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What does £200k buy you in Britain away from the cities?
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According to Rightmove, £200k won't buy you anything at all within 2 miles of my current (village) postcode.0
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Where is that?
Looks lovely!...room to extend, land, by the beach...looks in middle of nowhere potentially but idilic in lots of ways.
Gairloch in NW Scotland.
You can find it on https://www.HSPC.co.uk“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Borehamwood was nicer in 2006 than it is now, it was in a commutable zone, whilst being near my wife's family and not too far into London. It's also a lot cheaper than the neighbouring Shenley/radlet/esltree areas. I did move from renting in the Brent Cross/golders green area, and would have no intentions of living there.Prices for 2/3 bed terraces in the area around Brent cross were about 200k a few years ago and now 400k+. If you had the foresight to buy in 2006 why did you buy in Borehamwood?
We bought when we were ready to buy our first house, not as a financial investment. You will be glad to know that the £300k house we moved into in 2011 in Bricket Wood has risen in value much faster
The only thing you can buy here for under 200k is very temporary looking fixed caravans0 -
Borehamwood has quickly got more grim. They're building flats EVERYWHERE, the high street has gone to hell, the traffic is terrible. But they are getting a debenhams soon0
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If you went a bit over your budget i might be talked into selling mine.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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