To move up north for a big but cheap house!

[dancingmonkey]

Just that really. I l live in Hertfordshire- south east and very expensive part of Uk. Budget is around £270,000 and around here that will get me a small 2 bed/ poss 3 bed. But have looked at properties in York which I know is lovely and the will get me a 4/5 bed with massive garden, playroom, utility etc!

Has anyone on here moved far from friends and family to get more value for money on a house? did you regret? I have a 2 year old so obviously it would be hard to not see grandparents and friends but other that that not sure what I would miss! I also work from home so wouldn't need to worry about that.

This is an old thread that has been resurrected but recognised it for one of the most ridiculous comments I have ever seen on MN:

'the north is an acquired taste'

Hilarious

I moved from SW to NE not for financial reasons, just a change of scenery and I adore the north. So many southeners don't 'get' the north though. It's much friendlier up here, and where I live people live quite traditional, slow lives which I much prefer to the hectic, dreary south.

Your budget wouldn't get that size house where I live (much further North than York). You need to be absolutely sure of any area you buy in.

@NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace

YANBU but .... the north is an acquired taste. It's a big decision, in my opinion.

Good luck with whatever you decide

Wow, that's some dumb shit right there!

Of course some parts of the North aren't very nice but some are lovely. As is the case in the South!

Do your research, OP.

@Susanssa

I’ve been all over and I love to go out and in my opening the evening and nightlife you get in and around Birmingham is unrivalled.

So unrivalled you felt the need to resurrect an old thread to say so 😂

@Shoppingwithmother

“The North is an acquired taste”????!!!!!

WTF?

You do know that “The North” is a massive area and hugely varied. What an ignorant comment.

For many people 'the North' stops at Manchester, Leeds at a push! £270k won't buy the sort of house the OP's imagining in many parts of the North.

My two best friends both did this with a view to being mortgage free and/or able to afford to be SAHMs. Neither happened for either of them. But I love it up there.

I did- loved it but then I grew up in the North - very close to York actually!

Yep.

Moved to Aberdeenshire from West Sussex.

Sold 2 bed terraced house, bought 3 bed detached house with 20 acres for similar price.
No traffic, no one's in a rush, people have more time for each other.

It was a win for us. That said I miss certain things (old friends, family)

@NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace

What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

It's supposed to fucking mean that not everyone would like it!

The whole of The north?! Do you lump the whole of The South together too?!

I know there is a very nice 3 bed semi within walking distance of York city centre that is up for more than the OP (not mine). Definitely struggle to get 4-5 bedrooms for £270k there

ZOMBIE THREAD

from last summer

You'd get a 2 bed terrace in an ok area or a 3 bed semi in a not as ok areas where I am "in the North". It's quite a big area of the country you know.

I would also like to see this enormous house in York with all the facilities you describe at that price as I am looking to move to York and it doesn't match up with the prices I've been looking at.

Annoying that no ones pinned down what is worse about the north. I want specifics!

@JustLyra

As zombie thread resurrections go *@Susanssa* posting this one to sell Harborne is one of the most random 😂

Indeed! *@Susanssa* loves Harborne that much that she's posted the same post on two other threads 😂 she is also quite partial to the slug and lettuce as she highlights it in two different localities as presumably a plus point

I think it’s important to be near family I was living in the south and as soon as I was pregnant I said to my husband it’s time to go home and packed up and moved back 8months pregnant.

That seams really cheap I would check the area out our 4 bedroom house was over £700,000 and that’s a decent area but not amazing. I don’t know why people from the south east think north of Milton Keynes costs 50p

@Sussanssa why the heck have you bumped this - and then posted a huge load of waffle with no paragraphs so my eyes have begun bleeding trying to read it - oh and Dicken's Heath is awful!

Thanks to the Harborne Tourist Board for this thread resurrection

It’s covid and I was bored and I thought I would share my misguided wisdom in another thread too.

In my defence it’s covid and I am bored.

I do agree on dickens Heath, I don’t particularly like Solihull in all honesty.

Harborne, Moseley, Kings Heath, Selly Park will all shoot up in price the nearer we get to HS2 and they open up the old Moseley train line and the Chinese investor keep buying up the build to rents and Londoners diversify.

I’m getting carried away! I did write paragraphs and I’ve done it again now maybe it’s the site ?

There’s no defence for bumping old threads with irrelevant spiels.

Create your own threads if you want, but why on Earth is Harborne or Birmingham remotely relevant to someone who considered moving to York last year?

Must be a not so nice area of York for a house that cheap! I live up north and I love York but it’s soooo expensive, I love visiting but even the drinks there are twice what they are here.

I’m in a cheap enough bit of the generic north, and you’re still £100k short for that.

Bloody hell someone needs to get laid.

Ok I shall delete my account.

Bye!

@Susanssa

Bloody hell someone needs to get laid.

Ok I shall delete my account.

Bye!

How rude are you?! 🙄