Soooo. Me and my husband have form for very last minute plans in life. We have gained and lost from this attitude but overall it keeps life interesting...
The current life plan is to sell our house asap and move to London along with dd who will be going into year 1 in September.
We are currently in a commuter town in Essex and have grown tired of its TOWIE ways and the fact we fit in so well.
The problem we’ve found is our budget isn’t very good for London. £700k tops and the most difficult thing that we’re finding is finding a school that doesn’t look like dd should still be an egg before we apply.
We aren’t too fussed about a fancy property on the basis we are hoping to end up living somewhere way more interesting than where we currently do ( currently a completely non diverse area that everyone’s lived here forever kind of thing).
Can anyone suggest the lovely areas they live in /dream of. We could potentially afford more if I worked but I am still trying to figure a way of working and the need to support my even more disorganised h who often forgets to mention he’s in say New York tomorrow for a week (I don’t really mind that overall as his travel is normally booked 24 hours in advance anyway)
We need to be within an hour tops of London (he’s in the city now but anywhere in London is good as can always move jobs) more ideally 45 mins or less with some kind of good school nearby. Dd is in private school at the moment, wouldn’t say no to state but think it’s easier to move private at this stage rather than worry about catchment areas.
Phew long post, apologies.
Help my rather scatty family move please! Or maybe mention we should probably plan this better...
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airyfairyland · 13/04/2018 18:25
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