Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wish I could rent something affordable and nice, but 1-bed grotty flats (usually without parking) are about £550/month, a 3-bedder, with parking, would be more like £750-850-1000/month. Rent + bills on that'd definitely be more than I could bring in.

Difficult one. Would you consider taking on a 3 bed and renting out one of the rooms? That way you get to choose a flat mate you feel you can live with.

Would you be happy to pay out more than you can afford from income and justify it by balancing it with having lived rent free for a while?

It seems that you do need your own place for a while for your own stability and the financial advantage of living with parents is a cushion that is preventing you from stepping into the unknown.

michaels

I was going to suggest the shame re a share although I understand this may not work for you but may be with 2 in a 3 bed place?

SS I know we are not local but I have a brand new 22 inch tv/dvd/monitor from tesco plus a pc (fairly old but fine for internet/word/powerpoint) which need to go on ebay but I'm sure if you were interested I could let you have it for mates prices...

silvercar wrote: »

Difficult one. Would you consider taking on a 3 bed and renting out one of the rooms? That way you get to choose a flat mate you feel you can live with.

Would you be happy to pay out more than you can afford from income and justify it by balancing it with having lived rent free for a while?

It seems that you do need your own place for a while for your own stability and the financial advantage of living with parents is a cushion that is preventing you from stepping into the unknown.

LydiaJ

I don't think PN wants a flatmate.

PN, I was wondering if you'd considered West Wales. You're used to Cornwall, so maybe you wouldn't mind being somewhere remote, and property prices tend to be lower there. Not many employment opportunities, of course, but if you're going to carry on with the internet stuff and the jewellery plan - not to mention your plan to cut rocks in half or whatever it is, then that wouldn't matter. You could be near the sea, too. Have a look at these two properties in Carmarthen - both have parking, and both are under £400pcm.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-32354189.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-31084190.html

PasturesNew

I don't want to be remote, I was looking at Dorset, then I signed up for these evening classes so have to hang around for them to finish.... leaving me 2 months, so not long enough to move out now, then again, or I'd be stuck in a 6 month AST.

Also, Dorset was coming up pricier than here by £100/month or so.

I need to be able to get back/down where I am fairly quickly for the next 5-10 years, but I want to be close to a main railway line and the seaside and shops and jobs and learning.

And I can't share for lots of reasons, not least of which is that I am an all night prowler, often to be found outside at 3am. And I have to have things "just so". And I can't settle at all, nor sleep, when anybody else is about whatsoever.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-32354189.html

That's gorgeous!!

misskool

any tech geeks in today? I need to make a database and have been informed ms access is a pain.

So looking for solutions. ideas please

tomterm8

Pastures new, is there any parking spaces near your parents house that you can use to put a caravan? If there is, is it possible buy a cheap caravan and set it up as an office to give yourself some space to work in that isn't "home"? Or even a garage, or a shed at an allotment? Or a friends spare bedroom you can rent? Somewhere that isn't your parents that you can be when you are working on the computer?

I know it is a temporary solution, but at least something like that might be a step forward...

misskool wrote: »

any tech geeks in today? I need to make a database and have been informed ms access is a pain.

So looking for solutions. ideas please

What kind of database? What is it for?

misskool

tomterm8 wrote: »

What kind of database? What is it for?

I have a number of studies, with different patients, each patient has numerous samples stored in different locations. I need a magic computer whizzy thing that tells me exactly where everything is for that single patient.

so far, I have 4 excel spreadsheets and it's getting painful....

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Pastures new, is there any parking spaces near your parents house that you can use to put a caravan? If there is, is it possible buy a cheap caravan and set it up as an office to give yourself some space to work in that isn't "home"? Or even a garage, or a shed at an allotment? Or a friends spare bedroom you can rent? Somewhere that isn't your parents that you can be when you are working on the computer?

No, nothing at all or I'd have thought of that. Parking/any spare bit of space, is at a premium - and wouldn't have water/electricity either.

Shortage of affordable places round these parts of all types as anybody who owns anything is rented to tourists at higher rates.

I look every day for 2-3 hours at all the permutations/combinations of renting, buying, caravanning, etc etc. And I just can't make it fit.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

any tech geeks in today? I need to make a database and have been informed ms access is a pain.

So looking for solutions. ideas please

MS Access isn't a pain, but there is a significant learning curve associated with learning how relational databases work - and then the next stage which is programming it to do stuff automatically/just how you want it.