I hate you Northerners.

chrisandanne

Oh God here we go again....what IS the matter with this woman !!!!.

PP please darling get some professional help, I am really worried about you.

There must be something terribly amiss with your life if you need to harrass a complete stranger on a website. A x

itsgototstop

Love this thread, been in London 10 years now ( bought up in the country, moved here for job after qualifying), I moan about the dirt, the prices but that quote about going outside London and then scurrying back struck a chord!

Horses for courses but I love it here:beer:

Liquorice_Twirls

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There isn't "less crime" overall in the north than the south of England, though.

Maybe not overall, but I live in Cumbria and there are practically never any crimes shown on Crimewatch, you know when you watch the bit at the end when it lists all the Police Forces that have helped make today's programme! lol

We have Police who turn up to every report, usually within half an hour. And that is my actual experience not something I saw on TV! (A minor car bump, and a friend who had some kids causing a lot of noise outside her house)

fc123

Throughout the 90's, one of us was in Hebden Bridge for work, a few days every 3 weeks. I loved the area.

Without wanting to sound like a saddo, one of my evening hobbies after a hard day of graft was pottering around the village, looking at gorgeous, reasonably priced houses in the EA's windows (days before RM)......but the core business was London based, it's where family were, to re-locate wouldn't have worked out business wise.

But now....well.........the new LifePlan (LP G subsection d(ii) is kicking in.

If we don't trip over...the dream job could be located anywhere...except I would need to be able to get to London reasonably easily (thinking fast train link)

We are living between 2 homes (owned and rented) and it's getting complicated and confusing.
It's not going to work out living/working between the 2.

I love London Buzz but have a submerged part of me that wants to hide on Chesil Beach part of the time (with some land) and OH wants to stay, permanently in Brighton (even if the shop goes) as he likes having 'best of both worlds'; buzzy town (25 min walk) , sea and boats (front view), downs behind us.


Still, don't have to decide for 4 years...DD needs to finish school and we won't move her again..too unsettling.

Loads of family visit all the time...but that is the bit I really miss...being 5 mins from everyone..esp as parents getting older. Dad going deaf so we can't chat on the 'phone + he can't type well..so e-mails aren't good for chit chat.

Gen...you sound spaced out;)

LillyJ

Ms_Piggy wrote: »

HOW did you get a week's holiday in Spain for £100 each????

Flights were 1p plus tax, the car hire was £80 for the week (ie £40 each) and the camp site was next to nothing for the week. (out of season).
Obviously we had food to buy on top of that but we cooked in the tent and we would have had food to buy at home too!

neverdespairgirl

caveman38 wrote: »

. They were originally marketed for £335K and £290K. They are still up for £300K and £270K fail to attract much interest but the owners won't budge.
Is it a London thing?

It's certainly not only a London thing - I've seen other posts over the last few months saying similar things about asking prices all over the place.

I don't know, however, if it's happening more or less in London than elsewhere.

Davesnave

caveman38 wrote: »

Find your own post to bicker girls.
Getting back to original theme, are you finding that us guys in London and Se are stubborn with our HP's.
2 properties along and opposite me have been on the market for 9 months plus. They were originally marketed for £335K and £290K. They are still up for £300K and £270K fail to attract much interest but the owners won't budge.
Is it a London thing?

Where I live, (Bristol/ Bath) I'd expect a £335k property with 9 months on the clock to have dropped to £299k, but that would not tell the whole story because, to secure a deal, the vendor might have to settle for £280k.

It's the selling price that counts. Buyers are expecting considerable flexibility below the asking prices.

jancee_2

Basic economics. People will live where the jobs are, therefore people need to live near those jobs. Fine if you're in a secure job in lovely, lovely Newcastle but jobs are hard to find otherwise in the north east.

neverdespairgirl

jancee wrote: »

. Fine if you're in a secure job in lovely, lovely Newcastle but jobs are hard to find otherwise in the north east.

Has Newcastle's economy changed much since the late 1990s?

StevieJ

Davesnave wrote: »

Where I live, (Bristol/ Bath) I'd expect a £335k property with 9 months on the clock to have dropped to £299k, but that would not tell the whole story because, to secure a deal, the vendor might have to settle for £280k.

It's the selling price that counts. Buyers are expecting considerable flexibility below the asking prices.

Exactly, so I suggest we take the LR figures when we are measuring drops.