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What's the weather like to live with outside the SE? (1st world problem)

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What's it like living in the Welsh or SW English countryside (especially with respect to the weather)? I was raised in Australia, so don't really have a "feel" for the UK climate outside of London (and some remote parts of Scotland).

I want to move out of the SE and find a secluded/quiet/neighbour-free house with lots of trees. Where should I go?

I like Wales and the Welsh and it seems to be the only place in the South where you can live amongst trees (well at my budget anyway). I'm quite waterproof, but she who must be obeyed is concerned about the weather in Wales - particularly the amount of rain... most months have >1mm rain for ~15 days! How does it affect your life?

Similarly she is reluctant to go past say Sheffield to the North due to the temperature.

I've been checking out the UK climate maps, and Wales seems to have a similar amount of rain as Devon & Cornwall (home to the optimistically named "English Riviera"!?).

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  • I have been to Ipswich once, by mistake, because I overshot Norwich. It was about 20 years ago, so no doubt it's different now. But back then it was awful. The whole town was one huge traffic jam, all roads in and out blocked by cars (and it was only around 2pm). Are there any areas in the UK that are not full of people now? The population (as far as they know) is just under 68 million. That's more than twice as large as the population a little over 100 years ago (1920, population just over 30 million).

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  • I have been to Ipswich once, by mistake, because I overshot Norwich. It was about 20 years ago, so no doubt it's different now. But back then it was awful. The whole town was one huge traffic jam, all roads in and out blocked by cars (and it was only around 2pm). Are there any areas in the UK that are not full of people now? The population (as far as they know) is just under 68 million. That's more than twice as large as the population a little over 100 years ago (1920, population just over 30 million).

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