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Romford or Grays or Basildon

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  • Landofwood
    Landofwood Posts: 765 Forumite
    macman wrote: »
    How are you going to buy and pay a mortgage '2 or 3 bedroom house or flat' (so that covers about 80% of the national housing stock) on a salary of £16.5K?
    That's before you pay for your car, gym, and music and language lessons for your as-yet unborn children. Not forgetting the immediate extension to your leasehold property...

    Confirmed troll.
  • spezial
    spezial Posts: 348 Forumite
    another ridiculous accusation of trolling
    well, salaries rise, you know?
  • bouicca21
    bouicca21 Posts: 6,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    A troll with far too much time on his/her hands.
  • Missus_Hyde
    Missus_Hyde Posts: 539 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 500 Posts Photogenic
    bouicca21 wrote: »
    A troll with far too much time on his/her hands.

    A troll with a strong predilection for telling porkies. ;)
    A cunning plan, Baldrick? Whatever it was, it's got to be better than pretending to be mad; after all, who'd notice another mad person around here?.......Edmund Blackadder.
  • japmis
    japmis Posts: 452 Forumite
    Another wonderful Spezial thread :rotfl:
  • booksurr
    booksurr Posts: 3,700 Forumite
    spezial wrote: »
    another ridiculous accusation of trolling
    well, salaries rise, you know?
    indeed they do, but not in your case, given the time you spend trolling rather than improving your own qualifications and prospects
  • SG27
    SG27 Posts: 2,773 Forumite
    Doesn't look like you can afford Romford or Wickford. Basildon it is!
  • Landofwood
    Landofwood Posts: 765 Forumite
    SG27 wrote: »
    Doesn't look like you can afford Romford or Wickford. Basildon it is!

    Saves on transport costs too as you can walk to Laindon from Basildon!
  • westv
    westv Posts: 6,461 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    What about Pitsea? Really up and coming and a magnet for the rich and famous.
  • slby
    slby Posts: 2 Newbie
    I'd pick Grays or Romford over Basildon. I have lived there and it isn't great plus there is threat of a big development. Romford has a bad rep but it isn't that bad. Good transport links and some nice parts. Grays is okay if you go to North Grays. Chafford Hundred is fine if you like new developments. Any where on the c2c line is good as is much better service than the others.
    Of course as other posters say there are better areas but you asked about these 3.
    Schools are probably better in the havering area. They are bad in Basildon.
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