Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Posh alert - intending to buy a house, any house. In our neck of the woods, the cheapest house is £625,000 and that's a one bed house less than 600 sq ft. Flats are cheaper, though (-:

http://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/31343789?search_identifier=31a2f55f8be6e70c02f29b5ee5af9f6e

To be fair - that's neat. It's got everything .... large lounge, dining room, not the smallest kitchen in the world, good sized bedroom .... a balcony and parking - and it's a house!

Per square foot it costs about 3x what the same thing would be here as it's £1081/sq ft. Most expensive per sq ft "cheap houses" I've found round here were £469/sq ft. Average is a bit over £300.

Actually, I just realised my error .... my prices/sq ft are for 2-3 bed houses, which are cheaper per sq ft than a 1-bed. That £469/sq ft price is the only price I have for a 1bed.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the size of my bedroom from age 11-26

Did you have to get a special bed made?

neverdespairgirl

Our flat, 2 years ago, cost £480 / sq foot. No parking, but does have a decent sized courtyard (for central London, that is) about 30 feet by 8 feet in size.

vivatifosi

Ours was £225 psf but that was a long time ago and houses were cheaper. Now is just under £300. Here they have trouble reaching the ceiling prices of local developments because we can't have GCH.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Did you have to get a special bed made?

No, it was 6' and could be made to just fit.... just. So long as you got it dead straight.

michaels

Spirit wrote: »

Where do you find this stuff? And why?

I was watching one of those top 100 of the year shows, saw this, thought !!!!!!? Played it next day on youtube and the kids knew all about it, apparently it is a school disco/party staple (DS went to a party today where it was played) :eek:

Edit: I blame the drugs, in my day kids listened to innocent ditties like this

We have 4 wired detectors, 3 legacy detectors which are gradually having batteries removed when they start beeping and 1 CO detgector (did have 2 but the battery finished on one.

Property costs under 100 per sqf build costs so if land was made available then it should not cost much more than that.

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

In my experience trains have always been more expensive than driving - even when there's only one person in the car. Takes longer on the train too, often.

From my home to my parents in Inner Herts it takes about 3 1/2 hours by car and probably £60? in petrol return. I can travel by train to Stevenage in less than 2 hours, for less than £20 each way. Plus about 30 minutes from Stevenage to my parents' house and the petrol cost for that.

Assuming advance booking, it's both quicker and cheaper to travel by train. But for 2 people it's obviously cheaper to drive (though still slower).

vivatifosi wrote: »

Has anyone else found the BBC's forecasts particularly rubbish lately? They constantly tell me I can step out of the house in to beautiful sunshine when it is totally tipping down. Netweather seems a bit better though, as would be the Met Office if I could work out what region they think Hertfordshire is in. From their maps it is not straightforward.

I remember trying to look at Inner Herts on the Met Office some time ago. The trouble I had was that there weren't any RAF(?) weather station locations nearby which you match up with the house location so the forecasts were a bit hit and miss.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe get a bit of land there. Build a house from watertight containers - leaving the doors in situ and open.... when it rains, rush round and shut all the container doors..... and there'd be a set of stairs onto the 2nd storey, which'd be a self contained, solar-powered, studio room, with balcony and inflatable dinghy.

I think you're restricting yourself unnecessarily there. Go for a paraglider from the 2nd story. Means no jumping into an inflatable dinghy

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

Edit: I blame the drugs, in my day kids listened to innocent ditties like this


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That is more like it.

I must be getting old. I asked DD and she had heard of it (the fox song), OH had not heard it but when i gave teh title expected it to be a double entendre, so no surprise there.

Spirit_2

OH is watching country file, there is a lovely old chap on, OH has commented that he is beautifully dressed - tweed check jacket, tattersal shirt and a tie.

I know what he means as he just looks so 'proper' like someone picked him out of a story book. In his Sunday best for being respectable.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I go from here to where mum is now, it takes me under 4 hours by car and fuel cost is about £60 return.

Train is 5-6 hours, with 2-3 changes and cheapest cost if I want to go on Tuesday is £121 return. Anytime return is £308.

If I randomly pick Wed 19 March as the date there/20th return, then cheapest is still identical, £121.

I can also not carry as much stuff, I can't leave when I want, I still have to get 1 mile to the station here and 1 mile at the other end.... and I have to go when the trains run. -v- Lob stuff into the car, anything I might want on a whim. Leave when I'm ready, without even looking at the clock .... and go door to door.

Its the 'whim'. And the restrictions.


E.g. DH's first non peak train gets in at eight. Occasionally he's got to the station to try and upgrade to one beore.....peak, and not as full as the first couple of off peaks, because people are waiting for them.

Edit : DH usually stands all the way home on the train that gets in just after eight because its packed, all the way out. Packed to the brim. Quite often he just goes to the bar and doesn't bother looking anywhere else, gets a drink and reads.