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Tell me I'm deluded please!
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We sold a studio flat in Crawley for £91K about 18 months ago...... can't see £115K going far in West Sussex.Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £229.82, Octopoints £4.27, Topcashback £290.85, Tesco Clubcard challenges £60, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £10.
Total £915.94/£2025 45.2%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Intt £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus referral reward £50, Octopoints £70.46, Topcashback £112.03, Shopmium referral £3, Iceland bonus £4, Ipsos survey £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
Sell your iPad and you'll be able to raise your budget by a few hundred.."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0
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Indeed, the county is expensive. I don't see you getting far with that amount I'm afraid.0
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You are deluded. Might be able to get 3 beds in Broadfield in Crawley for about £130-140k...but you might not want to live in it.They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato0
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Why west sussex? Thats a whole county. Can you not expand your area into east sussex, kent or surrey?
Not cheapies either, but at least will give you more options.Mortgage debt - [STRIKE]£8,811.47 [/STRIKE] Paid off!0 -
Mr_Thrifty wrote: »Look, this is 2012, not 1965.
The days of getting a detached bungalow with 300ft garden for tuppence and ha'penny are long gone. The oldies took all the land, together with the north sea oil and the nationalised industries. After all, their final salary pension schemes "needed" it. Now, anybody got a free bus pass, gym membership and TV licence I can borrow please?
That chip on your shoulder seems to be weighing you down somewhat. If you got rid, you might not have such a lop-sided view of things.
PS Everyone else,OP started another thread, clarifying things, a bit.0 -
That chip on your shoulder seems to be weighing you down somewhat. If you got rid, you might not have such a lop-sided view of things.
PS Everyone else,OP started another thread, clarifying things, a bit.
Well yes, you are right. It just annoys me, that's all. All those old folk acting like they somehow worked harder or were smarter than the young ones, hogging the housing stock and their unbelievably irritating sense of self-entitlement. Acting like some sort of superior class, just because so many of them have large houses of the sort that these day only an investment banker could afford (despite themselves typically having been blue collar workers or worked in low-end office jobs). It makes me really, really angry - to the point that it's a distraction for me. You're right, I just need to calm down over it and not get so wound up. If I had my way, I'd take their pension funds and use it to pay off the country's national debt. After all, it's their decades of excess that created the debt in the first place. I'd also crank up the upper bands of council tax for the oldies to the point that it frees up the housing stock again whilst enabling them to nonetheless find somewhere to live that's more suited to their income (which is typically very low despite having huge expensive houses).0 -
You do talk some crap0
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Quite so - if OP does find something in West Sx for that money, would be well advised to check very carefully why it's that price?!You are deluded. Might be able to get 3 beds in Broadfield in Crawley for about £130-140k...but you might not want to live in it.Favours are returned ... Trust is earned
Reality is an illusion ... don't knock it
There's a fine line between faith and arrogance ... Heaven only knows where the line is
Being like everyone else when it's right, is as important as being different when it's right
The interpretation you're most likely to believe, is the one you most want to believe0
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