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Personally, I’d probably pick somewhere around Brighton. I’m a salt water guy. The weather is marginally better. Victoria is an hour train ride. Eurostar at St Pancras is a 10 minute tube ride from Victoria. Easy access to LGW. If you want to go skiing, lots of cheap flights to Geneva. You can be skiing at Chamonix by noon if you want. 4 1/2 hours to Tenerife if you want somewhere warm in January. Endless flights to the sunny parts of Spain and the Algarve.
Personally, I’d probably pick somewhere around Brighton. I’m a salt water guy. The weather is marginally better. Victoria is an hour train ride. Eurostar at St Pancras is a 10 minute tube ride from Victoria. Easy access to LGW. If you want to go skiing, lots of cheap flights to Geneva. You can be skiing at Chamonix by noon if you want. 4 1/2 hours to Tenerife if you want somewhere warm in January. Endless flights to the sunny parts of Spain and the Algarve.
As a northerner, I naturally choose North Yorkshire as it's a beautiful place to live and offers everything I want.
The south has some lovely areas though, especially parts of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
As a northerner, I naturally choose North Yorkshire as it's a beautiful place to live and offers everything I want.
The south has some lovely areas though, especially parts of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
This kind of sums up a big part of what I have been saying. Those 3 counties you mention are in the South West, and I've always thought that the South West and the North East have more in common with each other than either has with the South East.
Northumbria and the West Country have a lot of similar physical characteristics like mountains, moorland, big lakes, rocky coastlines, gorges, huge valleys surrounded by hills, etc, which simply aren't there in the South East. It goes right down to cultural things, like a coal mining heritage, which is all over the NE and SW but nonexistent in the SE.
This kind of sums up a big part of what I have been saying. Those 3 counties you mention are in the South West, and I've always thought that the South West and the North East have more in common with each other than either has with the South East.
Northumbria and the West Country have a lot of similar physical characteristics like mountains, moorland, big lakes, rocky coastlines, gorges, huge valleys surrounded by hills, etc, which simply aren't there in the South East. It goes right down to cultural things, like a coal mining heritage, which is all over the NE and SW but nonexistent in the SE.
Northumbria is an old Ancient Kingdom usually linked to the Saxons, and which covered North East England including parts of South East Scotland and parts of Yorkshire.
It's the equivalent of calling the Midlands Mercia or the South West Wessex etc.
There are lots of important local county identities within the term Northumbria, which is an entirely separate term to Northumberland, which is a county in itself.
Ancient Saxon Kingdoms -
The actual traditional counties of Great Britain - minus the 1974 metropolitan areas.
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Nice football, nice city, awful as a 'seaside' town though!
To visit, I certainly agree. I’d prefer a vast sand beach with no people around and a small coastal village with some good pubs and chip shops. To live full time, you have a substantial city and the quick access to Gatwick and Victoria Station. I haven’t been there recently. I’ve read that there’s a homeless problem.
This kind of sums up a big part of what I have been saying. Those 3 counties you mention are in the South West, and I've always thought that the South West and the North East have more in common with each other than either has with the South East.
Northumbria and the West Country have a lot of similar physical characteristics like mountains, moorland, big lakes, rocky coastlines, gorges, huge valleys surrounded by hills, etc, which simply aren't there in the South East. It goes right down to cultural things, like a coal mining heritage, which is all over the NE and SW but nonexistent in the SE.
There was coal mining in Kent, which is about as South East as you can get!
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