Any Devonians??

theworriedwell

Well that's interesting. I'm not allowed to hate where I live. That's fascinating.

Oh, didn't see it!

What did you say?
(Best not repeat it!)

How odd! Were you given an explanation? I saw your message and it was hardly a personal attack.Some of us like where we live, some of us tolerate it and others find it difficult .

I just said I'd need to know where you live to do a swap. Explained what I hate about living here, no lies the plain truth and what if like eg theatres museums art galleries.

Presumably a Devonian didnt like it. Proves my point. I daresay this will be deleted as well so I think I'll ask them to delete my account, I think it's taking censorship too far.

Greenfinch

How odd! Were you given an explanation? I saw your message and it was hardly a personal attack.Some of us like where we live, some of us tolerate it and others find it difficult .

Thanks, it wasn't personal just my experience of small town life after a big city.

Just checked my emails, no explanation. Don't suppose anyone has got the integrity to explain why they reported it? The truth hurts doesn't it.

Precisely! I don’t much like where we live( though it is supposed to be one of the best places in the country to live ) but we tolerate it because we have family all around. Sorry folks ,I have hi- jacked the thread. Back to Devon.

Presumably a Devonian didnt like it. Proves my point.
I hope you're not implying one of us Devonians on this thread reported your post.

MartavTaurus

^Presumably a Devonian didnt like it. Proves my point.^
I hope you're not implying one of us Devonians on this thread reported your post.

Someone reported it. Might be someone who hasn't posted but it is someone.

theworriedwell

I just said I'd need to know where you live to do a swap. Explained what I hate about living here, no lies the plain truth and what if like eg theatres museums art galleries.

Presumably a Devonian didnt like it. Proves my point. I daresay this will be deleted as well so I think I'll ask them to delete my account, I think it's taking censorship too far.

Well, we've got a museum ! 😀

I'm not Devonian but did live there for years and was sorry when we left, mind you, it's a big County, cities, villages, a variety of scenery.
Sorry you don't like it there.

theworriedwell

MartavTaurus

Presumably a Devonian didnt like it. Proves my point.
I hope you're not implying one of us Devonians on this thread reported your post.

Someone reported it. Might be someone who hasn't posted but it is someone.

Could be a lurker?

Greenfinch

Precisely! I don’t much like where we live( though it is supposed to be one of the best places in the country to live ) but we tolerate it because we have family all around. Sorry folks ,I have hi- jacked the thread. Back to Devon.

Yes I understand that. Living here was ok when all my children were here. They have all gone to uni and not come back, staying in uni city or another big city for job opportunities. Most of their childhood friends have done the same. I can only think of one who has stayed, bought a house and settled here.

Allira a museum is a good start.

DS was schooled in Devon, went to uni, then came back to Devon. He found a job in the county capital which takes him worldwide and is a high earner. DD2 was schooled in Devon, headed to London for a while, but returned to Devon and runs her own successful business. Some of their friends, 30s - 40s, are scattered, others returned here and now work in law, meteorology, finance.

We have museums, one won the UK Museum of the Year award. We have theatres, we have sports centres, we have concert venues, we have exhibitions, we have posh restaurants like Michael Caines and Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall etc etc.

Sorry to sound like a flipping guide book to the county, but there is so much on offer.

MartavTaurus

DS was schooled in Devon, went to uni, then came back to Devon. He found a job in the county capital which takes him worldwide and is a high earner. DD2 was schooled in Devon, headed to London for a while, but returned to Devon and runs her own successful business. Some of their friends, 30s - 40s, are scattered, others returned here and now work in law, meteorology, finance.

We have museums, one won the UK Museum of the Year award. We have theatres, we have sports centres, we have concert venues, we have exhibitions, we have posh restaurants like Michael Caines and Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall etc etc.

Sorry to sound like a flipping guide book to the county, but there is so much on offer.

Saying what's available in a whole county is not the same as what is available in a city. I can't just hop on a bus for ten minutes and be at the vast majority those things. My town doesn't have a museum, the old theatre is used for amateur stuff, no concert halls, no posh restaurants. We do have a leisure centre but for various reasons I catch a train and bus to visit a different one.

You know young people who came back, my experience of 30-40 year olds is that the majority don't.

Our hospital has some beds which are for elderly people when moved when they need beds at the general hospital in another town.

Due to a new housing development being built we now have a bus service in walking distance but it only takes you to the town centre where you can get a bus to one Devon city or a bus to a bigger town where you can get a bus to another Devon city. It can take two hours so not comparable to living in a big city.

Then there's July and August when traffic doesn't move.

I didnt see the post concerned - but work on a policy of only reporting posts that anyone could see need reporting (ie I've never reported one yet).

Who knows who does this sometimes and I've found I've been told off for breaking rules - when I was (finally) told what rule I'd been deemed to have broken and I couldnt find any such rule. So still a mystery to me.

You can be left thinking "How can I avoid someone's personal bias - when I don't even know they have that bias?".....blowed if I know....

Saying what's available in a whole county is not the same as what is available in a city.
Shame you're not in East Devon. I'm not in a city either, quite the opposite, but I'm about 10 miles from ALL the things mentioned.

MartavTaurus

^Saying what's available in a whole county is not the same as what is available in a city.^
Shame you're not in East Devon. I'm not in a city either, quite the opposite, but I'm about 10 miles from ALL the things mentioned.

But you do realise that doesn't represent the whole of Devon. I honestly don't know a museum in Devon that compares to museums like any of the multiple museums in London for example.

