where is the best place to live on the south coast?

sunseeker423

sunseeker423

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Hi

We are brits originally from NW UK and need help deciding on the best place to relocate to the south.
We have 2 small children and would like to live in a nice place close to a beach.
I really want to move to Helston in Cornwall but worried that its too isolated so was then thinking of a place close to Truro for more opportunities for work.
The other places i am going to look at are Weymouth and Exmouth for even more work opportunities but these places look a lot busier.
We have been in the holiday industry for almost 20 years and i am a gas and a/c engineer so i don't think finding work will be too much of a problem.
We are not looking to make a fortune but i want to live in a really nice place with a low crime rate.
I have looked at a few forums where people have scared off families looking to relocate to certain areas with their reports of 'chavs' terrorising the towns but that doesn't worry me as most places in the UK have chavs don't they?
I am going to visit these places before we relocate but would like your help to point me in the right direction please.
Thanks in advance
 
Thanks, i drove through Bournemouth and it looked nice but seemed really built up but surprisingly dead.When i got to Weymouth it seemed more of a working town even in the winter and there was a nice,cool vibe to it,Dorchester looked nice too.I got to Torquay but didn't like it as much but then ran out of time and had to head to the grim North.
The UK is that busy am i right in thinking that places like south Cornwall are not that quiet and isolated anymore with all the modernisation of transport,connections,major retailers moved in etc...?
 
Thanks guys,with your info so far have narrowed it down to these areas....

Truro,Cornwall - for its beauty and isolation for myself but maybe not good for the rest of us haha,is it too far from airports for holidays?
but i do like its central location for beaches and the rest of Cornwall but is Cornwall too quiet to raise a family and is it too cut off for when they grow up?

Sidmouth - thanks Josh,looks nice on Google Earth,should be fine for schools nearby and great location for travel,and its right on the beach.

Weymouth- same reasons as Sidmouth but don't think its as nice as other options? but no idea as i am a northerner haha.

More recommendations welcome though, thanks
 
UberTiger said:
Same where my mum is in the midlands. There’s so many more homeless people on the streets the last couple of years.

She went out to her car behind the building where she works last week and encountered a chap shooting up heroin :(

It’s a pretty small town too, not a big city.

I can also vouch for Sandbanks. That place is insane. A little surreal though, you’d have to be minted.
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Sandbanks again eh? i have to visit that place now haha,suppose the wife could get a job looking after the elderly in that big waiting room next door? :)
I think care work wages are good aren't they?
 
Vexr said:
Well we're now living in the Tory / Universal Credit paradise we always dreamed of. Can't be that bad though, our homeless don't push trolleys full of junk around like in the US, the ultimate land of the free and parasitic capitalism without restraint.



Very good point. Who asks the sort of question the OP did without being a bit established here beforehand? Long-time lurker, first time personal what-do-I-do-with-my-life/where-should-I-live poster?
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Very sorry 'Vexr' and 'rossi'for breaking forum rules, i didn't know i had to be established before i asked a question on a forum.What if i am one of those things you labelled me with? yes i am a first time forumer but isn't this what forums are for? or is there a different forum for this type of question?
I am worried about bringing up my young family in the wrong place and am really happy with the advice i have been given so far and i am a little less anxious about the big move now.
 
Coastal towns sound pretty rough so it might have to be one of those smaller quieter villages on the coast full of old farts or Truro/Dorchester, not heard anything bad about those yet:)
 
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