:hehe: Fair point.
I've been to both. Margate is awash with asylum seekers and an utter kip.
Cornwall is beautiful, remote, wild and marvellous.
The only bits of London that are inhabitable are by their nature gentrified. The rest is a fùcking jungle.
No, I think if you believed that, you'd have two or three kids by this time. As it is, you understand fully well that introducing youngsters into such places would reflect poorly on you. So you don't.
Just guessing, of course; I've no idea of your circumstances.
You're lucky actually. When we went to look at schools, having done fairly extensive research, you know; character, spirit, essence and a' that rot, the wife made her choice based on the fact that there were Louis Vuitton and Armani stores nearby and a glitzy hotel next door :-|