Has anyone ever relocated to the other end of the country for cheaper house prices?

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I'm just musing, I would like some experiences.

We're on holiday on the East coast, we drove past a lovely looking detached huge house and I pulled up the details on my phone and was gobsmacked at how cheap it was! This lead me to have a little search around the area we're in and everything is dirt cheap!

We come from the south coast where we live in a HA property that's a million miles too small because for even a tiny 3 bed you're looking at 350k+

Part of me is thinking about seriously speaking to DH about relocating, it would mean moving schools, leaving behind family and most challengingly moving my sons health care which is currently second to none, however somewhere else in the country we could afford a lovely big house with land, everyone could have a bedroom and DS could have his medical treatments at home, currently we spend 6 months a year in hospital because we can't facilitate a medical room and enough bedrooms in the current house.

*wouldn't

I would definitely consider moving if I were in your situation but if your not set on location maybe you research which hospitals could provide the equivalent care for your son and base your search around there? GOSH, Alder Hey or similar hospitals maybe?

Be careful, whilst the sexy sounding £90k for a 4 bed detached house are no doubt available they're usually in grotty areas and your lifestyle wouldn't really improve. That said my wife and I move every 3-4 years getting more rural each time and with some research and local knowledge you can find some amazing properties at great prices.

Lots of things to think about,

DS will move into adult care in the next few years so he will no longer have a shared care approach that we have now and all care will be moved to a specialist hospital - there is also huge new drugs in the pipeline that would be life changing for him/us and should mean much less hospital input.

We live on the South coast, I don't like the seaside, we have 1 sandy beach which means everyone flocks here and the roads are rammed - it drives me mad!

My mother is no longer with us and my dad is still a younger man who travels frequently for work and has a new wife etc - I love him to pieces but we're not a family that see each other a lot.

I have 2 siblings I'm close too who love where I do but busy lifestyles mean we don't really see each other.
My in-laws would be devastated though if we moved far away.

I also have a grandmother I Co care for but she's 99 so won't be around for ever, I wouldn't go anywhere while she was still around.

I will deffo have a look further and mull it over more.

@catandhiskit I live in Chester in the NorthWest. A few miles out so have the benefits of a village but close to a city too. If I want a big city fix we are close to Liverpool and Manchester yet have the N. Wales mountains and beaches within half an hour ☺️

Yep. Moved from Dorset to Suffolk. Never looked back. All 4 kids settled.

So you don't have to worry about jobs which seems to be the number one reason people get stuck in South East housing prices.
There are many lovely parts of the UK with cheaper housing and good schools. I live in a village and have a big garden. My house is a huge 4 bedroom detached with 4 reception and a kitchen big enough to live in. It would fetch £300K if I was very lucky and if I could sell it and yet I am half an hour from a city.

So health provision is your priority. Why not look at areas around other specialist care centres? Maybe ask your consultant to recommend colleagues in the North East or elsewhere? You might not want to be far from the adult care centre he will move to, or are there others in the UK?

I'm just about to. I'm 60 almost and sick of paying a big mortgage. I'm relocating to a much cheaper area in order to pay off my mortgage. It will be a blessed relief and I can then concentrate on saving for my retirement.yes I live in a great area but just don't need the stress anymore. It's only 2 hours to London so not timbuctoo.