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If only I got Trisha on the telly Pete, life would be complete :D
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I live in Norfolk and have done for most of my adult life , and have to say we have the best of both worlds , 2 hours from London , and surrounded by fabulous coast lines , lots of long straight roads , very few cameras and quite villages .
More forests than you can shake a stick at , and Norwich is a fine city with a market and castle right in the centre of town , this is still a place you can take your car and drive around both around town , we have no motorways , but the dual carriages ways are wide and not crowded .
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........... gets a bit full come the summer time , but that is mainly a coastal thing .
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My lasting memory of your part of the World Guy was being inside a Nimrod plane at a small (but amazing) air museum at Norwich Airport on the hottest day recorded 3 years ago. It was baking hot inside. Interesting but just too hot to enjoy
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I think Guy has a nice spot out there, always like Norwich from when I was in my East Anglia days. No need to leave that.
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Yes that Nimrod is still there and has a few more friends around it now , a good little museum .

Miles , as you may know I hail from Mullion Cove and always feel that crossing the Tamar is like coming back to the spiritual home , love it in Cornwall and always try to come down every couple of years ............ never in the summer though , and you know why !

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Steve wrote: Tue Mar 22, 22 6:00 pm Some great thoughts there, and nice to know I'm not on my own having that desire to drop out a bit and just slow the pace of life down. As has been said, there are things to look into and, certainly where I am, if shops and pubs are important to you, you would be very disappointed.

Good luck Blue, I'm sure the right place is out there for you. I had the same thoughts as I have bad knees. I made sure I moved to a house that can be used on one level if needed. I have a downstairs bedroom if needed, no steps, wide doors and a downstairs bathroom with a walk in shower. Sounds daft but it was on my list of needs.

Miles, you are living the dream! I was always under the impression you enjoyed work as it was a pretty specialised (and interesting) field you were in. Can't be better than surfing! Glad Cathy is sorted too.

Think the biggest part of what I'm eluding to is the simplification of daily life and going back a bit to enjoying much simpler things. When the penny dropped that 'sometimes doing nothing is doing something' then it all fell into place. I'm sure it can be done in an urban environment but wasn't something I could do properly until I moved away. :thumbright:
Congrats on the move. West coast?

I wont be far behind you, though not likely to be scotland. Though im still kicking myself for being to slow off the mark with an old farm near bewcastle near the border. Thats one i'll regret for a long time..............
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Hi Roger, South West .... shhhh.....a very well kept secret.

Just accomplished something I've always thought about but never actually managed to do. Just seen the Andromeda Galaxy. It's 2.5 million light years away and the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye. Must admit to using binoculars but it's amazing. Another 'simple thing' that has made my day :thumbright:
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Steve wrote: Fri Mar 25, 22 9:51 pm Hi Roger, South West .... shhhh.....a very well kept secret.

Just accomplished something I've always thought about but never actually managed to do. Just seen the Andromeda Galaxy. It's 2.5 million light years away and the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye. Must admit to using binoculars but it's amazing. Another 'simple thing' that has made my day :thumbright:
Becoming more well known by the day though sadly.

Been up there a few times in the last 4 years. Last was November over to Portpatrick.

Such good value for money up there.

How you getting on with midges?
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Thankfully, I'm off the beaten track so pretty much untouched by tourism. The infrastructure here is awful at best, poor Internet, poor public transport, no trains, no pubs worth mentioning and no shops so very unlikely to be developed any time soon. No probs with midges, it's to windy for them!!!

Portpatrick is nice but far to busy for me. As you know, the Mull of Galloway is a bit of a tourist magnet but easily avoided. I've joined a very small car club that meets over there once a month. It caters for everything from cars to bikes, trucks, steam, tractors and even static engines. There just isn't the interest to set up just a classic car club so they combined everything. The variety is good and nice to see some different things :thumbright:
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I got the moving out of a Bananarama! town thing sorted. The downsizing and less cost went horribly wrong though.

I now love where I live, but finding cash with two young kids and a decent mortgage has made everything move at a glacial pace with toys.

I really wanted to complete the Dart or buy a B/E body. Wife decided a kitchen would be a much better use of that income. :-#

Saving money for the next upgrade and the cost of living goes through the roof and I have a big tax bill on the horizon. Every time I get close......... [-X

Honestly, I would not change what we have done. Small village life is the best thing we have ever done and the girls have embrace the life. 😎
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Stunning view there Dave. Looks like you made a good choice.
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Very nice Dave, glad you have settled OK.

I've re read this thread and have realised that moving out of a busy city doesn't automatically equate to 'simplifying your life'.

The core of my question / observation is a simpler life and how to achieve it..... or is it actually what everyone wants (if you believe the telly). What is a 'simpler life'.

Personally, I had never felt settled in the Midlands as its not where I'm from or a place I feel connected to or at home in.

Although I'm a technophobe, my life started to become very cluttered with the use of technology (or the expectation that it makes our life better in some way so I must embrace it) and I've lost touch with a good friend because he insists on running every part of his life on Facebook.

I look back with fondness at my childhood in the 60s and 70s in Scotland when my family had almost nothing with regards to material possessions. We didn't have a car, a phone or holidays worth mentioning. My dad worked very hard to provide for us but when he left work at the end of the day, that was it. He wasn't phoned about something, or emailed out of hours by workaholics who couldn't leave work behind. He was never recalled to work. IHe got home and we made models, played cards or chess or just talked. It was just simple and completely uncomplicated.

I did the usual stuff. I explored, I walked, I rode my bike, made things, read books and just enjoyed the fresh air with no stress (apart from school. I hated every second of it).

Roll on 40 years and I found myself overwhelmed by a sense of mental clutter, a hatred of the selfishness around me based on a culture of 'want' and just an underlying tone of leading a very complicated life. I was almost unable to do anything without it involving some kind of justification or social explanation. I'm pretty sure this claustrophobic feeling of being in a 'herd' was harming me mentally and the craving to find what I had and missed from my youth became overpowering. I'm sure some people can live a simple life in an urban environment but I found it impossible.

I've found it thankfully and it's incredibly liberating. If I venture to the touristy parts of where I live, I meet people who crave the peace and quiet and, more importantly, a simple life, but say they can't do it. They are usually the ones with £100k motorhomes and Hunter wellies :D

My latest project is to find evidence of as many of the old features on my local OS map as I can. Makes the walks more interesting and, despite hating it at school, I now like history. I found the site of an Iron Age Fort a few days ago. The ground was very hard so ok on my old trick knees, wouldn't be as easy if it was wet!

Cheers Steve :thumbright:
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I would love to drive around the middle of nowhere like that. You are living life properly!
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It is a great place to just drift around in the old car. No traffic etc at all and no rushing about. Ive met a few car guys too so not stuck for people to talk rubbish with \:D/
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