Anyone else moving out of London

Maxwell007

All my family members are in London mostly in the south east,
I also work in London, Midlands to London is costly & 2hours on a train is not for me, HS2 not going be ready for a few more years.


May I should give up on a family house and get a flat with no garden no parking on a high raise ex council block . .

Cakeguts

Maxwell007 wrote: »

All my family members are in London mostly in the south east,
I also work in London, Midlands to London is costly & 2hours on a train is not for me, HS2 not going be ready for a few more years.


May I should give up on a family house and get a flat with no garden no parking on a high raise ex council block . .

Lots of people have family members in different parts of the country or even abroad. The point about moving to a different part of the country is that a single salary goes further than in London and although you might have to take a drop in salary to do it you should be able to afford a better house and have more disposable income which would mean that you would still be able to visit family members.

Maxwell007

thanks cakeguts I hear your point.

Person_one

Maxwell007 wrote: »

thanks cakeguts I hear your point.

Yours is a good point too though, it shouldn't be the case that people with ordinary, reasonably well paid jobs have to leave the city they grew up in and move hundreds of miles from family, friends and roots in order to have any chance at being able to afford a modest house to raise a family in if they want to.

Its a sad state of affairs, it shouldn't be like this and I don't think anybody blames you for being p****d off about it, but this forum does tend towards practical advice and dealing with things as they are rather than getting into political discussion (mostly!)

Davesnave

Maxwell007 wrote: »

May I should give up on a family house and get a flat with no garden no parking on a high raise ex council block . .

What a dismal prospect!

There are family houses you could afford in my part of the country, where the local schools are excellent.

True, we have to make more of our own entertainment, but there are compensations, living where many other people visit when they have a choice, on holiday.

And you'd be amazed how many of the residents are formerly from London & the SE.

AdrianC

Person_one wrote: »

Yours is a good point too though, it shouldn't be the case that people with ordinary, reasonably well paid jobs have to leave the city they grew up in...

Is £30k "reasonably well paid"? National average full-time salary is £27,500, £34,600 in London.

missbiggles1

Maxwell007 wrote: »

Hmm The Deep dark Medway hmmm iv hurd Horrible story’s about living there. . . .

Places that are cheap are usually not the nicest.:D

Person_one

AdrianC wrote: »

Is £30k "reasonably well paid"? National average full-time salary is £27,500, £34,600 in London.

Yes, lots of people on less than 20K or NMW, or only in part time work would be over the moon to get anywhere near that wage.

Where I live in the NW (and in most of the country) you can have a very nice quality of life on 30K.

London and the SE are the anomalies.

AdrianC

Person_one wrote: »

Yes, lots of people on less than 20K or NMW, or only in part time work would be over the moon to get anywhere near that wage.

Below average for the region, and only just above average nationally is still not "reasonably well paid", though, even if those who are paid even less would be happy.

Where I live in the NW (and in most of the country) you can have a very nice quality of life on 30K.

London and the SE are the anomalies.

Umm, I hate to break this to you, but living in London is kinda what this whole thread is about...

always_sunny

Person_one wrote: »

Yes, lots of people on less than 20K or NMW, or only in part time work would be over the moon to get anywhere near that wage.

Where I live in the NW (and in most of the country) you can have a very nice quality of life on 30K.

London and the SE are the anomalies.

Really can you? Perhaps if you're older and already own a home you might but otherwise even in the middle of nowhere £30k isn't so much for a family; the OP is looking for a 3 bed house so I doubt it's for a single person unless they want to open a B&B!

If you think London and the SE are anomalies you'd be surprised that in most of Europe is the same then. Makes sound NW like a British Romania! :rotfl: