cheapest place to live in Britain

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  • bimbo84
    bimbo84 Posts: 67 Forumite
    sarahmac1975 wrote: »
    for many years my home town of billingham (TS23) has the honour of being the cheapest place to live - you can still buy a houses in tesside - middlesbrough for less than £40K.
    Everything is cheap:o
    Even the men :p

    i think waterloo walk in sulgrave, washington (near sunderland) is the cheapest street in the country...although i wouldn't recommend you live there! Theres quite a few areas in sunderland that are still quite cheap though.

    have a look on upmystreet.com
  • Stageshoot
    Stageshoot Posts: 592 Forumite
    Try Shirebrook. North Derbyshire.

    Still some very cheap property there (Ex Mining Town), Purchased a 3 storey 4 Bed Mid Terrace there 5 years ago for £18k, and there is still plenty of property sub £40k

    Cheap food, several Food "Outlet" stores in the town centre sell Major Supermarket Close to sell buy overstocks for pennies (Ready meals that are £3.99 in the supermarket are often 3 for a quid), good cheap market in the town centre 3 times a week and boot sale on sat.

    We stayed there several years, cheap downmarket and did the job whilst we needed it..

    (it is a bit inbred, sorry it is!! Everyone is related, and no matter how long you live there you will be an outsiider unless you worked down the pit and your dad was in the miners strike!)
    Over 100k miles of Electric Motoring and rising,
  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
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    ampersand wrote: »
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    Most of Norfolk, even inland from Chelsea-on-Sea has become VERY expensive over the last 10 years.
    Sorry to disillusion you.

    Yep! North Norfolk coast is really expensive and known as Chelsea-next-the-sea.
    The man without a signature.
  • mum2kathryn
    mum2kathryn Posts: 214 Forumite
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    As far as house prices go, try this website:

    www.mouseprice.com

    go to the map of property hotspots - the white/ pale patches are the cheapest ones.

    Niki
  • woodstoke
    woodstoke Posts: 236 Forumite
    how about gainsborough in lincolnshire you can get a 3 bed terraced for £35,000 and its being regenerated at the mo so it would be a wise investment.
  • VickyA_2
    VickyA_2 Posts: 4,533 Forumite
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    woodstoke wrote: »
    how about gainsborough in lincolnshire you can get a 3 bed terraced for £35,000 and its being regenerated at the mo so it would be a wise investment.

    And Gainsborough does have a railway station so you can get out of it quickly. (thank goodness!)
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  • CODEBREAKER
    CODEBREAKER Posts: 713 Forumite
    CARDBOARD city is the cheapest but a bit damp in the winter lol....
  • Fulham_Mark
    Fulham_Mark Posts: 242 Forumite
    I'd go with Billingham too. Hartlepool isn't that cheap anymore, it has "re-development" but last time i was there it had all been closed-down.

    The small mining villages on the coast south-east of middlesbrough are also v cheap (apart from car insurance?) used to be able to pick up a 4-bed house for 25k until a few years ago.

    I've just come back from Tokyo and this country is stupidly expensive compared to Japan....
  • baxgttdi
    baxgttdi Posts: 388 Forumite
    I'd back up Fulham Mark's view about Billingham
    LBM 2 - 27.05.09. Debt was £33224 + 1100:eek: OD.
    Car - was - [STRIKE]20867[/STRIKE] - now - Gone! :T Zopa - was [STRIKE]6800[/STRIKE] -now - Gone loan - was [STRIKE]1687 [/STRIKE]- now Gone! :T Student Loan - was [STRIKE]1850 [/STRIKE] - now gone!! - Barclay Card was -[STRIKE] £2000[/STRIKE] now - Gone OD - was 1100 - now - 900 :mad:
    Total - £0 :rotfl: + OD = 100% paid!!!
  • Tuttifruitty_Theresa
    Tuttifruitty_Theresa Posts: 249 Forumite
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    Stoke on Trent is a cheap place to live but the wages here are dire, but i suppose if you don't mind travelling to work you could commute to other cities as we are pretty central
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