Seahouses reads as fishing village first, tourist harbour second — a huddle of stone cottages and B&Bs around a working harbour, boats still landing crab and lobster alongside the ice-cream shops and gift-window trade that fill up through the summer months. It's the kind of place where the high street visibly switches character with the season, and where you'll spot as many walking boots and binoculars (the Farne Islands boat trips leave from here) as prams. Beyond that character sketch, this is a place where the detail thins out fast. There's no reliable local read on schools, transport links, crime figures, or health provision for the village itself, so rather than guess at a commute or a school run that isn't in front of me, it's more honest to say: those are exactly the questions to put to a local agent or the county council before you commit, because Seahouses proper doesn't give itself away on paper the way the seafront does in person. What the wider numbers do tell a story about is money and housing. Northumberland's typical house price sits around £190,000, well under the national median of £281,000 — but Seahouses, as a small coastal draw with holiday-let and second-home demand layered on top of local buying, will not behave like the county average; coastal villages like this routinely price well above their hinterland, and it's a fair bet that a cottage near the harbour costs more than the Northumberland figure suggests. That gap between "what the county costs" and "what the postcode costs" is the single most important thing to check before assuming affordability here. Who tends to end up in Seahouses is easier to picture than to prove: retirees and second-homers drawn by the coastline and the Farnes, business owners running the seasonal trade, and a smaller core of year-round residents who accept that the village empties out and quietens considerably once the visitors leave. Whether you'd regret living here depends less on any figure above and more on a question the data can't answer — whether you want your daily life to run alongside a tourist economy, quiet for half the year and full to the seams for the other half. Visit in both moods before you decide.