Has anyone relocated from the South East to North of England?

lisyloo

Davesnave wrote: »

While it's true that some rural areas are expensive, there's a big difference between, say, somewhere like Wellow on the outskirts of Bath, or Chew Stoke on the outskirts of Bristol and one of the ex-mining villages, like Paulton (see, I know my geography!)

And while we are more out in the sticks here, there's a railway that bisects this part of Devon, so I'd have a choice of a train or a bus every hour to Exeter/Barnstaple if I wanted it. I can also reach my doctor/dentist in 5 minutes from here, but B&Q or a normal sized Sainsburys is a 42mile round trip!

What you get in the country is often an anomalous mixture when it comes to convenience. Another example would be schools here, which are excellent, but there's no way children can safely walk to them, in winter particularly, so everyone pays or ferries their kids. In town, my children would walk a greater distance than they'd need to here to go to their chosen school.

Yes, there are problems, some of which can be overcome by knowing the areas really well before buying. I'd say 'near Bristol' is vastly different from here though; they're not comparable, though we do have horses, like Charlie Watts' wife's Arabian stud, which had 56 of them last time I looked. Now there's someone with taste!

I agree with you Dave but I work in an industry where people change jobs every few years, whether that’s through liquidation, acquisition, redundancy, off-shoring or out of choice.
We (2 jobs) have found it better to place ourselves well for commuting generally e.g. near a mainline rail station and motorway, within commuting distance of several large towns rather than for a specific job,

A certain amount comes down to industry, so for example Cornwall will have nurses and teachers but probably not a lot of hi tech industry.

If your a hedge fund manager or barrister then your choices are restricted.

We work it IT which isn’t as restrictive as the above but there’s still a lot more jobs in the cities/towns than in rural areas.

It’s Not the only criteria, but I defy anyone to say commute is unimportant these days (unless they work from home).

Oddly enough I now have a job where I can work remotely 5 days a week, but DH has to be in the office 5 days a week.

iksbedd

@chelseablue

Have you made any headway on this? I have a job offer on the table still, and have looked into schools up there which have places which are as good as the children's current school, our house is going on the market tomorrow, but I still can't bring myself to accept the job offer and resign from the job I've had for 13 years.

I'm totally petrified I'm making the wrong decision!

chelseablue

iksbedd wrote: »

@chelseablue

Have you made any headway on this? I have a job offer on the table still, and have looked into schools up there which have places which are as good as the children's current school, our house is going on the market tomorrow, but I still can't bring myself to accept the job offer and resign from the job I've had for 13 years.

I'm totally petrified I'm making the wrong decision!

Not progress as such, but I have set up a Rightmove email alert for Lancashire does that count :rotfl:

Getting daily emails of houses where I could have almost no mortgage and are actually nicer than the house I have now certainly focuses the mind!

Im sure you've sort of made up your mind if your selling your house?

I was in my last job 11 years (from 22 to 33) and thought I'd never leave but I did and I love my current job even more than there.

Go for it I say (I will if you will haha)

iksbedd

Well, going on the market doesn't mean I have to move up North..... :rotfl: