Moving house and area after 22 years- help please

carolbee

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

Yes, there are some nice coastal towns in Thanet and Broadstairs. We will be moving to a 6 bed period house for the same money as our pokey 3 bed terrace in Reading.

You're welcome to your boxey shire county newbuilds. Most of these Thames Valley shire towns are dragged down by fake house prices, a$$h0le neighbours, chavs and a generation of feral no-hopers.

Thanet wins my vote.

Welcome to thanet, on a day like today it's glorious, just back from second visit to beach today, in true MSE style with flask of coffee and home made cake, sea warming up a treat, where are you planning to move to, PM me if you want any info, or a coffee and a bit of said cake when you move down

makeyourdaddyproud

Thank you for introduction offer, we are moving to Cliftonville. Had our offer accepted a week ago. Just outside Broadstairs.

We considered Ramsgate, but it seems to have gone downhill in recent years.

ttaylor

I agree with makeyourdaddyproud, I live in Reading and I find it pretty depressing. Yes it's good if you want to visit or if you work in London, and in the suburbs it's safe/quiet but as mentioned prices are ridiculous and the area uninspiring. I long to get out of here to be honest and live somewhere on the coast with lower house prices and a slower pace, but would still like a train station at the very least.

love_lifer

Ttaylor my house will be available soon, train station nearby...

moneyistooshorttomention

So you've made a definite decision to sell then have you Lovelifer?

love_lifer

Not quite. I'm still unsure, but I've started planning- getting rid of stuff, gathering info about different areas, talking to friends.... I've taken on some of the points made on this thread and want to make the best decision I can,if that makes sense. Don't want to rush or procrastinate.

Is your house move going well money?

mezebu1

I think you should pack up and move @OP. Life is too short to have to contend with people who have insisted on displaying antisocial behavior.. You're obviously not happy where you are and life has got to be enjoyed!

We moved to the south eastern version of Bradford as FTBs last year. Of course we were aware of the town's reputation but we naively believed only our neighborhood mattered, we used tools like acorn classification to streamline a good post code and bought there. We have fantastic neighbors but we absolutely detest the town center, so depressing, also we started reading reports of terrible crimes in the town. We found that we were constantly travelling back to Essex to visit with family and friends as we couldn't just integrate. We decided this is not the sort of town we want our child to grow and took the hard decision to sell up and we are now moving back to a town considered to be the 5th best place to live in the UK :j:rotfl: . We have friends there and our family live just 30 minutes away...

southoftheriver

I lived in Thanet for a year and liked it for the most part. Unfortunately some areas have been neglected but it has some beautiful hidden spots. My job means I have to move around a lot but if I didn't, a house by the sea would be lovely. I also wish the high speed train from St Pancras didn't stop being high speed at Ashford, but you can't have everything!

moneyistooshorttomention

love_lifer wrote: »

Not quite. I'm still unsure, but I've started planning- getting rid of stuff, gathering info about different areas, talking to friends.... I've taken on some of the points made on this thread and want to make the best decision I can,if that makes sense. Don't want to rush or procrastinate.

Is your house move going well money?

Yep...making the best decision you can makes sense to me. No point in hurrying through such a major decision in your mind and I'd go with full evaluation in your position.

In your position, I'd also be running through what I personally am running through in my mind. That is, "how long do I expect to have this place or, alternatively, any new place I move to?".

I have evaluated my current house and area as totally unsuitable for someone like myself for an estimated 25-30 years and am moving accordingly. The area as a whole probably remained pretty "static" for about 20-25 years after I moved to it, but these days its changing at an absolute rate of knots and not for the better and I am concerned about just how much it will change during the rest of my life. My estimate is that it will remain what it currently is in the "some cultural diversity aspect" (rather than a monoculture of either "our or other" variety), but the level of people here will positively explode over the rest of my lifetime and people like myself who require a level of "space" and "privacy" will become largely prisoners in our own home (hence my sympathies with that poor 90 year old woman trapped in her flat in unsympathetique surroundings that a poster mentioned). I don't want to be that woman and am taking avoiding action in plenty of time to make sure I'm not iyswim.

As for how my housebuying venture is going, the answer is "All good...as far as I know". I think my buyer is waiting as patiently as possible for what is (realistically in anyone's opinion) the few weeks between it all "getting going" and our Contracts Exchanged stage. As regards the place I am buying, it's a set-up that is new to me in some respects and I am a bit nervous about the "new" aspects, but am reminding myself that no-one ever knows just what might happen in the future in the locality they are currently in. In my own case, there are bad things that I just knew of an absolute certainty could not possibly happen in my current location and I didn't have to worry about them.....and then they did...there is always one "stupid b&gger" who gets up to the "impossible" and ruins things and...yep..I got the "stupid b&gger" near me:(....so there ARE no guarantees in life...as even okay circumstances can be transmuted by some blimmin' idiot...but my current house was never ever the one I was going to stay in for the "rest of..." anyway.

Fingers crossed for both of us that we make/have made the right decisions eh:)

Dimey

You make a lot of sense, money etc.

I've just got one of those blooming idiots move near me. I'm hoping it will calm down

What county are you moving to?