hi dave its not a case of being miserable in my case its a case of getting away from the rat race and living in the part of the country that I love I'm about 40 minuets by train from brum center and wife and I go in to brum a lot of folk go to the sea side to live not me it seems to me that's what a lot of brum folk do it helps to make room for other folk to take your place
now if you went to a town called Weston super mare that's about 90 miles south of brum you will find 1000s of folk who have hit 65 sold up and moved to Weston in fact a lot of folk call it brum by the sea for some its fulfilling a dream I have friends who live there and would not move back to brum
Hi Roy, yes I understand, I guess where I lived at West Heath that it was on the outskirts of Birmingham, my Mum was born in Stirchley and lived in Bournville and Cotteridge, my Dad was born at Bethnal Green London, I well remember Weston as we used to visit quite often, I remember it used to be called Weston Super Mud, I guess I was lucky as we spent many holidays on the South Coast, Somerset and Wales, I can understand why people would want to live in rural areas of England, I think its memories of the day outs to the Cotswolds, Malvern Elan Valley and holidays at Lyme Regis, Beer, Brighton, Skegness and Blackpool plus many others that make me wonder why my Father ever wanted to leave England.