Where To Re-Locate Alone?! :)

ognum

I too would opt for Cambridge, jobs are easy to get (more jobs than people), it's a small city so has cinemas, theatres etc. has shops and places to eat out and is close to contryside.

You can keep fit by biking everywhere, it's a 50 min commute to London if you need to. has a good road network to get you to your family in Essex. Has a good population of people moving in so friends available. Comfortable multicultural place.

Now the downside, housing is costly. It's very flat!

dogcat_2

Ha ha...I lived in Leigh and Southend for many years.....now live in Devon.....and I love it!

BigAunty

I killed my commute from nearly 2 hours to 20 minutes door to door by moving from down south to a city in Scotland. I know its a bit radical compared to the OPs requirements.

Salaries were less but then again, property prices were a fraction, my monthly train ticket was £50 rather than hundreds, usually got a seat on the train (all 11 minutes of its journey) and I lived 3 miles from the city centre on a non-management salary.

In the event of weather issues or industrial action affecting the train service, I could walk in or hop on a bus.

One of my pals who elected to live down south and couldn't get on the property ladder is now a lodger in her 40s in London whereas she could have bought a flat a few miles from the city centre up here on a single salary. Wouldn't want to be approaching my 50s and still having to flat-share.

It's horrible to see how skewed things are with regards to work opportunities and property prices, the low wage versus high accommodation cost economy that we have. Where prices are more affordable, work is often really scarce.