But yes, living in the westcountry gives you in many ways the worst of everything; you get ignored, the north thinks you're south, the SE thinks you're quaint and the jobs think to go somewhere with infrastructure.
More or less. Devon is crap for roads. Cornwall is even worse. Actually, I find much of the south coast is. Say you want to go from Plymouth/Exeter to somewhere on the south coast further east, you have to go well inland and back out again for a lot of the sensible routes.
Somerset is fine, though. It doesn't need roads, it has cider.
As an aside, when my employer was looking, some years ago, to establish an office outside London, the major criteria were being near a proper airport and decent rail/road links. Which wipes out most of the southwest, unless you count "Bristol" airport (which you couldn't really at the time) or Plymouth (which isn't usually worth counting). Ex's father used to try to fly into Plymouth after a long-haul flight to Heathrow. It was never once running, and he always got a (paid for by BA) taxi.
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But yes, living in the westcountry gives you in many ways the worst of everything; you get ignored, the north thinks you're south, the SE thinks you're quaint and the jobs think to go somewhere with infrastructure.
More or less. Devon is crap for roads. Cornwall is even worse. Actually, I find much of the south coast is. Say you want to go from Plymouth/Exeter to somewhere on the south coast further east, you have to go well inland and back out again for a lot of the sensible routes.
Somerset is fine, though. It doesn't need roads, it has cider.
As an aside, when my employer was looking, some years ago, to establish an office outside London, the major criteria were being near a proper airport and decent rail/road links. Which wipes out most of the southwest, unless you count "Bristol" airport (which you couldn't really at the time) or Plymouth (which isn't usually worth counting). Ex's father used to try to fly into Plymouth after a long-haul flight to Heathrow. It was never once running, and he always got a (paid for by BA) taxi.