camberley with my youngest stepson and our grandson now five, who we are special guardians for, relocated from Farnborough just over a year ago to a beautiful village in Somerset called Milborne Port right on the Somerset/Dorset border.
We are surrounded by beautiful, rolling countryside and farmland and the village has all the amenities needed including a couple of lovely pubs but only a twenty minute drive from Yeovil for shopping.
The very pretty market town of Sherborne is only ten minutes away and the coast at Weymouth only thirty miles/forty five minutes away.
We haven't regretted it for a second. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 22:18]
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| country or coast. on 22:37 - Jul 19 with 2253 views | stevec |
Wherever you go, check there’s a train that’ll get you home after a night game at LR. |  | | |
| country or coast. on 22:38 - Jul 19 with 2247 views | ted_hendrix |
I would only suggest and depending on what you do for a living don't move whilst you are still working.
I was in a high pressure job prior to retiring and no way would I have been able to combine the two, my Company were pretty good to me they knew I wanted out PDQ so gave me a new three day working week keeping all my benifits but a few Months later I knocked it on the head and threw meself into getting me and the Mrs moved.
It was still hard work and bloody stressful beyond belief but we've been moved almost three years now and It's fantastic without exaggeration.
I'd also suggest If possible buy new like we did.
Start looking now to get the feel for It.
Good luck. |  |
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| country or coast. on 23:02 - Jul 19 with 2196 views | HantsR |
Well, I love where I live in Hampshire. I can get to LR in 90 mins or less, New Forest in 15 mins, Seaside in 30-40 mins and easy access to wonderful countryside and rivers. I'm a keen angler and wildlife photographer so I've really got all I want including a nice garden in a quiet semi rural suburb twixt Winchester and Southampton. |  | | |
| country or coast. on 23:08 - Jul 19 with 2175 views | Lblock |
| country or coast. on 20:26 - Jul 19 by Devon_4_England |
Go country near the sea to keep everyone happy.
Good luck |
This.
All day long.
Somewhere like Sussex or Suffolk, Devon etc all day long
I was looking Cotswolds years back but then realised the best of others worlds does exist
Blimey it’s pricey now though
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