Where to Retire To ?

Alisha2008

Spain


But then I'm spanish, so it's an easy choice!

Goldiegirl

You didn't mention your interests, whether male or female, married, single or co-habiting, so it's difficult to make suggestions.


However, my thoughts are not to move too far from where you are now.


Just thinking, if you move to the other end of the country, you could become a bit isolated without family and trusted old friends on hand.


I'm going to stay right here in this house that I've lived in happily for 25 years, with a view to downsizing in the medium to long term, if we feel it's best for us at some point in the future. We've got good access to coast and countryside and to London and it fulfils our needs.


If I were to move, I'd like to go to the New Forest area, in a fairly rural location, and quite near to the coast

iris

Having lived in North Devon for 10 years I would not recommend it. It is very busy in the summer months and getting around then is a nightmare


The locals i.e. proper Devonians, are not very friendly, they do not like 'foreigners' moving into their villages and buying up their houses:cool:


However, having said that the scenery is lovely and being in easy reach of the coast is an added bonus. We loved the Tarka Trail and spent many a happy hour cycling for miles.

SailorSam

iris wrote: »

The locals i.e. proper Devonians, are not very friendly, they do not like 'foreigners' moving into their villages and buying up their houses:cool:

A bit like some of the Welsh that. Remember some of the stories we use to see a few years back about them setting fire to cottages that English people had bought, or at the very least starting to speak in their native tongue if you went into the shops.

sandsy

I'd stay where I am now but undertake extensive travelling to escape the winter, using my hard earned pension!

getmore4less

I think the key is to think about what you will want need as you grow older.
where will your interests be.
will you want access to family.

I think about health and travel and access to things localy long term they will be a priority.

Also if you get it right you can get rid of the need for owning a car saves a shedload of money.

We are traveling more as we reduce the workload so airports and ports

One question to ask is why you live where you do now and have not moved away before.

If you want to work what sort of work?

If you hate the weather then dual living a place you can secure for a few month while you head for the warm.

gadgetmind

SailorSam wrote: »

Remember some of the stories we use to see a few years back about them setting fire to cottages that English people had bought

"Come home to a real fire; buy a cottage in Wales!"

I tried and failed to find a clip of it.

bigadaj

gadgetmind wrote: »

"Come home to a real fire; buy a cottage in Wales!"

I tried and failed to find a clip of it.

Not the nine o'clock news.

Those were the days, as a Welshman we've softened over the years, I've been in England for a good while, which I think is a positive move in helping a less developed nation make the most of itself, though as people have said before, the locals aren't so friendly when I point this out.

Freecall

SailorSam wrote: »

Remember some of the stories we use to see a few years back about them setting fire to cottages that English people had bought

That would be the Welsh Nationalists in the 1970's - I guess that was a few years back.

Or, another way to look at how long ago a was the joke of 'Come home to a real fire.... buy a cottage in Wales' which was derived from an advertising campaign by the National Coal Board (remember them?) which encouraged people to burn coal because at the time Britain was self-sufficient in coal but we had to import electricity.

I guess that 'a few years back' describes it pretty well.

Seems like a lifetime ago.

atush

Well the french aren't so friendly either, the breton nationalists blew up our local McDonalds. In Quevert.

I like France, I have a little gite there. but the work scene is poor. their national health has copays. I have a very nice and clever neighbor who has been unemployed for years now.