Time to pick the collective brains of NSC. We currently live in Hassocks - lots we like about it, short walk to shops, station, easy access to Brighton and The Amex but.....we are early retired, late 50's who had a plan to travel a lot over the next few years. Covid has put a bit of a stop on that for a while and possibly longer. During the lockdown period we've been rethinking what we want to do with the next few years and where we want to be. Our consensus is we'd ideally like to stay in Sussex but in a house with more land so that we can get stuck into it as a project (ours is a relative new build with a corresponding tiny garden) and away from estates that attract young families (we are gradually getting more intolerant of kids noise!). Ideally close to the coast but happy to move further inland for the right place, content to be further away from the railway than now. Budget is going to be around £600k so it rules out some of the more "exclusive" villages. Also would consider crossing the border to a neighbouring county - most likely Hampshire as we have kids in Southampton.
