Moving to a new town where do I start?

roses_babe

i want to move to cornwall due to not having any family around the area i live. i have friends but would like a change. i have visited cornwall a few times and loves it. I would choose newquay or st ives to live think both those towns are wonderful. I havnt got a job set up yet but have been applying for a few and would just have to travel down to get an interview im 21 and would really like a fresh start

PasturesNew

So, you're clinging to a dream. It doesn't exist. Cornwall's lovely to look at, but lovely to look at doesn't put food on the table .... and nor do most of the wages, when a job isn't seasonal/variable hours.

Everything/anything you want is always a huge trek/round trip.... shops have very little choice and so you might have to try a few towns "to see one thing", so that's a 100 mile round trip.

Everything's expensive. Bosses actually say to you "You're lucky to have a job" and "People come here for the lifestyle you know" - but there IS no lifestyle if you're in the wrong place, without a good job (of which there are very few) and you're not in an established couple with some national pay scale salaries coming in.

Newquay and St Ives are probably the worst two places you could pick for jobs too.

Rents are high, half the private rented places were identified a month ago as being dire (and that's when you can find one as LLs make more money by renting them as holiday homes).

There's 'nothing to do', because there's not enough people to make anything worthwhile putting on, even the few learning chances/evening classes are in the booklet but cancelled due to no bookings. Things to do are expensive, because their target market is 'people with more money than you'.

And, once you're there, you're so remote from anywhere else in the country that it costs an arm and a leg (and takes 2 days) to go anywhere... so you don't.

G_M

PasturesNew wrote: »

So, you're clinging to a dream. It doesn't exist. Cornwall's lovely to look at, but lovely to look at doesn't put food on the table .... and nor do most of the wages, when a job isn't seasonal/variable hours.

Everything/anything you want is always a huge trek/round trip.... shops have very little choice and so you might have to try a few towns "to see one thing", so that's a 100 mile round trip.

Everything's expensive. Bosses actually say to you "You're lucky to have a job" and "People come here for the lifestyle you know" - but there IS no lifestyle if you're in the wrong place, without a good job (of which there are very few) and you're not in an established couple with some national pay scale salaries coming in.

Newquay and St Ives are probably the worst two places you could pick for jobs too.

Rents are high, half the private rented places were identified a month ago as being dire (and that's when you can find one as LLs make more money by renting them as holiday homes).

There's 'nothing to do', because there's not enough people to make anything worthwhile putting on, even the few learning chances/evening classes are in the booklet but cancelled due to no bookings. Things to do are expensive, because their target market is 'people with more money than you'.

And, once you're there, you're so remote from anywhere else in the country that it costs an arm and a leg (and takes 2 days) to go anywhere... so you don't.

And to think I was planning to retire there.........