Location advice - Cornwall

Davesnave

Murphybear wrote: »

I live in mid Devon away from Exmoor and Dartmoor and it's a rural farming community so is quieter and cheaper. There's a really good teaching hospital as well - RD & E in Exeter.

I live in Mid-Devon too (South Molton, Crediton, Okehampton triangle) and the tourists scarcely register with me at all.

Although our village is about 50:50 locals/incomers, there isn't much 'them and us.' I still view it as the Proper Devon of my youth, despite all the estuary English.

But the OP wants beaches, and even with a good imagination + a pint or two, I can't see the spring tides from here!

Muttleythefrog

Zeni wrote: »

I live in south west Cornwall (and have all my life bar 4 years at uni) and agree Falmouth is lovely. It is a great town if you want to live somewhere where there is lots going on with festivals and events, loads of fab restaurants (I joke to my OH we could prob try a new place every day for a month just walking around the main town and its not far wrong!) it has good supermarkets - big Asda just on the outskirts in penryn, sainsburys, lidl and a tesco extra in town as well as lots of smaller shops and good transport links and car parking. Only downside is it can be pricey as we've looked a lot there and were just priced out of it. Plus is has good beaches close - gyllynvase beach and swanpool are nice.
I'd give a vote for camborne/redruth area too, as you can find some really nice areas on the fringe which are near beaches and get a bit more for your money than in falmouth house wise and redruth train station is on the direct train link (Portreath is a lovely beach not far out).

In regards to deprivation, I think people are surprised that there is some really poor areas in this county and ive always found the biggest differences in the most popular tourist places like st ives for example and over seaside towns/villages. Living in Cornwall i have never experienced a huge amount of crime and only find most people friendly but then again i live in a more rural town than the bigger ones.

Oh interesting. So you didn't go to Falmouth University then... too little art? (Sorry a private joke to myself.. you'll understand it if you read previous pages and search for the posts people made on the Uni there).

Falmouth... interesting detail. Restaurant central... noted. But all your details useful.... struggling to take all the info I'm getting in today... the Gods at MSE better not delete the thread! The facilities all seem there... and the various beaches seem to offer something a little different... but yes price wise... for us too.. it'll be a push.. and given the lack of negativity is perhaps an indication of which direction prices will head.

Camborne/Redruth.. your points duly notes... matching other people's suggestions I feel too.

On deprivation... again intriguing.. so the variance you can see in seaside towns elsewhere in the country perhaps is more descriptive of what is found there in similar places.

Thanks very much... I appreciate the time people have given.

Muttleythefrog

Davesnave wrote: »

I live in Mid-Devon too (South Molton, Crediton, Okehampton triangle) and the tourists scarcely register with me at all.

Although our village is about 50:50 locals/incomers, there isn't much 'them and us.' I still view it as the Proper Devon of my youth, despite all the estuary English.

But the OP wants beaches, and even with a good imagination + a pint or two, I can't see the spring tides from here!

Sounds lovely... maybe you've managed to keep a village idiot out so far..lol... so don't give away your exact location for goodness sake. But yes... I think for me.. my mind... beaches and sea... they give me that feeling of potential escape..lol... with a pint or two an enhanced belief it can be done with a few pieces of driftwood..lol.

Davesnave

Muttleythefrog wrote: »

Sounds lovely... maybe you've managed to keep a village idiot out so far..lol... so don't give away your exact location for goodness sake. But yes... I think for me.. my mind... beaches and sea... they give me that feeling of potential escape..lol... with a pint or two an enhanced belief it can be done with a few pieces of driftwood..lol.

What I was hinting at, in a round-about way, is that the prettier the location and the cuter the properties, especially by the sea, the less likely it is that there will be a preponderance of those 'ordinary people' who glue the community together in various ways, giving up their time to run things for the benefit of all.

An ordinary village like mine has many of them. Somewhere with numerous holiday lets, affluent person bolt-holes etc will have fewer.

It might matter, or it might not. The pubs will be full in the holiday season and for a 'hail-fellow, well-met' sort of person, it might be a good thing rather than a bad one that the clientele is constantly changing. It's not what I want especially, but we're all different.

Murphybear

What a great thread this is turning out to be . Muttley, I hope you keep us up to date with what is happening.

brixham

On a recent walk around Polperro I noticed a HUGE amount of signs indicating properties were holiday lets. I think I would want to check an area out for that because as pretty as some villages are, if half the housing is holiday stock I would question the "community feel".
What would it be like in the middle of January ?

Muttleythefrog

Murphybear wrote: »

What a great thread this is turning out to be . Muttley, I hope you keep us up to date with what is happening.

lol... thanks.. I'll definitely return to it in the coming years if things do happen... lots of water to go under bridge... key to timeline is just clearing out of the way wife Visa matters... indefinite leave to remain is if all goes as expected 3.5 years off.. and due to illness totally neglected this house so we need to up our game to make it attractive to buyers... new kitchen next I think.

Muttleythefrog

Davesnave wrote: »

What I was hinting at, in a round-about way, is that the prettier the location and the cuter the properties, especially by the sea, the less likely it is that there will be a preponderance of those 'ordinary people' who glue the community together in various ways, giving up their time to run things for the benefit of all.

An ordinary village like mine has many of them. Somewhere with numerous holiday lets, affluent person bolt-holes etc will have fewer.

It might matter, or it might not. The pubs will be full in the holiday season and for a 'hail-fellow, well-met' sort of person, it might be a good thing rather than a bad one that the clientele is constantly changing. It's not what I want especially, but we're all different.

Ah I see.. yes very important point. One of the reasons I still have Par area up there is I do get the impression there is still community.. the ordinary homes and hopefully the people committed to holding things together. I suspect I might get best idea 'out of season' when can see the places more in the raw. On the pubs.. yeah I sort of like a mix of both.. regulars but passing clientele...reminds me of the good old days when I used to run one..lol... although most people passing through in that case was from the University hospital in Sheffield... so customers who often should have been on a ward.

But yes I get the point you're making.. makes sense.

Muttleythefrog

brixham wrote: »

On a recent walk around Polperro I noticed a HUGE amount of signs indicating properties were holiday lets. I think I would want to check an area out for that because as pretty as some villages are, if half the housing is holiday stock I would question the "community feel".
What would it be like in the middle of January ?

Yeah important points.... and this is a bit alien to me... as not used to seeing the volume of holiday homes.. and park homes (if they're different..lol)... at least not since living abroad. I suspect out of season trip and keen eye for the signs in gardens will be useful. I think even I would be pretty demoralised if I have to go looking for graveyards to find any life around come Hallowe'en.

warehouse

seashore22 wrote: »

What an offensive little post person.

Fixed it for you.