Where is cheapish to live ,and really nice, what is it like where you live?

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We have £300,000,.to buy a property outright ...but we need five bedrooms ,as adult children still live at home ,(and 2 with SEN will never leave home )
This whole virus has made us think life is to short to be squashed in to a to small house ,in an expensive area.
But ..no idea where to start looking .
We would consider anywhere ,..we love the sea ..we were thinking wales .any ideas?

South Wales near Cardiff is a lovely area to live. We have sen adult kids too that still live at home and have huge rooms with their own sofas and TVs. So we all have our own space. We are a 25 mins drive to the coast and about 10 miles north of Cardiff. We love living around here and have great views from the house.

Cherrybakewell 09.11

York & Harrogate for £300,000 to buy 5 bedroom outright, I don't think so.

Be a bit careful with Ribble Valley (Lancashire) as parts of it flood. You’d be fine on higher ground though! Building new houses on flood plains is never a great idea.

I live in a village on the Derbyshire/Notts border and it’s lovely. Housing is affordable, transport links good (train station not far away plus regular buses in Derby and Nottingham), good schools, fantastic community and plenty of nice shops. My house is a 3 bed semi with off road parking and is worth about £170k so for £300k you’d get something really nice I the East Midlands.

NW Lancashire in general!

Some lovely country areas that don't come with the hefty price tag but have everything on the doorstep - the Lakes, Liverpool, Manchester etc, some lovely nature areas!

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55308894.html

Close to the sea and loads of room

Whitley Bay and surrounding areas. Beach on one side, Newcastle city centre on the other, Scotland up the road and into London in under 3 hours on the train. Why wouldn’t you live there?

Redcar is only about 10 minutes from Saltburn which is lovely

Lincolnshire is very cheap, also Leicestershire, anywhere around there.

Have you tried the BBC where can I afford to live search. You can only go up to 4 bedrooms but might give you some ideas, darker blue is most affordable, red too expensive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23234033?app=news.business.story.23234033.page

Just look more northern. Some amazing places and considerably cheaper

£300,000 will not get you a 5 bedroom house in York or Harrogate!! A 2 bedroom terrace maybe, Do people only think London has expensive houses?

I’d love to live in Scotland. Currently live in the South East, grew up in Lincolnshire, went to university in the North East and know the North West very, very well.

I’d still happily skip over all of that to live in rural Scotland!

Your choice is endless and the answer is almost everywhere outside London/SE, although probably not York or Harrogate ironically.

There are 146 houses within 10 miles of Leeds for sale on rightmove with at least 5 bedrooms for under £325k - I've assumed that some at this price range will take offers. The cheapest one is under £100k.

Many you probably wouldn't want to live in, will need work, in poor areas, bedrooms very small, you do not say if there are any accessibility issues that need accomodating.

But a lot of them will be in nice areas with sufficient space for your family.

Leeds is a great city to live in - access to great countryside, city parks, lots going on, good shopping, museums and galleries, coast easily accessible, good motorway access to rest of country, on East Coast main line, although expensive to use if you don't book far ahead.

Do the children need frequent medical care? In which case forget Shropshire. It's miles and miles of bad roads to poorly run hospitals.

£290k for 5 bed detached in Harrogate.

I don't know Harrogate well enough to know what could be the catch here, but it seems OK to me.

Troon Ayrshire

Monkseaton, west monkseaton, parts of North shields. All 5 - 10 mins car to great beaches or metro easy enough 20 ish mins into Newcastle.

But those 'amazing' places in the north are still a lot more expensive funnily enough, though not london prices admittedly. People pay a premium to live there. The area of Leeds that I grew up in is so sought after nowadays, prices are well beyond what I could afford and properties sell incredibly quickly.

I love alnwick in Northumberland www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69100263.html.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67831335.html
By the sea, 30 minutes from Newcastle, and a good butcher.

Sorry, near a good butcher.

That house in Redcar is lovely. But Redcar is very deprived and run down and although it has a great community spirit I'm not sure you can in good faith recommend it as somewhere nice to move too. Saltburn and Marske are great but more expensive. The North is like anywhere; nice places cost a lot to live and those places that are a bit ropey for whatever reason are cheap. The only exception is perhaps places that are beautiful but quite isolated or reMote which can be cheap and lovely because of the lack of jobs. If you are paying outright it may not be a problem but if you want to be close to train stations etc it might.

Somewhere between Cardiff and Swansea.

M4, trains, 2 cities with all the associated culture and amenities and the seaside. Educational funding better than in England for kids in FE should they want to access college courses.

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Lincolnshire is lovely, but watch out for houses on flood plains.