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Where would you love to own a second home?

84 replies

HuulTown · 22/07/2023 23:13

by the sea

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BarrelOfOtters · 23/07/2023 10:08

We often play this game.

small flat in Bloomsbury, walking distance to British Museum, West End, go down for the weekend, in retirement spend weeks there…

DH left London in his early 30s and felt he never made the most of it and I’ve always wanted to try city living.

Or, house in Lake District….or around there…easy for us to reach. Love the Lakes. Again retirement plans.

or Granada, easy to get to and such a classy city.

its nice to dream!

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 23/07/2023 10:35

Northumberland, by the sea.

Backstreets · 23/07/2023 10:38

Somewhere really lovely in France, with good wine, good food and pretty nature. No internet:) I get enough city life in my day-to-day.

Applebeard · 23/07/2023 10:41

I'd hypothetically buy a hypothetical holiday home right next to some of the pervious posters, and call it 'The Joyless Husk'.

Crikeyalmighty · 23/07/2023 10:42

Majorca

Daftasabroom · 23/07/2023 10:46

Vintage Airstream

DizzyRascal · 23/07/2023 10:54

Brittany( although I would get enormously fat on cheese and wine)or San Sebastian. Or possibly Corfu. Or the Italian Riviera. So hard to choose!

ivykaty44 · 23/07/2023 11:32

LMNT · 23/07/2023 08:48

I think the same. Id spend a couple of hundred thousand on a Winnebago Class A.

Its just I don't think I could decide where to purchase a second home, there are so many good places

France in the Alps during the first 3 weeks of July
Northern Spain
Northern Italy
Drive through to Southern Spain and get the ferry to Majorca
Greece
Portugals west coast
beautiful views and wonderful sunsets

CellophaneFlower · 23/07/2023 13:33

ivykaty44 · 23/07/2023 08:42

On wheels

Yet there you are on another thread banging on about how people should take their babies to hospital by other means and not rely on cars 🤣🤣🤣

Crucible · 23/07/2023 13:38

Norfolk coast I think. I'd love to give a few family members a break. They could use it no charge.

ShakeYourFeathers · 23/07/2023 13:45

I'd get a motorhome tbh

ShakeYourFeathers · 23/07/2023 14:04

www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/harlyn-bay-padstow-cornwall-pl28/exe012338800

Changed my mind I want this to be my first and second home!

Unicorn2022 · 23/07/2023 15:35

I love a lot of places abroad but if I had a second home I'd want to be able to go there at weekends, so it needs to be within reasonable distance to London. Maybe Sandbanks, Swanage, Christchurch, Cotswolds. Too many places to choose from.

Intothewoodswithallthegoods · 23/07/2023 19:54

Applebeard · 23/07/2023 10:41

I'd hypothetically buy a hypothetical holiday home right next to some of the pervious posters, and call it 'The Joyless Husk'.

I’d love to see some of them reading ‘You Choose’ with their kids 😂

Where would you love to own a second home?
Treacletoots · 23/07/2023 19:56

France. And we were well on our way to achieving this until, you know, Brexit. Fucking Assholes.

Spanielsarepainless · 23/07/2023 19:59

North Norfolk or around Richmond in Swaledale. Norfolk Broads perhaps.

MiniTheMinx · 23/07/2023 20:00

Cairo. I love the dry heat. I pass as a local after a week! never wanted to come home. So maybe I wouldn't keep a home here at all :)

Anapana · 23/07/2023 20:01

Mandurah in Western Australia and I’d live there happily every winter

Spendonsend · 23/07/2023 20:01

Something overlooking the thames, southbank area, although thats not the sea.

Seaside i think swanage

shivawn · 23/07/2023 20:03

Nowhere.

Not for moral reasons but we like visiting loads of different places so we would rarely be going back to the same area.

midsomermurderess · 23/07/2023 20:06

HiHoHiHoltsOffToWorkWeGo · 23/07/2023 09:16

Nowhere because I'm not immoral enough to hoard more housing than I need during an acute housing shortage.

And you get such a stellar view from way, way up there on your idiotically high horse. For the avoidance of doubt, no one on this thread is doing anything other thanSunday evening light fantasising.

I'd like a pastel-coloured house on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. Sandham might do.

Summerswimmer767 · 23/07/2023 20:11

Alpine ski resort or a campervan

woodhill · 23/07/2023 20:12

Devon or Tyneside

woodhill · 23/07/2023 20:12

Or Southwold

MTGBTTATP · 23/07/2023 20:16

ShakeYourFeathers · 23/07/2023 14:04

Nice house - but that interior & furniture in a £4 million house is a bit of a shcoker!😵