Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

SingleSue

I live in the fair land which is Suffolk, weird folk here....very strange with a very flat accent which I detest (I should have the same accent having been born here but mine is a mix between posh and cockney!) and makes people sound rather educationally deficient, I still can't get my head around Suffolk folk and their weird and (not quite so) wonderful ways.

I have also been to Norfolk.....my parent's have a caravan there.

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

yeah but as long as you boil them for long enough before eating, they're perfectly safe.

:A

This is pretty much what the catering manager at my local hospital said about a cockroach outbreak they had.

SingleSue

Re the papers we have here, there is the East Anglian which tends to concentrate on Ipswich right up to almost Great Yarmouth and only a tiny bit on the town which is only 10 miles from Ipswich or the Evening Star.....we now have our very own edition of that paper which is supposed to be full of our local news...but tends to have just as much crap about Ipswich as the Ipswich version.

All run by Archant though...same as the EDP.

PasturesNew

It's absolutely SCORCHING out there. Sweating buckets as I just packed/re-packed 4 small boxes in a polycarbonate-roofed south-facing lean to!!

Just resting before dashing to the storage man .... perchance to catch him on-site, perchance to discuss a change of unit. I am now on Plan G with the storage situation.

The more time you have, or think you have, the more your attitudes and approaches change to what you have to do and how it can best be achieved.

PasturesNew

Caravans are so cheap on average in Norfolk/Suffolk ... down 'ere they be sky-high!! They're even more expensive where I'm going to....

At least down here, if you close your eyes to where they are, it is possible to get one under £20k ... where I'm going to the same rule would yield a £45k price tag ....

I was kinda hoping to snap one up for sub-£10k (pre-waking up).

GDB2222

I checked the prices at a Caravan site in North Norfolk: £10,000 minimum to buy a caravan (up to £45,000), plus £3000 a year to rent a spot to put it on. The caravan has to be renewed every 15 years, and the new one has to be bought from the site owners. If you amortise the cost of the caravan at say £2,000 a year, this works out at £5000 a year, before you start paying for any utilities. I am not sure if there is council tax on a caravan?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I checked the prices at a Caravan site in North Norfolk: £10,000 minimum to buy a caravan (up to £45,000), plus £3000 a year to rent a spot to put it on. The caravan has to be renewed every 15 years, and the new one has to be bought from the site owners. If you amortise the cost of the caravan at say £2,000 a year, this works out at £5000 a year, before you start paying for any utilities. I am not sure if there is council tax on a caravan?

Yeah - and you pay 10% to the site owner when you sell it.

There are "rates" to pay, typically £200-400/year as it's a holiday home. And then there's electricity and gas and a TV license and insurance. Then you need to drain it down every winter and re-fill it every spring.

However, there are some sites cheaper than £3k ... which is a bit toppy for a single unit... that's kind of 4-5 star... I was figuring £1800-2000/year for site fees... and then they sting you VAT too at 20%

But, I figured if I could get one for, say, £10k, pay £2k/year rent on the pitch, "live" in it 9 months (some allow this/some not), then over 3 years that'd be £16k spent on the roof over my head - and the van'd have some residual value at the end, call it £6k, with £1k going to the site owner, working out at £16k - £5k = £11k. Over 9 months that'd be like £400/month - and where I'm looking for somewhere it'd be about £500/month for a flat (with annoying/noisy feral neighbours).

Then, of course, there's the issue of where you can go, and at what cost, in the other 3 months - so it's not a cut and dried solution.... but worthy of investigation at least. Mathematically it never quite stacks up for me though, but I do like to keep looking.

Once they hit £20k, of course, it's completely off the radar.... anything £15k and under would catch my eye though ... until I got the spreadsheet out.

So .... I have a secret Plan C I am also investigating, which is similar, but cheaper.

GDB2222

But PN, if you pay £500/mth for a real flat, you can live in it 12 months of the year.

Anyway, this one is under £400/mth. Near where we just came back from. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-36597029.html

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

But PN, if you pay £500/mth for a real flat, you can live in it 12 months of the year.

Anyway, this one is under £400/mth. Near where we just came back from. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-36597029.html

Yes, but that's in a cheap area of the country ... and I won't be anywhere near there.

Where I'm going to, something as lovely as that (which, let's face it, is the converted garage with the LL peering out the window at you all the time no doubt) would be more like £600/month (I just checked on RM).

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, but that's in a cheap area of the country ... and I won't be anywhere near there.

Where I'm going to, something as lovely as that (which, let's face it, is the converted garage with the LL peering out the window at you all the time no doubt) would be more like £600/month (I just checked on RM).

What are your criteria for choosing an area? The great thing is you are your own boss and can be wherever your quality of life is best...right?