Can we play property porn for second homes?

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Imagine you had £400k or £500k, where would you buy?

Not after the pros and cons of second home ownership or the issues of pricing locals out as it isn't me buying.

If it were I'd quite fancy somewhere rural, secure, cute little towns nearby for coffee shops and then a larger town/ nice small city, such as Bath or Cambridge.

Mind you if we're doing total fantasy we could just push the budget up to a few million and a helicopter to whizz us around.

MadameChinLegs does that £7.5 million include relocating it to its natural habitat in New England?

hahah, it is a bit copycat usa, but I do rather like it

Seb1, there are loads of stunning houses round the edges of Nethy Bridge. I stay there every winter with a Scout group and always have property envy about something.

I like this in Grantown on Spey - 6 bedrooms for £475k!!

Oh lovely! Right, stuff Nethy Bridge, all that AND Grantown's got an alright chipper.

Oh I shall look out for the chipper on my way past in July! Can't see anything I really like in Lossiemouth which would be my preferred location really!

Nethy Bridge is a gorgeous house!

oh my - I like the look of this myself:
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Yes but Nethy Bridge has a chippy van once a week, the Nethy Bridge house used to a hotel where you could have a lovely meal.

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I love the assynt plot Abzs. Dp is currently working out the exact plot size :)

Curses, Ungratefulchild.

But not actually in our reality any time soon. Especially not with all the time DH is spending looking at this. Like that's gonna happen...

Our dream is really Coigach, but there is never anything for sale in Achnahaird (our first choice) and Achiltibuie etc is hideously expensive with crappy plots. I love Assynt too. Proper wilderness.

this would do me

Oh Jaqueline that is my perfect house. I would have to repaint those kitchen cupboards though - what were they thinking with purple? Also the black striped wallpaper over the fireplace.
But other than that it's utterly gorgeous.
Wonder if I can scrape enough together from dc's piggy banks?

Love the South African ones, I could live in Tamboerskloof or Hout bay easily. We had a friend lived in Hout bay, in an apartment with the most stunning view.