Girly Boy Southern Whimps

brixham

chucknorris wrote: »

No worries, 2.4M is way out of my league but then so are some houses that cost well over that here too.

But I have been very pleasantly suprised by the extremely nice looking houses available for under 500k around the Paignton area, they would cost at least half as much again in Dorking. When we know more about Devon we may very well refocus on another area but Paignton has a sandy beach which allows dogs on during the summer (probably about 7-8 am before it gets crowded in our case). Our ideal area would be walking (<10 mins) distance to a sandy beach (that allows dogs walked during the summer) but also have similar countryside access too, any ideas?

Oh heck now you got me thinking !

ANYWHERE in the South Hams is beautiful but as Dave said you pay for the address.
Churston or Broadsands inbetween Paignton and Brixham both have fab beaches and are on the coast walk and a golf course if that is your thing.
Or go the otherway and look and Shaldon next to Teignmouth as a nice village with a beach and many fine pubs !

lostinrates

Really2 wrote: »

True,

How many retire to London?

Now "get oof muy laand"

Sunday Times Property section had a piece on people giving up the rural idyll and move back to suburbs/cities. Only read the headline: then it got recyled before I'd had a chance to read :mad:

Davesnave

Conrad wrote: »

My favorite part of Britain I think. South Devon can't match North for beaches and other worldliness.

I've just bought a new place in the middle, from every direction. After unloading some of our belongings, we sat down in the conservatory doorway to eat lunch and I suddenly realised I could hear .....nothing. The 'nothing' was very loud!

I have tried listening like this in many places, including forests in England and on the Welsh hills, but there's usually a plane or a motorbike somewhere.

Admittedly, lunch the following day wasn't quite so peaceful: still no planes or motorcycles, but the unmistakable skirl of the bagpipes....

Of course, I know now...... Northerners heading south. It's a conspiracy, I tell you!:rotfl:

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Sunday Times Property section had a piece on people giving up the rural idyll and move back to suburbs/cities. Only read the headline: then it got recyled before I'd had a chance to read :mad:

Ah, but next week they'll have a full page spread about the Smythe-Blenkinsops and how they overcame an agricultural tie with three alpacas and a Jacobs sheep, turned their Woolaway bungalow into a 6 bed gin palace and now earn enough from their self-sufficiency business directory to contemplate a second venture in Tuscany.

Twas always thus...;)

MrsE_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I have a good friend near Torquay who is whinging she hasn't had a summer for three years, bar the odd couple of weeks.

I said they get the mildest winters......

We (the south-east) get the warmest summers;)

GrammarGirl

elwistua wrote: »

Yes and we are also not in a recession being led by a barrel load of monkeys, sorry no offense to MSE reading monkeys!!

I have no idea what you're talking about!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I have a good friend near Torquay who is whinging she hasn't had a summer for three years, bar the odd couple of weeks.

When I was in Cornwall we never got the heatwaves the telly was on about. At one point we had sea fog for about a week, no sun at all coming through, yet the telly was showing us how London was hot hot hot.

Wales has been ... bl00dy wet. Bl00dy wet. Too bl00dy wet. On the telly, there you all were with your heatwave, I had rain. Chatting online and people in the south east are telling me they are sweltering, I am telling them it's raining here... again.

Plan A was to "not work for a bit, enjoy the summers"... not bl00dy had one yet!

chopperharris

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I was in Cornwall we never got the heatwaves the telly was on about. At one point we had sea fog for about a week, no sun at all coming through, yet the telly was showing us how London was hot hot hot.

Wales has been ... bl00dy wet. Bl00dy wet. Too bl00dy wet. On the telly, there you all were with your heatwave, I had rain. Chatting online and people in the south east are telling me they are sweltering, I am telling them it's raining here... again.

Plan A was to "not work for a bit, enjoy the summers"... not bl00dy had one yet!

Summer , nowadays its just a fabled tale of memories or the first name for female !!!!!! stars.

My wife reckons theres a weather machine in the south east and they soak up the good weather from everywhere else in the uk , then unleash it on that london.Then follows mutterings of questionable paternalage of the english if you get my drift ,yet not including cornish nationals of course.

The south (west) will rise again.