[Sussex] If you could live anywhere ?

[Paskman]

Not required for the type of dwellings I'm planning. Well, I mean you need to inform the authorities you are building and living on there but because the home i am building will technically be completely movable no planning permission is required.

Caravans, tents? careful they are clamping down on that particular dodge, especially if it is somewhere such as an AONB and in Cornwall you will have to prove that you are Cornish (recognised minority group now) by reciting the Cornish national anthem in full and in Cornish - they don't like Emmits down there! I should know my wife is Cornish through and through, decended from a family of wreckers, well that's what I tell her

 

[Nibble]

Caravans, tents? careful they are clamping down on that particular dodge, especially if it is somewhere such as an AONB and in Cornwall you will have to prove that you are Cornish (recognised minority group now) by reciting the Cornish national anthem in full and in Cornish - they don't like Emmits down there! I should know my wife is Cornish through and through, decended from a family of wreckers, well that's what I tell her

Ha! no Wooden lodges on sunken, wheeled, flat beds. Luckily I am good friends with the farmer on the adjacent land and many of the locals/Cornish Heritage etc. They are welcome to pull as much "You're not Cornish" crap as they like. The law is the law. Luckily there has never been any need to assert my legal rights as all involved have been more than friendly.

 

[Paskman]

Ha! no Wooden lodges on sunken, wheeled, flat beds. Luckily I am good friends with the farmer on the adjacent land and many of the locals/Cornish Heritage etc. They are welcome to pull as much "You're not Cornish" crap as they like. The law is the law. Luckily there has never been any need to assert my legal rights as all involved have been more than friendly.

Chons da!.......

 

[Nibble]

I've had the land for a while now and visit it a fair bit, keep in touch with the locals, take him down home made jam, use local hotels etc. Plus I give the farmer my modest EU subsidy every year and let him graze his beasts on the land, in return he makes sure no travellers or other wrong 'uns invade and it keeps the gorse and rough grass at a manageable level, good old boy even fenced and gated the whole thing for us few years back.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

I'm not particularly well travelled, but of the places I have visited Corsica would be my choice.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Winter - Coff's Harbour, NSW, Aus
Spring - Algarve
Summer - Arundel
Autumn - Greek Islands

 

[The Grockle]

I've had the land for a while now and visit it a fair bit, keep in touch with the locals, take him down home made jam, use local hotels etc. Plus I give the farmer my modest EU subsidy every year and let him graze his beasts on the land, in return he makes sure no travellers or other wrong 'uns invade and it keeps the gorse and rough grass at a manageable level, good old boy even fenced and gated the whole thing for us few years back.

Best of luck, sounds like you could have a cracking little set up down there soon enough.

 

[jimhigham]

I've clocked up just over 30 countries and seen some glorious places but there is really nowhere else I would rather live than Brighton. I just adore the feel of the city and it always makes me smile when I am there. It's a shame that I have never had the opportunity to live there. Life just kind of dragged me off in another direction and here I am in Surrey (which is also very pleasant but hardly in the same ballpark).

 

[Nibble]

Best of luck, sounds like you could have a cracking little set up down there soon enough.

Thanks mate, it's what I'm working toward

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Both full of Albanians, women with tashes and black dust everywhere

I am not saying that it is not true but I have never seen Santorini descibed like that before.
It is a must visit place but only for 2 days to visit the 2 towns at sunset.
Probably my least favourite Island apart from the sunsets.
luckily you can jump on the Ios Express and go to Ios, Paros or Mykonos.

 

[Weststander]

yes that's 3 of the things.

Thought so. Know quite a few blokes who once they got over 40-ish or more, and found themselves still single or divorced, moved on to Thai, Filipino or East European females.
Informed everyone that the reasons were: "British women think they are better than they are eg in terms of their attractiveness, and you get a loyal, much younger and 'willing' partner from those other locations".

