Property News · March 2, 2018

Let’s move to Exeter, Devon: a city whose time has finally come


What gifts it has: beaches, hills, wilderness, astonishing food and hobbity old pubs, medieval gothic townhouses, proper coffee at last!What’s going for it? Exeter’s had a rum old 75 years. First it was the Nazis, raining bombs. Then the town planners and property developers, rebuilding it in the most magnolia of modernisms, unwonking its wonky lines. The next misfortune arrived in the avuncular guise of Bill Bryson who, in his 1995 bestseller Notes From A Small Island, damned Exeter with the faintest of praise: “not an easy place to love” (Bill could make or break a place back then). A decade later, the city won Clone Town of the Year. Hold up, isn’t this the part where I’m meant to tell you the good bits? Well, the happy ending is that Exeter is beginning to wise up. So it should. What gifts this city has: surrounded by beaches, hills, wilderness, astonishing food producers and hobbity old country pubs; a cityscape of medieval gothic and Georgian townhouses; the Exeter Chiefs; proper coffee at last! It’s not suddenly turned into Devon’s Berlin or Brooklyn, but it is getting an air of confidence. And a branch of Ikea.The case against Great progress, but still a way to go. It needs to capitalise further on its distinctive identity and the riches around and within it. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
Read more…Let’s move to Exeter, Devon: a city whose time has finally come

You may also like...