Oh, and I forgot, an airport on the doorstep, also trains to London, an NHS diagnostic centre. That's why we chose to live here, away from the cities, but the best of all worlds.

I was born in Devon - Newton Abbot to be exact. My brother was born in Exeter. Our parents emigrated in ‘58 to NZ. I had just begun school at Tedburn St Mary, perhaps some of you know the area? My parents went back to visit in the 70’s and my brother about 10 years ago. I listened to their stories with great interest.

I have not made the journey back and suspect now I won’t. I’ve often wondered over the years about life in Newton Abbot. Do any of you know the town, I’d love to know a little about it.

MartavTaurus

Oh, and I forgot, an airport on the doorstep, also trains to London, an NHS diagnostic centre. That's why we chose to live here, away from the cities, but the best of all worlds.

For you. Is it so hard to believe that it isn't for everyone? Are you sure you're within ten miles of Michael Caine's and Hugh FW restaurants. Can't quite see that on my map. Or have they opened more than one?

The trains are certainly cheap, my regular weekly trip is so often cancelled or late that I was doing delay repay weekly in December. Sometimes out and return were both affected.

Michael Caines in Lympstone, HFW collaborates with Darts Farm on the Exe Estuary and runs courses, Mark Hix and Mitch Tonks too.

I'm a Londoner, I've been to lots of museums, art galleries, and theatres in the city and eaten in many top restaurants (DH connections). I agree, it's different all over, but I've always found the best of all possible worlds wherever I live, even abroad.

Anyway, time for me to be off for walk and coffee at a Mill mentioned in The Doomsday Book, though no doom and gloom on my part!

MartavTaurus

Oh, and I forgot, an airport on the doorstep, also trains to London, an NHS diagnostic centre. That's why we chose to live here, away from the cities, but the best of all worlds.

That was one of my downsides - ie the airport. I remember when it was a tiny little regional airport - but it expanded...and I was crossing my fingers every time I saw any signs it might close.

I got rather fed-up with being woken up by a plane going pretty much overhead at around 6 a.m. and knowing there were a couple of suitable areas for me that had been made unsuitable by being even more bothered by planes. I came to the conclusion that I couldnt figure out how much longer it would be before the airport closed. It was really disheartening when I was in some nice countryside a couple of miles out and someone commented how nice it was that there were no planes flying around overhead for a couple of days - and then went straight on to talk about her next holiday overseas coming up!!!! I don't think she could see the two things were inconsistent...

Though, goodness knows, I remember years back going on a demonstration against a new Heathrow runway up at that area and I was horrified just how many planes they'd already got going overhead and just how low over houses they flew. Such a shame - as it was quite a nice little village we were walking through - until yet another plane flew overhead.

So - yep....I wanted/want that airport gone. One of the downsides...

denbylover

I was born in Devon - Newton Abbot to be exact. My brother was born in Exeter. Our parents emigrated in ‘58 to NZ. I had just begun school at Tedburn St Mary, perhaps some of you know the area? My parents went back to visit in the 70’s and my brother about 10 years ago. I listened to their stories with great interest.

I have not made the journey back and suspect now I won’t. I’ve often wondered over the years about life in Newton Abbot. Do any of you know the town, I’d love to know a little about it.

Newton Abbot is a town I only basically went through on a bus en route to Totnes.

So I really only knew that Totnesians/would-be Totnesians that can't afford Totnes would often buy in Newton Abbot instead (so that they were as near as they could be to their chosen destination).

Told me all I need to know about Totnes houseprices when I went in quite some years ago now into a Totnes estate agent to check out whether I could afford it and in comes a man full of himself loudly telling the estate agent that he was looking for places up to around £1 million or so!!! Cue for me thinking "I'm hardly a scruffbag for you to have made sure I was one of the people you wanted to hear you.....grr".

MartavTaurus

Michael Caines in Lympstone, HFW collaborates with Darts Farm on the Exe Estuary and runs courses, Mark Hix and Mitch Tonks too.

I'm a Londoner, I've been to lots of museums, art galleries, and theatres in the city and eaten in many top restaurants (DH connections). I agree, it's different all over, but I've always found the best of all possible worlds wherever I live, even abroad.

Anyway, time for me to be off for walk and coffee at a Mill mentioned in The Doomsday Book, though no doom and gloom on my part!

Oh when you said his restaurant I thought that's what you meant, Darts Farm is OK but not exactly a top restaurant.

Darts Farm is the nicest/biggest farm shop I've been to personally and was a plus side to me. Re Michael Caines and Lympstone and I checked out that place one time when I wanted to go back on a "home visit" and, as I recall, it was around £400 per night to stay there!!!! Cue for me changing my mind and deciding to stay elsewhere at around £100 per night. Though I'm obviously (I would have thought) not from a bad background (even if you don't hear my accentless voice) I'd got visions of maybe having someone "look down their nose" at me mentally willing me out of the door - it's only happened a few times (ie in posh London hotels the boyfriend of the time was paying for way back when and only a couple of times back in Devon) I didn't want to risk those sort of "looks" - as I've not figured out appropriate response to them yet.

I've not forgotten when Princesshay Shopping Centre in Exeter got replaced and so I was there having my look-around the shops to check them out when they opened. Cue for a man the other side of the shop loudly making comments to the shop assistant about "The locals coming in here....!!!!!" in a tone of disapproval. Thanks a lot mate - as I was the only one in the shop at the time - but I had no intention of paying £900 (over 10 years ago) for an "occasion coat - once seen/never forgotten" anyway. Some of the clothes in those shops were rather dear just after they opened.