I am looking for the best wallet to safely store my bitcoin for the next lot of years (who knows how long) is bitcoin core a safe place to do this or should i look at others?
Bitcoin core is fine as long as you never go to any websites that could potentially give you a virus (in fact keep the computer off of the internet as much as possible) and you make sure to back up your wallet multiple times before doing anything with it.
Core is a good wallet overall imo.