The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

I moved to North Devon 10 years before I retired. Worked out well. Plenty of time to get to know the area and people.
Too many folk move when they retire and then feel like a fish out of water.

This is the main reason I feel I should remain here. All the facilities I need as I get older and know pretty much everyone in the street to talk to...many of who would help you out. It is now around 37 years since I left the village I grew up in and would only know a few people now plus there is only one Nisa store so you have to travel for proper shopping.

 

[postman]

Will leave here in a box.Lovely street,good neighbours and we face a small woodland,so no facing neighbours.It's a crescent will little traffic.Yet we are mins away from the main road bus stop.Twenty mins walk from a Sainsbugs,Fifteen from an Aldi and Waitrose.Good selection of shops cafes bars.All in all a great place.

 

[classic33]

14 yes 14, the amount of mini Choco Weetabix in a portion, just weighed one to check

What were weight

 

[classic33]

Shows you just how small the populations in towns in Powys are. In Mach there are only 2,000 people. In the whole of Powys there are only about 120,000 people.

Officially it's 6,192, as of June last year.

HSBC bank is built on the site of the birthplace of Robert Owen.

 

[classic33]

The only thing in my place that is bare is me

No more bare ceiling?

 

[Tenkaykev]

I moved to Poole in '78. It was on a whim. I was working at an electrical engineering firm just on the outskirts of Birmingham City centre. Waiting to clock off after my late shift and one of the lads said " there's your job here Kev" and pointed to a job vacancy on the South Coast.
When I got home I looked up Poole in my school atlas and decided to apply for the job.

Although Mrs Tenkay is minded to move to Edinburgh, I like it around here. We're close to Coast and country, there's lots of shops plus a rail link, and the climate is mild. One of the sons and his wife want to move back from London so there'll be more local family ties.
There's more icing on the cake in that I have a mate who works in the Funeral Directors which is just up the road. He's promised Mrs Tenkay " mates rates" when I pop my clogs ( he said he'd already measured me up) 😁

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm sat in Wedges in the Earlswood Plant Centre with coffee and a tea cake, Its been a cold hard ride out.

 

[classic33]

An awful lot of refugees/escapees from Birmingham on here, now living elsewhere. Wonder if a name change was involved to avoid detection on the way out.

 

[welsh dragon]

Officially it's 6,192, as of June last year.

HSBC bank is built on the site of the birthplace of Robert Owen.

That is the whole sy20 postcode. It covers a wide area. In mach itself there are just over 2000

 

[welsh dragon]

We moved here just over 20 years ago to get away from the rat race. And as a place to retire to. There is no way I would go back to Birmingham. I'd rather live in a tent

 

[welsh dragon]

I have returned from the metropolis of Newtown. Quite quiet considering we will be in lockdown for 2 weeks from Friday, which is ridiculous I an area like this where there are hardly any people. A lot of people will lose their jobs because of it.

 

[classic33]

I have returned from the metropolis of Newtown. Quite quiet considering we will be in lockdown for 2 weeks from Friday, which is ridiculous I an area like this where there are hardly any people. A lot of people will lose their jobs because of it.

Six people per square kilometre.

Schools close on Friday. Shops may shut, hope you got enough shopping in.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Officially it's 6,192, as of June last year.

HSBC bank is built on the site of the birthplace of Robert Owen.

Is that the Robert Owen as in New Lanark ?

 

[Dave7]

10,780.

So, assuming you are not winding me up, they declared it an actual new town in 1967 but the population hardly moved.
I wonder if that's when Welshie moved there so everybody moved out

 

[classic33]

Is that the Robert Owen as in New Lanark ?

One and the same. You know him?