James in devon
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Hi Thom.
The quick answer is no. As others have said, some places (Padstow, St. Ives) can be very expensive to buy property, but general costs are much the same as anywhere. Water costs are high, due to cleaning up the sewage going to sea over the last couple of decades. Although I'm currently just over the Tamar, I spend a lot of time in Cornwall and there is so much going on there compared to before I moved to Oz in 2004, much of it FOC. All you have to do is get National Trust membership and you can park at loads of beauty spots and visit great gardens with no more cost.
The big supermarkets are everywhere as are the discount shops, but equally there are now high end shopping and eateries. Also, delivery from Amazon is still the same! It's difficult to overstate the change internet shopping has on remoter places without big cities.
The big problem for Cornwall has always been low wages, which you don't have to worry about.
Cornwall, expensive?
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Not sure your health would benefit much from that. I try and limit myself to one every couple of weeks, but it's difficult with a Warrens in walking distance. The joys of being back.