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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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PasturesNew wrote: »You're a couple - and were younger and hadn't had many knocks... which all dent confidence. I am getting older now and don't want to be cut off/lonely in a place where there's nothing about (e.g. a village away from the towns).
I'd like to be able to be within walking/cycling distance of things and stuff that are useful.
Couples can go anywhere - they've got each other for company, companionship and just "getting out there to see what's about".
STEREOTYPE ALERT:)
Not all house buyers are couples,e.g Nikkster
Not all house buyers a young e.g Bertie
Couples change e.g Single Sue
Knocks. Plenty before the age of 40, more after. As the saying goes, the past is for learning from, not living in.0 -
Do any Nice People have tips for dealing with stress? I'm struggling a bit at the moment.
Compartmentalise. Identify what the stressful areas are and restrict the time you spend thinking about them. Do some sport/ running around/ pick up a hobby you have laid aside.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
I missed a page and got confused that you were all answering posts I hadn't seen. Felt like being a parallel universe.PasturesNew wrote: »
I also despair when they are describing a studio flat and say it's in a particular school catchment area.... who are their target audience? P4ed0s?
Teachers.PasturesNew wrote: »I'd imagine that FB groups are hit and miss ... people talk about FB selling pages - I've never seen one, nor uncovered one to date.
Just put the name of your area or county in the facebook search group. Or try "buy" or "sell" or even "clutter".I had to look it up, too.
Really? ROFLMAOI'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
Well, that's made me feel really great, SC. I'll have to bone up on my TLAs, just so I'm not an object of derision.
Seriously, it's like those quiz shows when you know a particular answer but the contestant doesn't. It's obvious! How can he/she not know something as simple as that?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
We are band F and pay £2000+ pa.
Seems OK to have the bins emptied alternate weeks.
We are band G. I followed the MSE guide to checking that you shouldn't be in a lower band...and realised we should really be in a higher band, so kept quiet.
Also our water bills are based on the old rateable value of the property, even though we are in a compulsary metering area. The guides say compare the number of people with the number of bedrooms, but this was was rated when it was a lot smaller than it is now, so again we save.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
My DH was a teacher for 30 years, still works in a school now.
Never wanted to live in the school catchment area - didn't want his pupils/parents popping up over the garden fence!
That's a big part of choosing location in those kinds of jobs. Close enough to get to work easily but not so convenient that pupils will live there too. You have to run a car and choose places that are not too well-connected by public transport.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
And didn't we previously say that good school catchment areas will attract the sort of people you would want as neighbours and the reverse? PN worries about Ferral kids hangin' - you get much less of that in good school catchment areas.I think....0
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