Can we move to London.

[TwinSetAndPearls]

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?

Have you thought about Edinburgh, TW&P? Gorgeous city, tons to do, compact area with good travel links. Property Centre Only problem is, I'd then be jealous of you! I truly don't know anyone who doesn't like Edinburgh.

TS&P - I would seriously consider renting in your position. The likliehood is your house will take a long time to sell, the housing market is struggling at the moment.
The price of housing is likely to drop dramatically over the next couple of years.
And by renting in London, you'll be there on the pulse and ready to go when the right house comes up! Sellers love that. You'll get out of the terminal chains business.

I don't like Edinburgh! Much prefer Glasgow

Edinburgh is lovely, I thought of moving there, would love my ds to have a Scottish accent, but and it is a big but, the winters are so long...

Darn CD, that's me blasted out of the water! Glasgow's so sprawly, I can never quite connect all the areas together in my brain, iykwim

I thought of endinburgh, but isn't that as expensive as London.

how ironic I am desperate to leave London!

Oh blimey. You're worse than me. I keep choosing random places which sound nice, that I should move to! When you've found somewhere, let me know and I'll move in next door!

We probably will rent for a while, although I can't envisage it taking long to sell this house, we have only been here under a year and we had to fight other buyers off in a mad bidding frenzy to get the house.

But i do acknowledge that things may have changed since then.

Why don't you swap houses, TSaP and Janeybops?

TS&P, Edinburgh is expensive but not as much as London, I don't think, plus there are more reasonably priced but nice areas around as well. Look at the property website I posted - it has the majority of Edin properties on it!

Whatabout it Janeybops, large 1930s semi in a desirable location, views of the golf course with flexible livng space ideal for the growing family.

All for around £140,000!