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Thought so. Know quite a few blokes who once they got over 40-ish or more, and found themselves still single or divorced, moved on to Thai, Filipino or East European females.
Informed everyone that the reasons were: "British women think they are better than they are eg in terms of their attractiveness, and you get a loyal, much younger and 'willing' partner from those other locations".

How right you are this subject is a whole new thread on its own.
I was lucky enough to get it right first time around 14 years ago and married a totally westernised very intelligent and beautiful Sri Lankan (tamil) filly.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Thought so. Know quite a few blokes who once they got over 40-ish or more, and found themselves still single or divorced, moved on to Thai, Filipino or East European females.
Informed everyone that the reasons were: "British women think they are better than they are eg in terms of their attractiveness, and you get a loyal, much younger and 'willing' partner from those other locations".

Yep spot on.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

I am not saying that it is not true but I have never seen Santorini descibed like that before.
It is a must visit place but only for 2 days to visit the 2 towns at sunset.
Probably my least favourite Island apart from the sunsets.
luckily you can jump on the Ios Express and go to Ios, Paros or Mykonos.

I was just being a smart arse, having been to the classy resorts of Ipsos (Corfu) kardemana (kos) and Faliraki (God knows where that is!) I very much enjoyed the football shirt free resorts of Santorini

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I was just being a smart arse, having been to the classy resorts of Ipsos (Corfu) kardemana (kos) and Faliraki (God knows where that is!) I very much enjoyed the football shirt free resorts of Santorini

Good point. I have been to many Greek Islands but always avoided the places you mentioned so i was not considering them. You could add Malia (Crete) to that list too.
Very dissapointed to see Kardemana on your list. I had a holiday there with mates donkeys years ago and whilst not being very beautiful boy did I have a good time. It was quite a small place with a few bars and 1 disco.
Probably the best of the largest resorts I have visited was Agios Nickolaos many years ago, it was so good I lived and worked there the following year. Great place I really hope that it has not gone down the pan as well.
My favourites are still The Cyclades especially the ones that are tricky to get to.
For all you youngsters out there try island hopping the Cyclades for your hols and go in June when the young Scandinavians and students go, you will not be dissapointed and if you can survive Ios then you have done very well.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Good point. I have been to many Greek Islands but always avoided the places you mentioned so i was not considering them. You could add Malia (Crete) to that list too.
Very dissapointed to see Kardemana on your list. I had a holiday there with mates donkeys years ago and whilst not being very beautiful boy did I have a good time. It was quite a small place with a few bars and 1 disco.
Probably the best of the largest resorts I have visited was Agios Nickolaos many years ago, it was so good I lived and worked there the following year. Great place I really hope that it has not gone down the pan as well.
My favourites are still The Cyclades especially the ones that are tricky to get to.
For all you youngsters out there try island hopping the Cyclades for your hols and go in June when the young Scandinavians and students go, you will not be dissapointed and if you can survive Ios then you have done very well.

I've always had a great time on holiday, Kardamina 97 was one of the best for a laugh I'm sill in touch with kostas and Ilias that owned the Stone Roses bar.

But now with a 5 year old, the Spanish Islands are fine.

As someone mentioned earlier though, this is not so much as where you'd live but where you had a great hol. I mean I love Varadaro beach as it was in 1994, I also really loved Goa and Koh Samui, but as I said previously if money was no object I'd still end "living" within about 20 miles of where I am now

 

[desprateseagull]

Brighton. Can someone drag it down to the Med, for winter though..?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Brighton. Can someone drag it down to the Med, for winter though..?

Brighton, on the med, Barcelona?

 

[W.C.]

Would love to move back to Brighton. No idea what I'd do for a living if I did though.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Would love to move back to Brighton. No idea what I'd do for a living if I did though.

Manage a Tesco Express, bespoke Coffee House or start up a software house specialising in key word advertising. We don't actually need any more of them but it doesn't stop them popping up like zits on a sweaty teenager.