Advice needed about all my options!

mlz1413

When i was in my mid 20's I ended up living back at my mum's for a few months due to circumstances, she lived a good hour away from my job so it was a real bind. But I ended up staying with friends for 2 of the nights so I didn't have to travel every day. That worked well as it cut my petrol costs and i got time with my friends.

Re working in cambridge if you work in the centre check out the park & ride facilities and costs, also register with lifeshare as you might be able to share at least part of the journey then.

Good luck with the lodgings.

Rockporkchop

If you got a transfer to your London office would that mean a big rise in salary? If so, you could stay in your current house and commute to London. It would take less than an hour. You could save up a bit and then maybe reconsider your situation when your BF graduates. When I was younger I really enjoyed working in London (bit fed up of it now!). I have always preferred to live outside London and commute.

jojo89_2

I really like that idea! I think I'd be best off to contact someone in our HR department to find out the figures, but I think doing my same job in London will probably get me about £3k more. Which, when you work out how much a season ticket is for the year. is not going to put me in too much of a better situation. I will contact HR though, just to clarify. You never know, they might say there's a position opening up soon that is better than my current job and therefore a bigger pay rise! Thanks for the advice

cclarke12

Rockporkchop wrote: »

If you got a transfer to your London office would that mean a big rise in salary? If so, you could stay in your current house and commute to London. It would take less than an hour. You could save up a bit and then maybe reconsider your situation when your BF graduates. When I was younger I really enjoyed working in London (bit fed up of it now!). I have always preferred to live outside London and commute.

Cambridge to London season ticket is over £4500 per year :eek:

Bethankim

Hiya,

one option you have is to see if you can have the tenancy passed to you - councils allow a tenancy to be passed on once. ask for writen permission to have a friend move in and dont put them on the tennancy again its allowable as long as your get written permission.

then once all thats sorted you could look at a mutual exchange with someone in london or where ever you fancy as you live in a desirable area of the country and as long as you dont have any arrears perfectly ok to do it, that way you keep a secire tennancy and can relocate avoiding paying a massive rent hike to private.

as a council tennant with a secure tennanc and the right to buy if i ever wanted it im not sure id be so quick to give it up.

just an idea but you have lots f options just thought id throw that one in too

jojo89_2

That's good to know that it can be passed on once and to my knowledge it hasn't already. I will call them later and let you know what they say. It seems like the cheapest option if I can get someone to move in with me as my bro is going to be renting a 2 bed flat for £600 a month. Then obviously they'll have the bills on top of that...eek! I think the rent for the house is only about £425 or something so it's such a big difference!

Thank you Jo

Fire_Fox

I know Royston and I have lived in numerous shared houses in Cambridge. You won't find a decent room in Cambridge for under £250 a month plus bills, and it will be more like £300. Stay in the Royston house if at all possible, and considering exercising your 'Right to Buy' in a few years.

Rockporkchop

cclarke12 wrote: »

Cambridge to London season ticket is over £4500 per year :eek:

OP lives in Royston, so about £3500, but still admittedly quite hefty. Although worth it if the salary increase is good. I'd be surprised if the increase was only £3k.

Jowo_2

I like Bethamkin's suggestion that you enjoy the security of tenure of the social housing tenancy which doesn't necessarily tie you down permanently to that property because of the mutual exchange programme or right to buy.

There are millions of people on the social housing waiting lists who are dying to move out of the private sector to enjoy low rent and security of tenure.

I don't think you should throw this away for the 'bright lights' of London because once the fun of the city wears off, you could be stuck in extremely poor but extremely expensive accommodation that swallows a significant amount of your income for the rest of your life, exposed to private landlords instead of not-for-profit professional property management.

Jobs and boyfriends come and go but having a cheap property for life is a comfort!