to think I should move up North

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www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73713518.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=sharing&utm_campaign=buying

I've never really been to the north much and haven't lived there but the house prices!

Please be aware that if you do decide to move North you have to provide your own flat cap and whippet.

Some places in the South are shit. Some places I the north are shit. I dint know why people don’t get that. I have e spent time in London and there are areas I wouldn’t ever contemplate living in yet they are three times as expensive as a lovely northern town with easy commute to a big city with job opportunities. I have also been to nothern towns that have a feeling of utter despair.

People just mostly live in their own bubble.

I think that’s extremely overpriced for what it is! I certainly wouldn’t pay it.
You can buy much nicer properties for similar money in other areas. We have a very large 4-bed Edwardian house, courtyard, large 2-storey coach house (garage/workshop with upstairs space that DP is planning a cinema and gym in) and then reasonable garden. Utility, long hallway etc It’s a nice area, excellent transport links, never had problems with unemployment and we paid well under 200k. I’d never sacrifice what we have to move South. Our city and the surrounding countryside are beautiful.

@MaryShelley1818 I'm dying to know where you live. It sounds fabulous!
We're in the north in an ok area. Small 3 bed semi and it's worth similar to what you paid.

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@Mary. Where on earth are you

www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/65169670

Come properly north and you get stuff like this within 40 miles of Edinburgh and Glasgow

Assuming you can get work which pays enough to maintain or improve on your standard of living go for it.

I have lived and worked with the better half all over the uk, but our rates don't get better down South. Some school friends have ended up trapped in London in careers that just don't functionally exist outside the m25 (though two did then retire in their twenties), but for most people there is work outside the m25 but not necessarily better paid in comparison to the cost of living.

This makes me very sad. But the roads are scary and hilly in my experience 😁

Mary did you buy your house in 1818, I mean I know which Edward you’re talking about when you say your house is Edwardian, but maybe you bought it off-plan about 60 years before final build?😂

Friend has exactly the same house as yours but with garden, in very desirable town (Harrogate type of place) and paid £835 for it.

Seriously Mary you say that’s what you paid, but when it could have been 30 years ago?

Not so cheap Manchester
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65236363.html

Droningon unfortunately that house would need another 100K at least to make it remotely habitable. Would make a nice B&B though, nice back garden, hideous frontage.

Not quite under £200k but this is a 4 bed detached property for just over in Ebbw Vale, one of the cheapest places in the UK
www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/61536889

and another...
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64142260.html

whitedust lovely - shame there is no rear garden.

Well, I was not expecting that back yard from the Manchester one

The house dron posted is like you have climbed through a time portal, I think it is pretty amazing. Even the car outside it just seems so untouched by the modern finger.

On t'other side of country a 'rear courtyard' is a 'back yard'

And that is a tiny back yard for the money.

On a serious note - did anyone watch Panorama tonight? Houses prices may be (on average) cheaper, but the health inequalities are stark.

Atthebottomofthesea
I have it recorded but having lived in the Welsh valleys all my life I can certainly imagine the content to be very true. It's pretty bleak here.

That first house isn’t that nice. The swimming pool in the back room is TINY

I decided I was fed up with London a few years back and moved to a big Northern city.
Big mistake!
Fewer jobs
Lower pay
Less free things to do
Public transport unreliable

I couldn't find a full time job at n my field and ended up with three part time jobs. I had no work life balance and my disposable income was less than it had been in London, and there were far fewer free things to do so I was bored and frustrated most of the time.

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Interesting thread OP. I often wonder about selling up in London and living mortage free

BUT.... where do you choose, I think you'd need to have some roots somewhere, family or friends maybe and we don't.

The risk is moving away from where we have close friends and family to knowing nobody. We are both self employed. Kids are happy and settled.

But living debt free....that has a pull.

Mainly, our relationship is on shaky ground as it is so I can't see me moving way when I'm wondering if we should even be together!

Sorry everyone...village 5-8mins from Durham City (most of the Durham villages are quite cheap as not seen as ‘desirable’ compared to being in the right city location - 1mile up the road our house would have been double!)
We bought it in April 2017 so relatively recently. We were chain free and sellers needed a wuick sale so sold and completed and moved within 5.5wks.