Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

Not too cold now, we have a few plug in heaters, (dogs have one on now)

Posh alert!

LIR, I've got a couple of electric heaters somewhere if you want to borrow them* (I ask, as I think you're in Herts).

CK

*If I can find them, as I've not used them for around 4 years.

lostinrates

Thanks, but not in herts, ( only greater herts) and we have some. Besides, decision now made its really ironing out details and I expect we can have it in within a month.

In that at least I have driven quite a hard bargain.....

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Housing and therefore transport - because people often have to live quite a long way from where they work (housing costs) and to reduce those costs, have to pay more to travel.

If people live outside London it can be expensive to get in (no figures to check compare-v- travelling around other parts of the country), but once you're there that Oyster card's cheap as chips compared to most local bus services elsewhere.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

If people live outside London it can be expensive to get in (no figures to check compare-v- travelling around other parts of the country), but once you're there that Oyster card's cheap as chips compared to most local bus services elsewhere.

I dunno, I haven't thought about it. Travel (dh's element of travel) is our second biggest expense after housing. And yet he walks to and from work (if he's late the office pay for a taxi). The train is many times more than my petrol in a gas guzzling car would be for a local commute to work. Similarly, when DH commuted by train to a near by city from our last house that cost a lot more than the petrol and keeping a car on the road would have done too.

chewmylegoff

Zag - the big white tower is now up for auction.

From an initial listing price of (I think) £2.5m they have set a guide price of £850,000.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40160750.html

It's out of our price range unfortunately, so you've got a free run at it.

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

I dunno, I haven't thought about it. Travel (dh's element of travel) is our second biggest expense after housing. And yet he walks to and from work (if he's late the office pay for a taxi). The train is many times more than my petrol in a gas guzzling car would be for a local commute to work. Similarly, when DH commuted by train to a near by city from our last house that cost a lot more than the petrol and keeping a car on the road would have done too.

I'm the other way, and probably cheaper on the train, but 3 hours each way certainly isn't good!

I'm not in the congestion charging zone for work, but even my large (by 'normal' car terms) estate car does 50mpg on the daily commute, with a 3.0 diesel.

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Zag - the big white tower is now up for auction.

From an initial listing price of (I think) £2.5m they have set a guide price of £850,000.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40160750.html

It's out of our price range unfortunately, so you've got a free run at it.

Why is it described as detached? It is clearly joined onto at least one of its neighbours. Although I suppose once you get up a storey or three the rest of it is detached.

I imagine the stairs put a lot of people off. You could probably add a lot of value to it by making the spiral stairs slightly narrower and adding a glass lift up the centre of the spiral.

michaels

It costs my work 97.70 a week for me to get there and back on the train, I'm glad it doesn't come out of my net pay :eek:
A single ion the bus from the station to the stop nearest mine which I guess is about a mile and a bit is £2.30 :eek: Diesel to go that far by car would be 25p (but parking is about £9 per day at the station :eek:)

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

It costs my work 97.70 a week for me to get there and back on the train, I'm glad it doesn't come out of my net pay :eek:
A single ion the bus from the station to the stop nearest mine which I guess is about a mile and a bit is £2.30 :eek: Diesel to go that far by car would be 25p (but parking is about £9 per day at the station :eek:)

I'm £29.40 per day, which taking into account £100 a week of diesel, £30 a week in servicing and £20 a week in insurance, that puts me better off on the train already.

Also, having the car, there's that bit of 'I'll just go out for lunch', sitting at around 10mph, at about 20mpg. If I was on the train, I certainly wouldn't!

CK

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

It costs my work 97.70 a week for me to get there and back on the train, I'm glad it doesn't come out of my net pay :eek:
A single ion the bus from the station to the stop nearest mine which I guess is about a mile and a bit is £2.30 :eek: Diesel to go that far by car would be 25p (but parking is about £9 per day at the station :eek:)

Many bus passes don't cost a lot less - going to meagre-pay jobs in nowheresville.

£2-3 was what I typically paid to get 2 miles into towns last time I used buses.

Here there are "weekly tickets" but only for one bus co - and there are three companies, who are supposed to work together but they don't, so it's confusing to even buy a bus ticket that gets you from A to B. Just checked. It'd cost me £24/week for a ticket to get to a lot of places, up to about 10 miles away. After that it's another ticket. Also, transport's unreliable and there are no interconnecting routes.