Alder doesn't give up much detail from where I'm standing, so I'll be straight with you rather than pad this out with guesswork. What's known is the setting: this is a locality within West Devon, in the South West, which puts it in gently-priced, lower-density territory by national standards — the region as a whole runs older (a median age around 44) and greener than most of England, with house prices that track close to the national picture rather than London-style extremes. West Devon itself has a median house price around £295,000, and the wider region sits a touch above that at £305,000 — so if Alder follows the pattern of its parent district, you're looking at a market that's neither cheap nor sharp-elbowed, the kind of place where a semi-detached or detached house is the norm rather than the exception, typical of this part of Devon. Beyond that, I don't have the specifics on Alder itself — no figures on its schools, its crime patterns, its transport links, or its own house prices distinct from the district around it. Rather than invent a character for it, it's fairer to say: this is a place best understood by looking closer at what West Devon offers, since Alder's own numbers aren't in front of me. If you're weighing up a move, I'd want the local detail — the school Ofsted ratings, the station options, the actual sale prices on nearby streets — before forming a real view of whether you'd settle in and stay.