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Can we move to London.

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TwinSetAndPearls · 23/07/2005 23:23

I hate were we are living now with a passion, I am so miserable that it is starting to affect my relationship with dp.

WE live in Lancashire and have been looking at Yorkshire, but I just can't find anywhere that I like and the reason is that I want to go back to London. I have finally ground dp down and he is willing to look at London - but now is the hard bit - finance!

I don't see how we can do it, our present house is worth about £145,000, our mortgage is about £100,000. Our household income is about £40-45K.

I have enquired about shared ownership and key worker schemes as I am teacher so should be eligble but of course I couldn't get a teaching job in London without somewhere to live, and I am not eligible for any of the schemes without a job.

Am I going to be stuck living in a place I hate forever ?

Is there a way out? Is there a way for us to buy in London?

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WestCountryLass · 24/07/2005 21:36

We have just moved and it is possible for your DH to live in the country and for you to ahve the city on yoru doorstep, move to Ham Green! It is a small village BUT it is 5 minutes to Clifton (the posh part of the city) over the Suspension Bridge AND it has good access to the motorway as it is only 5 minutes to the M5 and 10-15 minutes to the M4/M5 interchange. Here are some houses in your budget here:

www.rightmove.co.uk/action/publicsite.PropertySearch

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TwinSetAndPearls · 24/07/2005 21:38

tortoishelle - liked the garden on the first but they didn't pass dp discerning eye!

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WestCountryLass · 24/07/2005 21:38

Post below is about Bristol btw

FrenchGirl · 24/07/2005 21:42

bishopston should be good for you, lots of young families, good primary schools, cafes and little shops on gloucester road, nice victorian houses.

WideWebWitch · 24/07/2005 21:43

Yes, you might get something for £200k in Bishopston

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TwinSetAndPearls · 24/07/2005 21:50

I think dp is on the same wavelength as you westcountrylass, he has seen a house in wales that he loves and wants to commute - 45 minutes according to autoroute.

here

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WideWebWitch · 24/07/2005 21:50

Scummy, what about this?

WideWebWitch · 24/07/2005 21:51

actually, this looks better, 3 beds

WideWebWitch · 24/07/2005 21:52

and this

snafu · 24/07/2005 21:53

Doesn't it drive you nuts when estate agents say 'comprises of'?

WestCountryLass · 24/07/2005 21:54

That is a really nice house, especially for the price

The only thing I would say is, might you not be in the same situation there as you are at present as you would be out in the sticks and considering you are not happy at the moment? However Caldicot is a really nice place!

hunkermunker · 24/07/2005 21:55

Snafu, the one that really gets me is when they talk about halls and landings having "doors to all rooms". Like they'll have doors to all rooms except one, which you have to access by nipping outside and shinning up the drainpipe before clambering in the window!

Or "heating to radiators" - no, heating from radiators, you buffoons!

WideWebWitch · 24/07/2005 21:55

Same site there was a 4 bed but my broadband crashed! Must be grotty area but worth a look.

snafu · 24/07/2005 21:56

The thing is, they all do it. All of them. Is there some Estate Agent Code of Bad Grammar they all have to work to?

hunkermunker · 24/07/2005 21:57

Think there must be, Snafu - like a handbook that they all refer to before writing details!

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TwinSetAndPearls · 24/07/2005 21:58

It is not so much being out in the sticks as the lind of sticks that i a surrounded by. It would be a comprimise I would be an hour away from Bristol if we wanted to go out for the day or evening. But I see your point WCL.

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ScummyMummy · 24/07/2005 21:59

Thnks www. Those look fine. I do like Brighton. Seeing houseboat in Essex on Tues but am just not sure the area will suit as quite villagey/rural and we are carless at present. It's not as easy to chug it along the Thames and park up in central London as I first thought!

ScummyMummy · 24/07/2005 22:03

i like your dh's house choice, tsap.

WestCountryLass · 24/07/2005 22:04

I'm sure everything will work out whatever you decide. That house in Caldicot looks really nice and what with the planning sounds like a good opportunity too, definitely worth coming down to have a look at.

We only moved across the city but we had our concerns, the village has been really welcoming though and we know we've done the right thing

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TwinSetAndPearls · 24/07/2005 22:07

Am going for a coffee, I seem to ahve been staring at a computer screen all day and am now knackered! Thankyou all of you for putting up with my stamping foot, I want it now , demanding ways!

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zoya · 24/07/2005 22:30

There are lots of cities other than London where I think you could get a lot of the kind of life you want - don't be put off by feeling it didn't work in Leeds, just 1 year really wasn't giving it a fair crack of the whip.

I have moved several times as an adult. IME, you pretty much always do spend the first year pining for the place you just left, always comparing the new place against it and finding it wanting. Then in the second year you start to notice the distinctive things that your new place has going for it. By the third year, you've got some real friends, your haunts, your mates have come to stay with you and think your life is great etc....

As a former London-dwelling, Guardian-reading, Boden-wearing snotty madam who lives very happily in a northern city, I can assure that there are plenty of our sort doing so very happily - though nothing would induce me to attempt it in Blackpool . The fantastic thing about Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle etc is that you can have real urban pleasures and authentically rural one in the same weekend, no bother.

Good luck, hope you and your dp find somewhere than makes you both happy.

CountessDracula · 24/07/2005 22:35

bugger have no time to search now, but will try tomorrow!

bubblerock · 24/07/2005 23:34

I don't know London at all but like looking at houses too

Also, did you know that Ryannair fly twice a day from Blackpool to Stanstead, it only takes an hour and is really cheap, might be worth going with DP for a weekend away - sounds like you could do with it!

West thamesmead SE28 0DB

Enfield N9 7EP

Walthamstow E17 8AD

mancmum · 25/07/2005 10:38

I would just echo Zoyas comment I lived for 10 fab years in London and moved up to MAnchester a few years ago I honestly think we have a better lifestyle here and there is now very little difference between the 2 cities in range of choice of restaurants, theatres, bars etc... in fact most of my london friends love coming up here as they prefer it... I do think that Blackpool is not the sort of place I could envisage living in though... but South Manchester has a real London feel to it... and the house prices are way cheaper!!

Everygrainofsand · 25/07/2005 10:39

Brum is Britain's best kept secret.

All the facilities that "The Smoke" has but nicer people and a cleaner and more beautiful city.

Loads of work too. And the best shopping in Europe!!!