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OY Pasturesnew - stop encouraging peopleto move down here!!

PasturesNew

wannabedebtfree wrote: »

OY Pasturesnew - stop encouraging peopleto move down here!!

:P
Maybe they can't afford it either.... they never gave their budget that I spotted.
Talking of encouraging .... I sold my house in Cornwall to incomers

tonydee

Buy my house on the Isle of Wight

Norma_Desmond

I'm biased, but you can't go wrong with Pembrokeshire; compared with Cornwall say, prices are still relatively reasonable as we're so remote but the coastline knocks socks off most other places.
You'll pay a premium for places like Tenby on the south coast, but I prefer the 'wild north' from St Davids right along to Cardigan (Ceredigion).

PasturesNew

One thing I'd urge you to do is not look at what you can afford, but to make a list of what you need from a new location.

I'd also suggest that you should sell, rent, then buy - so you don't make a mistake.

e.g. Cornwall - might look nice, but you can't buy things you need there, cost of living is high, public transport's rotten, roads are chocker with tourists when the weather's nice, nearest motorway is 90 miles away, access to good shops is non-existant/limited. No jobs unless you work in the public sector (and even then I bet there's a queue as long as your arm for them).

You don't want to end up buying a house then finding out you haven't got your personal basics available just because you thought everywhere'd be the same as what you're used to.

seven-day-weekend

PasturesNew wrote: »

Devon/Dorset border - there's a whole coastline of fossils that just fall out of the cliffs at Charmouth, next to Lyme Regis.

Yes, this is the same seam of rock that also comes out at Whitby and my husband would love to live there (so would I); he has been a rockhound since he was a small boy, but the area is over budget. So is West Wales unfortunately.

Loks like the northeast then.

seven-day-weekend

PasturesNew wrote: »

One thing I'd urge you to do is not look at what you can afford, but to make a list of what you need from a new location.

I'd also suggest that you should sell, rent, then buy - so you don't make a mistake.

e.g. Cornwall - might look nice, but you can't buy things you need there, cost of living is high, public transport's rotten, roads are chocker with tourists when the weather's nice, nearest motorway is 90 miles away, access to good shops is non-existant/limited. No jobs unless you work in the public sector (and even then I bet there's a queue as long as your arm for them).

You don't want to end up buying a house then finding out you haven't got your personal basics available just because you thought everywhere'd be the same as what you're used to.

I agree with what you say, but need to mention that we don't need jobs as we are retired and are also used to living in the middle of nowhere and not being able to get things where we live in Spain, but don't particularly want to do it again.

Budget at the absolute top would be £200k, although we'd prefer to pay less, so I know we can't afford areas we'd like to live in like the southwest and the Gower. We will be paying cash and don't want (and probably can't get) a mortgage, so there is no way we can go higher.

But I'm sure there are still plenty of places we can afford! Thanks all for your input.

Ian_W

In to-days Daily Express [p27 of our edition] under the title,
Yes, you CAN afford to live beside the seaside
it quotes Halifax figures for the most affordable locations as:
Bridlington
Lowestoft
Great Yarmouth
Scarborough
Weston S M
Southend O S
Felixstowe
Herne Bay
Bexhill OS

Dunno whether you can get the DE online other than by subscription but the only other gem of wisdom is that, according to Halifax, the average seaside house sells for £5,298 more than an inland house in the same county.

I'm surprised that Whitby and further north aren't mentioned.

beingjdc

No, but if you don't need to be anywhere specific but you want nice country that's near the coast and can't spend too much, I recommend Lincolnshire - the area around Market Rasen and coastwards of that towards cleethorpes.

If you want somewhere hotter and have a certain amount of money, then you've still maybe got time to get into North Devon while it's cheaper (relatively) than the pure south coast. Also they say Herefordshire is the New Cotswolds, which I guess makes Wales the new West Wiltshire.

Personally, I'd quite like the West Highlands, but that's my Gavin Maxwell obsession.

hazzie123

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

Is that Middlesbrough or Easington -ish.

I like Saltburn but agree that it isn't really busy. Maybe that's why I like it. Saltburn has a good mix of facilties and good road/rail links. Probably a lot cheaper than Whitby too.



GG

It`s Boro-ish.