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Cheapest place to live

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  • autismmum
    autismmum Posts: 444 Forumite
    dream house : http://www.fish4.co.uk/iad/homes/advert?adId=16341423&src=homecouk
    140k and no water rates due to spring..... good life here i come
    totally debt free:j and mortgage free too 2010
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    autismmum wrote: »
    dream house : http://www.fish4.co.uk/iad/homes/advert?adId=16341423&src=homecouk
    140k and no water rates due to spring..... good life here i come
    Lovely house...am going to hijack this thread with dream houses too.

    The town where I was born (but became a suburbanite Londoner from age 8 and lost accent and ability to chat in Welsh) http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-20085392.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy

    Was feeling v low last night and just did a little search....just to see what I will never ever own......
  • chappers
    chappers Posts: 2,988 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Were these the areas where houses were going for a couple of grand a few years back?

    I toyed with the idea of buying one and basically selling it for scrap to see if it would pay.

    somewhere in blackburn I think , you could by a row of 10 houses for £10K
  • Pez2
    Pez2 Posts: 429 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    All these places that have dirt cheap property in Yorkshire/North East are former mining villages that are basically economically dead now. The only people who stay their are those who don't have the skills or the wherewithal to get out. Levels of unemployment and crime are huge. Even if you paid me £30k I wouldn't live in many of them.
  • Many jobs these days only require a broadband connection. Location doesn't matter. If millions become jobless in the South due to a recession will we see the same opinions being expressed by Southerners.

    Margaret Thatcher destroyed the miners out of spite. Evil !!!!!. Maybe Gordie has done the same to the bankers.

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • knightstyle
    knightstyle Posts: 7,292 Forumite
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    We moved to the Lincs/Nots border area from the South coast two years ago. We bought a new 4bed house, with great views, garage, central heating etc. for £142K. No way would we go back as this area is having so much money being invested on improvements and the people are great as well! A house the same as ours is on the market for £147K now.
  • dwsjarcmcd
    dwsjarcmcd Posts: 1,857 Forumite
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    GavP wrote: »
    All these places that have dirt cheap property in Yorkshire/North East are former mining villages that are basically economically dead now. The only people who stay their are those who don't have the skills or the wherewithal to get out. Levels of unemployment and crime are huge. Even if you paid me £30k I wouldn't live in many of them.

    I agree, I have been to South Elmsall once, that was more than enough! If you bought something there it would fall into the mineshaft anyway, which is probably the right place for it!
  • halia
    halia Posts: 450 Forumite
    Many jobs these days only require a broadband connection. Location doesn't matter. If millions become jobless in the South due to a recession will we see the same opinions being expressed by Southerners.

    Margaret Thatcher destroyed the miners out of spite. Evil !!!!!. Maybe Gordie has done the same to the bankers.

    GG

    location does matter, okay you can work from anywhere with a broadband connection but what about shops, services, schools, a playground thats actually SAFE to take your kids to, streets that aren't littered with broken glass and vomit?

    There's some lovely spots in the north, but there's also some absolute hellholes just like there is in any town/county, and yes some may get money spent on them and become bearable/nice places to live but thats always a gamble. And as alot of european and SRB funding has now ended you've pretty much missed the big 'regeneration' decade.

    (do agree with you re miners and MT)
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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Margaret Thatcher destroyed the miners out of spite.

    My recollection was that it was because she didn't want the Govt to subsidise loss making industries any longer and the coal mines were taking huge amounts of Govt money to prop them up. She put McGregor in to do the same thing to the mining industry he had to the steel industry - close down the loss making areas and put the profitable ones into a company that could be sold.

    Scargill wasn't exactly the most wonderful of people. After the Tories won the 1987 election he stood on the platform at the TUC and called for a general strike to overturn the election; revolution in effect. And he was an apologist for Stalin, a particularly nasty man who killed millions of his own people and for my money was the worst of the C20th European dictators.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »

    Scargill wasn't exactly the most wonderful of people. After the Tories won the 1987 election he stood on the platform at the TUC and called for a general strike to overturn the election; revolution in effect. And he was an apologist for Stalin, a particularly nasty man who killed millions of his own people and for my money was the worst of the C20th European dictators.
    ....and didn't he end up with a swishy house, £££ in the bank, sitting comfortably? Classic real life 'Animal Farm' stuff.
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