dilemmas thrown up by moving house (absurd division)

( If you could pack up and move your whole life, where would you go? )

In answer to yr questions

i and ii: London became expensive and I got old… obviously during lockdown I was barely going out and seeing people anyway, and I realised that (a) I am reasonably comfortable with my own solo company most of the day; except for a tiny number of v short projects I haven't worked in an office since 2014 and didn't really miss it and (b) the work I do now (editorial consultancy on books rather than subbing magazines) I can basically do from anywhere that has the internet.

So why not move somewhere much cheaper and carry on as I am into retirement…

How did I choose where? First of all I was like, I can go anywhere! But that was much too much choice and my brain froze up. And then -- based almost on random searching* -- I realised I very much liked the idea of a town by the sea, with old stone quaysides. I know a few ppl in Plymouth; I did some work here a few years back and enjoyed the visit. It's only a few hours from London and the train journey isn't complicated (the way trains to most of Wales are complicated, for example; another early possibility). It's a city with a university but it's not fancy…

*was it random or was it meant to be? i happening on milford haven via GiS, a place I haven't thought abt since the 2 or 3 weeks we did OIL in geography when i was like 10. It's not far from where my sister sometimes goes on holiday, plus I think I was browsing pictures of stack rock fort and being deliberately unrealistic: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stack-rock-fort

https://i0.wp.com/thewanderingquinn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Stackrock-Fort.jpg

thanks