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Sounds like a plan to me. And the house prices outside London should enable you to do that.
Or further north still, coast north of Newcastle is IMO the best in the country, and depending on where you go, you aren't far from all the resources of Newcastle (v good hospitals)
Tynemouth is supposed to be nice I think
When I moved here in '93, I had to go through customs at the border at Saddleworth. They put you through it at immigration, yorkshireising you. They sew up your pockets, shorten your arms and remove your sense of humour......wheyhey!
Lymington on edge of New Forest ? close to Winchester and Southampton and Bournemouth .
My family are from the Ribble Valley, which as you will know borders the Dales on one side, the Lakes on the other, wonderful parts of the world all of them.
My great grandad used to proudly (and disruptively) claim to be a Yorkshireman, born in a border village called Rimington, which depending how the wind blows flits between both counties (so it seems). All good craic.
Thing is, all these places are bloody great. I love the north of England, the people, the landscape, even the weather. Hard to beat. The sense of humour is great too.
We were walking in the RIbble Valley a while ago, hot sunny day, and passed a barn that was full of cowshite and silage. Proper gagging stench, so bad it made you laugh. The chap walks out of the barn, says casually in the broadest East Lancs brogue : "aye, that's a bit ripe innit..." Perfect.
My parents live in Worcester - which comes with similar reservations over a smaller part of the city - but is a pretty decent place to retire to. Direct rail links to London and Birmingham, not massively expensive, fair range of shopping, not too much of a dump. They came from Nottingham originally and thought about retiring back there, but then thought better of it when they started looking more seriously...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
However, we had major floods just after Christmas 2015 where a whole new area of town flooded, so there's always a danger if you're anywhere near water. (For those interested it was the Foss that flooded as the pumps broke which normally empty the Foss in to the Ouse. They broke because the water-tight pump house which had been there for decades turned out to no longer be water-tight, so the pumps flooded!)