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FunnysInLaJardin · 2022-05-13T21:42:24+00:00

I suspect I do. A 2 bed flat with parking will be around £600k and a 3 bed family home is about £850k I think we are on a par with central London, but thought I would ask the hive mind. This is not a good thing btw, just interested

oakleaffy · 15/05/2022 07:07

Clearly a stealth boast post.

Choufleurfromage · 15/05/2022 07:12

FunnysInLaJardin · 13/05/2022 23:12

Is that right? How much tax do you pay in the UK? Its 25 years since I lived there

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Don't you have access to the internet in the Channel Isles?

oakleaffy · 15/05/2022 07:16

Choufleurfromage · 15/05/2022 07:12

Don't you have access to the internet in the Channel Isles?

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Clearly must have very poor internet service if these simple things can’t be googled.

A simple google gives the average house price of every area, / street/ Village and rate of tax paid.

Maybe OP lacks initiative.

RedWingBoots · 15/05/2022 07:17

Crispynoodle · 14/05/2022 23:14

My 5 bed 3 bathrooms 3 receptions 1 study detached house with floored attic and huge 1/2 acre garden is worth £250K in Northern Ireland I have no idea how you all fund those huge mortgages!

High paying jobs or careers, brought decades ago when housing was cheaper, brought under right to buy and not moved, and inheritance. Or any combination of these.

However unless you are in a high paying job and loaded at least one of your adult children or grandchildren are likely to be living with you. Some of them will have moved back in when a relationship failed so they can be older than 40.

I am related to and know people from a variety of backgrounds in London and SE where this is the situation.

PrimroseBaking · 15/05/2022 07:24

I live in a beautiful area of Surrey and 3 bedroom houses (they do have nice spacious gardens though) go for at least £1mil. There are a group of flats that are on the market for £850k each and they're 2 bedroom

Ifailed · 15/05/2022 07:28

I hadn't realised that housing was so cheap on Jersey, but then I haven't been interested until now. But then I discover they have little or no access to the Internet or the popular press and are ignorant about the rest of the World, rather like Putin's Russia, I'm not surprised at property prices.

oakleaffy · 15/05/2022 07:32

RedWingBoots · 15/05/2022 07:17

High paying jobs or careers, brought decades ago when housing was cheaper, brought under right to buy and not moved, and inheritance. Or any combination of these.

However unless you are in a high paying job and loaded at least one of your adult children or grandchildren are likely to be living with you. Some of them will have moved back in when a relationship failed so they can be older than 40.

I am related to and know people from a variety of backgrounds in London and SE where this is the situation.

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Redwing, Yes, house prices were ( In real terms) significantly cheaper years ago.
No way on God’s Green Earth could I buy my quite ordinary Victorian house now.
Property prices are obscene in so many parts of UK.
The area I grew up in ( Revisiting now) I love, but even a tiny cottage is well over a million.
A generation of children in these areas will be relying on Inheritance to buy.
Core staff like Nurses, Teachers &c
Their pay just cannot cover the mortgages unless money from parents/ grandparents filters down.

PriamFarrl · 15/05/2022 07:37

FunnysInLaJardin · 14/05/2022 13:27

So I have established that I don't live in the most expensive area, and many other areas of the UK are comparable.

I have also established that the small mindedness I left behind all those years ago is still alive and well.

I was asked where I lived and I answered. No one on this thread has any idea whether I am renting a flat on minimum wage, or living in a 10 bed mansion rolling in cash.

Just by stating the fact I live in Jersey led to a raft of accusations of bragging and all manner of unpleasantness.

Ah well, it is what it is

I don’t think it’s the others on this thread who are small minded.

Twilightstarbright · 15/05/2022 09:09

@gracedentssketty partly, mainly just wanted to live near family as we found it tough living there with no family support and took a while to make friends. It’s incredible in the summer though and I miss the cliffs and beaches so much.

gracedentssketty · 15/05/2022 09:10

@Twilightstarbright ah shame, but I get it re needing the family support

Crikeyalmighty · 15/05/2022 09:30

We met a couple in their 60s from Jersey in Majorca last year, originally from Manchester and he was a tradesman - they had been there 20 years. As we are late 50s I think he presumed we would 'think' like them but he couldn't be more wrong-- they were racist, xenophobic, Brexity , bling merchants , thoroughly horrible - I couldn't get away fast enough. I did get the feeling though that Jersey might not be for me-!!

oakleaffy · 15/05/2022 16:07

Crikeyalmighty · 15/05/2022 09:30

We met a couple in their 60s from Jersey in Majorca last year, originally from Manchester and he was a tradesman - they had been there 20 years. As we are late 50s I think he presumed we would 'think' like them but he couldn't be more wrong-- they were racist, xenophobic, Brexity , bling merchants , thoroughly horrible - I couldn't get away fast enough. I did get the feeling though that Jersey might not be for me-!!

Sounds hideous!

” Brexity” just about sums it up.

“Gammony” ?
Not only that, but so geographically small, too.

Lesperance · 15/05/2022 18:05

You're right, that's very expensive. I feel sorry for people who are from Jersey with those prices. I understand if you have been living there for years, you have an emotional attachment to the place. Why would people move there, it must be some tax thing? Or I guess they don't speak good enough French, or perhaps they don't have the right to live in France given that it was never in the EU. Living in France, I just can't see the attraction of living in Jersey, it seems like you have all the disadvantages of living in an expensive place, and the only advantages, weather, and a beautiful environment, are available for much less money in France.

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FunnysInLaJardin · 15/05/2022 20:39

Crikeyalmighty · 15/05/2022 09:30

We met a couple in their 60s from Jersey in Majorca last year, originally from Manchester and he was a tradesman - they had been there 20 years. As we are late 50s I think he presumed we would 'think' like them but he couldn't be more wrong-- they were racist, xenophobic, Brexity , bling merchants , thoroughly horrible - I couldn't get away fast enough. I did get the feeling though that Jersey might not be for me-!!

wtaf, just listen to yourself and transpose Jersey for any other country in the world. You utter biggot

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FunnysInLaJardin · 15/05/2022 20:43

Lesperance · 15/05/2022 18:05

You're right, that's very expensive. I feel sorry for people who are from Jersey with those prices. I understand if you have been living there for years, you have an emotional attachment to the place. Why would people move there, it must be some tax thing? Or I guess they don't speak good enough French, or perhaps they don't have the right to live in France given that it was never in the EU. Living in France, I just can't see the attraction of living in Jersey, it seems like you have all the disadvantages of living in an expensive place, and the only advantages, weather, and a beautiful environment, are available for much less money in France.

People are born here, like my children. Its home to lots of people and many of them will never be able to buy a home here.

So it is very expensive and aside from moving to the UK, where they have never lived, my children will have to hope they earn enough to buy a home here.

All the xenophobia in the world won't change the fact that Jersey is a real society with people from every background you can imagine.

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