It's not all pasties, clotted cream and sunny beaches.
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We get the worst of the weather first
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- chucked it down all weekend.
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Being so close to the sea it just never gets very hot
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(low 20s is a good day) but I only had to scrape my car twice this winter.
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Summers can be a pain with tourists driving all over the place but most of the year the roads are a dream.
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I can safely say that after doing my time in the South East
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(Surrey, Sussex
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& Kent) and commuting the M25.
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I've lived all over the UK and can say that there are lots of places just as nice.
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Cornwall is a bit behind the times and most of the time that's ideal.
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We didn't even have a KFC when I first moved down 12 years ago.
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Now we have Costa, Subway, McDs, etc everywhere, so much so that pasty sales are declining.
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The modern world is now catching up quickly.
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It all depends on what you value in life.
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It's a hard place to earn a good living and a place is only as good as the friends you make in the area.
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