Moving from England to Wales during Welsh lockdown

Splatfoot

We are due to exchange on our house in the next week or so. We will also be moving to Wales but have not found anywhere yet. We will be living in a motor home whilst we search. I suppose we'll have to just hover round the border until lockdown lifts! 

MoneySeeker1

Indeed - when my brother/family were able to manage to go to Lockdown apology-for-a-funeral months back they took with them a letter from the minister concerned in case they were stopped halfway down the motorway. They weren't.

Personally I've found the best way to go about things is to put on a confident demeanour and obviously confidently expecting to "go about one's business" and most people then take you at your (non-verbal) word that you are clearly entitled to do whatever-it-is and know that fact and don't challenge you in the first place.

ChasingtheWelshdream

Croeso i Gymru (Wecome to Wales).

Best move we ever made, hope you’ll be very happy here. (Just remember to buy any pants/socks before you cross over the border! 😂)

kayannie

Thanks for all the advice.
ChasingtheWelshdream - this has been a long time dream for us, my mum was a Welsh girl, her family are Welsh through & through so I do have some Welsh blood!  Just wish the move had been possible earlier in our lives but better late than never!

grumiofoundation

MoneySeeker1 said:

Indeed - when my brother/family were able to manage to go to Lockdown apology-for-a-funeral months back they took with them a letter from the minister concerned in case they were stopped halfway down the motorway. They weren't.

Personally I've found the best way to go about things is to put on a confident demeanour and obviously confidently expecting to "go about one's business" and most people then take you at your (non-verbal) word that you are clearly entitled to do whatever-it-is and know that fact and don't challenge you in the first place.

Have been crossing the border Monday-Friday for months - not been 'stopped' once. 

Davesnave

Splatfoot said:

We are due to exchange on our house in the next week or so. We will also be moving to Wales but have not found anywhere yet. We will be living in a motor home whilst we search. I suppose we'll have to just hover round the border until lockdown lifts! 

The Welsh police have stated they aren't going to hang around on the border, but rather like God, they'll be 'everywhere.'

Personally, I find this hard to believe, because our Devon & Cornwall police have to spread themselves pretty thinly at the best of times, so when they were turning motor homers around earlier in the year, they were focused on the main routes, not the B class rat runs we locals use to avoid those in the holiday season.

There will be plenty of ways in and out of Wales that won't be monitored at all.

moneysavinghero

It appears that you currently own 2 homes. One that you currently reside in in England and a new one in Wales.

 Therefore it is not essential that you move to Wales during the lockdown, regardless of whether you will eventually make the Welsh one your permanent home in the future.

moneysavinghero

Splatfoot said:

We are due to exchange on our house in the next week or so. We will also be moving to Wales but have not found anywhere yet. We will be living in a motor home whilst we search. I suppose we'll have to just hover round the border until lockdown lifts! 

Not another campervan ruining the beauty.

Davesnave

moneysavinghero said:

It appears that you currently own 2 homes. One that you currently reside in in England and a new one in Wales.

 Therefore it is not essential that you move to Wales during the lockdown, regardless of whether you will eventually make the Welsh one your permanent home in the future.

OP has clearly stated she is renting.

moneysavinghero

Whether its rented or not, they still have a home, so not essential for them to move. It's only a few weeks. Think of the old people.