Your thoughts please

Fire_Fox

la_farfallina wrote: »

Fire Fox, I will investigate Yorkshire, thanks for the tips.

Actually, daddy was a Yorkshire man but he cleared off when I was three years old. Haven't seen or heard from him since.

I lived in Yorkshire as a toddler....Keighly. Apparently I spoke with a Yorkshire accent as a kid so I should fit in there.

I do find it easy to talk to strangers, although not in the area that I live in at the moment. Very few people speak English here.

Doctor has given me steroid cream for me hands but I can't use it too often as it thins the skin eventually.

Lanolin makes me hands itch so much that I want to chew them off.

I know of Keighley: come back up to Yorkshire! :T Perhaps you have cousins you have not met?

Corticosteroids are indeed evil. :mad: Which type of lanolin did you try? There was a lot of contaminated stuff back in the day, full of ovine proteins and farming chemicals. Medical grade is considered hypoallergenic by the British Allergy Foundation tho.

If you don't want to risk a patch test of lanolin consider a cream that contains some combination of cholesterol, saturated fatty acids or ceramides. Lactic acid and niacinamide help increase ceramide production when applied topically. There has been so much research into the skin barrier (stratus corneum) in the last decade or so. Tons of interesting research on the anti-inflammatory, wound healing and collagen inducing properties of aloe vera too.

Notmyrealname

If you walked out of your property with £50k in your pocket there are plenty of places in South/West Yorkshire where that would pretty much buy a property outright and even though not in the best areas, certainly not as bad as where you are now.

pmlindyloo

My opinion (for what it's worth!)

Yes, definitely sell up but give yourself some time before you decide to buy again (if indeed that is what you decide to do)

In your circumstances I would be selling and spending time to sort out where I want to live/finding another job etc etc. Spend some weekends, if you can, visiting different places and sussing out the area.

To make sure that you don't make a mistake and move somewhere that you absolutely hate I would rent in the first place and take some time to see if you like the area/job.

For all its faults, renting does give you much more flexibility as regards moving on.

la_farfallina

Thank you all for your thoughts. I don't know how to quote snippets from your posts unfortunately.

Fire Fox - I spent some time last night researching Yorkshire. Some of it looks very beautiful indeed.

Apparently I have a half sister who I have never met.
Maybe we could go on Jeremy Kyle...."daddy, why did you leave us?"
Except that I am not ugly enough.

I will start googling for creams...what keywords would I need to put in?

Pineapple - I only ever work two to three shifts a week and space them out so that my hands don't get inflamed. The RCN are doing a study at the moment on contact dermatitis. They say around a thousand nurses a year are getting it and many have to stop working because of it.
My nursing registration is due for renewal in a couple of months and I don't plan to continue.
I will seek work in care homes as a support worker. Or work with homeless, mental health, that kind of thing.

LindyLou - Over the next few months I am going to start doing a kind of mini tour of England staying in bed and breakfasts for a couple of days in each area.
Its quite exciting really.

pmlindyloo

la_farfallina wrote: »

Thank you all for your thoughts. I don't know how to quote snippets from your posts unfortunately.

Fire Fox - I spent some time last night researching Yorkshire. Some of it looks very beautiful indeed.

Apparently I have a half sister who I have never met.
Maybe we could go on Jeremy Kyle...."daddy, why did you leave us?"
Except that I am not ugly enough.

I will start googling for creams...what keywords would I need to put in?

Pineapple - I only ever work two to three shifts a week and space them out so that my hands don't get inflamed. The RCN are doing a study at the moment on contact dermatitis. They say around a thousand nurses a year are getting it and many have to stop working because of it.
My nursing registration is due for renewal in a couple of months and I don't plan to continue.
I will seek work in care homes as a support worker. Or work with homeless, mental health, that kind of thing.

LindyLou - Over the next few months I am going to start doing a kind of mini tour of England staying in bed and breakfasts for a couple of days in each area.
Its quite exciting really.

The mini tour sounds wonderful - I agree, very exciting

pinkteapot

Agree with the others - life's too short for this.

Your friends referred to the property ladder. Property prices aren't rising (in most parts of the country at least) so selling up and renting for a bit won't hurt you much at all. When you get older and want to retire, it's better to own if possible as usually by that point you're mortgage free, so have no mortgage or rent to pay.

With the lump sum you'll free up, I personally would indeed sell and rent somewhere new for a year say. If you find somewhere you like, then buy. If not, move again until you do.

If you choose the best buy savings accounts the interest from your lump sum will pay part of your rent anyway so you won't be running the capital down too much.

phoebe1989seb

Just to echo what pmlindyloo said about not rushing into buying in a new area - we did just that when we downsized in 2007. DH hated everything that went with living in a big city on the South Coast and with our DS just heading off to uni we decided to up-sticks and move somewhere new and a bit quieter. It was a terrible decision - the only good thing being that we became mortgage free

As DH was going to become self-employed we had virtually the whole country to choose from, but instead of doing our research thoroughly we found what looked like the perfect house (and it would have been, had it been almost anywhere else ) and leapt straight in. The area, although in theory much quieter, had far more crime and the people were awful. Suffice to say we spent the most unhappy three years of our lives till we sold up and moved again last year......

The idea of a mini-tour around England sounds like an excellent idea - good luck OP, hope you find happiness and a fresh start in a lovely part of the country

oldoakey

Why not check the Police website crime checker (police.uk)for the area you are thinking of as even we in bonny Yorkshire get our share of crime, although I don't think it would be anything near as bad as what you have to put up with.

debrag

now I'm intrigued as to which borough/area you live

la_farfallina

debrag wrote: »

now I'm intrigued as to which borough/area you live

Let's just say it isn't Richmond upon Thames.
And that we have shops that sell c o c k soup and fufu flour:D