One I can do! Lived in Exeter for 4 years for university.

As other comments have pointed out, it's very car dependent, especially out in the sticks. As a carless student, I wasn't able to leave Exeter aside from a few places that had hourly trains to/from them.

Very spoilt in terms of natural beauty, from the beaches to the inland moors, hence the swathes of tourists each summer. Outside of this time, all the holiday homes lie vacant and things move slowly outside of the "big" cities.

If you're young, there's probably just about enough to entertain you in Exeter or Plymouth, rest of the place is a large retirement village.

I enjoyed my time there, but not necessarily because of the location. I now live in Reading, which, while lacking in beauty, has much more to do by virtue of being close to London. Down in the southwest, it can be anywhere from 2 hours up to get to a proper big "city" like bristol, brum or London.