Paignton

Paignton is what Torquay would look like if it stopped trying. The English Riviera branding gets applied to the whole bay, but only one of the three towns has to work for it, and Paignton has spent a century declining to bother. This is a place whose defining civic achievement is a pudding so large that serving it caused a riot, which tells you roughly everything about the local relationship between ambition and follow-through. Buyers who arrive expecting a resort find a town that quietly stopped performing for visitors and got on with living, and most of them end up preferring it.