A Weekend Guide to the Coastal Towns Everyone Is Moving To

The train empties at the coast on a Friday evening and fills again on Sunday night, and somewhere in between a lot of people quietly decide to stay.

What draws them is not the sea alone. It is a working high street: a bookshop, two record shops, a cinema run by volunteers and rents that a small business can survive.

Locals are candid about the strain. Housing that was affordable five years ago is not, and the seasonal economy still leaves a hard winter.

Go for a weekend, spend money in the independents, and take the last train back. That is the version everyone can agree on.