Moving from South to North

[Logankatz]

Hi. Myself (44), mum (70) and teenage son want to move north of the country from the South East. It's getting way to expensive and not a nice place to live. Was looking for at Manchester but have no idea where. I know people in Leyland but that's it.

Where are nice places to live with reasonable rent and house prices.

Also doing to for my son who will never be able to afford his one home down here.

Thank you

tottington? 'Last year most property sales in Tottington involved terraced properties which sold for on average £147,298. Detached properties sold for an average price of £327,394, while semi-detached properties fetched £184,911.'- taken from Rightmove. there is a decent bus service and its around a 40 minute journey into Manchester City Center.

all the best x

Is your son still at school? Finyiu need to be near a town for work? What type of work? Do you drive? Need a train station? Hospital? Airport close by more than occasional holidays?

Budget? bedrooms? Town? Country? Beach? Buy/rent?

The north of England is a big place!

We moved to Cumbria having lived all our lives in the SE. It's fab. We are just south of Kendal.

Cheshire is lovely.

My son is at school but once his GCSEs are over I want to move. I'll be looking for work mainly retail. I drive. We'd need to rent first til we found somewhere we liked so as cheap as possible but not too rough an area. Would need to be 3 bed and we don't do holidays.

My mum is moving with us from Ireland.

Slowknitter. What's it like for work?

Well we are both teachers, so it's fine for us. I'm not sure about other sectors - I guess it depends what your area is.