What country would you move to, if you had the opportunity?

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bigmike20vt said:
Cornwall is really nice. problem with it is the weather is such a mixed bag and there are just too many people and the roads are horrendous. I know even around Spain etc if you go the the obvious tourist places it's even more heaving .... but with a bit of local know how it's still possible to find unspoiled places. this may be true in Cornwall too but not as much imo
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Its perfectly true in Cornwall, just the same as Spain etc. Weather is a personal choice, you simply cant get it reliable in the UK but many like the cold!
 
200sols said:
Its perfectly true in Cornwall, just the same as Spain etc. Weather is a personal choice, you simply cant get it reliable in the UK but many like the cold!
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if you like the british weather then there are loads of stunning places to live in the uk (i like North wales myself my grandad used to own a large plot of land on Anglesey that him and my dad built a house on as well as part of the Menai straits so i spent a lot of my childhood there both during and after they built the house). I do appreciate the UK as well TBH - tho it may not always seem that way - i finished season 2 of clarkesons farm yesterday and fully reminded of how lovely our countryside is.
i do like the sea however as well as swimming / snorkelling / scuba diving in it............ but ours is just too blooming cold for me. (no where i have been touches the red sea for that of course........ but its a bit too hot as well as socially unstable for me to want to live in Egypt).

so you can keep your place in cornwall and i will go to Menorca - but maybe we could house swap for a few weeks each year (if for no other reason than proper Cornish pasties and cream teas rock! ;) )

if you like rural Sark is a nice place to visit (or was 20+ years ago), My uncle was the bank manager of Natwest on there so i visited a few times..... he is long gone now however so havent been back for ages. i doubt its changed much however, as that was kind of its thing. (only 3 cars on the island iirc - and they are for disabled people so they got special permission).
 
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Chris Wilson said:
To some Cornish it is a different country and "foreigners" are unwelcome.It's a local county for local people.
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North wales can be much the same........ nothing is more welcoming (sarcasm) than walking into a pub where the locals are speaking English, they realise you are English and seeing them all swap to welsh. to some degree i get it, it must be tough non local people moving in and buying up all their land and what not.............. but in that sense North wales and cornwall are much alike... take away the money from tourism and rich peoples cash and they would be stuffed.
 
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Chris Wilson said:
I avoid Wales, and especially north Wales like the plague and if by chance I am forced to spend money there I am looking for the Prozac afterwards :)
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lol the people are not all like that - and less so now than they used to be.... and it is a fantastic country. The weather is noticably colder/wetter than East Anglia where i live now however.
 
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I don't plan the work bit but do intend to retire and move to Spain in the next 2/3 years, somewhere around the Denia area. Got two sets of friends already living there
 
bigmike20vt said:
North wales can be much the same........ nothing is more welcoming (sarcasm) than walking into a pub where the locals are speaking English, they realise you are English and seeing them all swap to welsh. to some degree i get it, it must be tough non local people moving in and buying up all their land and what not.............. but in that sense North wales and cornwall are much alike... take away the money from tourism and rich peoples cash and they would be stuffed.
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It would annoy me too tbf, rich Londoners buying up the housing stock and turning them all into Air BnB’s.
 
robfosters said:
It would annoy me too tbf, rich Londoners buying up the housing stock and turning them all into Air BnB’s.
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true enough.... tho in my families case my grandad lived and before then worked there.......
its a toughie and i sympathise but like i say, take the foreign or non local money out of the economy of many of these places and what are they left with?

Also whilst i am English and Wales and Scotland are different countries, i am a proper mongrel with Welsh, Scottish and English blood. I like to tell myself we are mostly a big happy family in the uk - which isnt really true i know.........
 
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dod said:
A fan of freedom of movement now then are we?
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I always supported it in EU if that's what youre getting at. But of course, a BRITISH territory should have course have freedom of movement - they are British the same as us. Its like saying no freedom of movement to the Isle of Wight.
 
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