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Please help me find somewhere affordable to retire.
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Some of the posters have suggested affordable properties but in areas of high deprivation.
Jaywick is the most deprived area in the country, although by the sea. I would be careful moving to areas such as this as you may not have all the services you need when being "pensioned off".
It is possible to get affordable properties in areas of lower deprivation.
I will be checking all future suggestions.0 -
You are spot on Towser.
That is the thing - ie to find a property that can be "lifted-up" to normal standard in a cheaper part of the country.
Many cheaper properties aren't just cheaper because of factors to do with them personally - but are that way because there is something either "not quite right" or "distinctly wrong" with the area as a whole that they are in.
OP does have time on their side by the look of it - ie whilst many of us from nicer parts of the country "spread out" towards the "not quite right" areas and "bring them up" in the process - ie because we are working hard on getting our own personal property right and then notice that half the immediate neighbourhood are also working on getting their properties up to scratch too:rotfl:. Right now - I'm personally a little bit astonished (and distinctly pleased) at noticing just how much work is being done on quite a high percentage of neighbouring properties in my "not quite right" area I've recently moved to.
Definitely in a "Builders 'R Us" area now and it certainly didn't look as if it was even the couple of years ago I personally moved to it...:)0 -
Somebody clever on here must be able to merge house prices with areas of deprivation data to find out the optimum place to live within a particular price range.
I think it can be done with the National Statistics spreadsheet and house price information but I don't feel like inputting all the data for the 32,000 odd LOas! There must be this information out there somewhere. I have tried to google it with no success because I don't know what a spreadsheet or map like this would be called?0 -
OP, depending on what your medical conditions are, have you considered researching where the 'centres of excellence' or regional specialist hospitals are that would be best able to manage your health issues, and then looking at areas local to those hospitals? Could be a way to narrow the search down from 'anywhere'!0
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Northern Ireland
Relatively cheap property prices, most of NI is within an hour of Belfast (The furthest parts about 1 1/2 hours) for medical care etc, and there is a number of regional hospitals and care centres etc.
Many lovely coastal villages and towns.
http://www.propertynews.com/Property/Downpatrick/14962101496000784/37-The-Ward/349690973/Page5
A semi detached bungalow in a coastal fishing village, but near a good sized town (Downpatrick)
http://www.propertynews.com/Property/Ballycastle/PMS670135/94-Market-Street/349690973/Page5
Needs a bit of modernization, but in a popular seaside town
Looking at the street view map at the graffiti on the bungalow walls and some dodgy looking characters I would be very wary of moving there :eek:0 -
Edinburgh has risen rapidly through the ranks of 138 UK areas to top a detailed quality of life league, research showed today.
With many Scottish areas reporting dramatic increases in living standards, the capital outdid every UK region, as locals reported low crime rates, affordable living costs, high salaries and fast broadband.
Edinburgh rose 97 places since uSwitch's last Quality of Life Index , pushing 2013's winner Solihull into second place. The south of Scotland scored especially well, with Lanarkshire, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire also making the top 10 best places.
Bradford and Hull fared less well, coming last and second-to-last respectively, as residents marked them down for low disposable income, low employment, high rent and crowded schools.
The uSwitch.com study assessed 138 areas for 26 different factors including salaries, disposable household income and the cost of essential goods, such as fuel, food and energy bills, as well as lifestyle factors such as working hours, life expectancy and hours of sunshine.
Edinburgh has the lowest reported crime rate in the UK, cheap petrol and energy bills, high average salaries of £29,588 and disposable household income of £20,083, as well as fast average broadband download speeds of 30Mbs.
According to the report, people in Bradford have amongst the lowest gross disposable household incomes of £13,654 a year, yet pay one of the highest average weekly rents of £92.60.
The employment rate is low at 65 per cent and there is also a lower than average life expectancy at 77 years and seven months for men and 81 years and four months for women.
To top it all, the area suffers from crowded primary schools and just 44 per cent of pupils achieved five GCSEs at A-C grades.
Hertfordshire and Berkshire were the only top 10 areas in the South East of England, at 3 and 6 respectively.0 -
Nice copy & paste from today's This Is Money, Towser.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3283019/Best-places-live-UK-Edinburgh-soars-138-areas-quality-life-league.html
There are many similar rankings. My area won Best Place to Bring Up a Family two years or so back. Why it isn't now, I can't say. School results have improved or been sustained, so it isn't that.
Devon may have allegedly taken a hammering since 2013, (really?) but as a place to retire it was doing well just a few months ago....
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/30/south-west-of-england-tops-list-of-best-places-to-retire
It seems that numbers may be crunched to produce very different results, depending on who's choosing which ones to crunch in the first place.0 -
yes,
I am interested using using house prices and the National Statistics office deprivation figures as variants.
As I am sure Uswitch have combined similar data.
We are living in a world of "big data statistics" analysis to finding the answers for all sorts of things, not just optimum place to live.
There must be someone a "statistics whizz" who could produce such information for the OP.0 -
Have a look at West Cumbrian towns like Workington, Whitehaven, Maryport where just £75k buys you a property like this....
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35587656.htmlIts amazing how these banks can't even do simple calculations correctly..............0 -
Have a look at West Cumbrian towns like Workington, Whitehaven, Maryport where just £75k buys you a property like this....
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35587656.html
That one looks reasonable - and worth a visual lookaround the area to have a look at what that's like.0
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