Slight negative equity - jump ship or sit tight?

neverdespairgirl

tryinhardtosavethepennies wrote: »

(and this house is very unsuitable for bringing up a child, let alone childREN - 2 bed, 2nd bed very small, very steep windy stairs (1830-built cottage), downstairs bathroom, tiny garden, on a busy road so baby might be disturbed during sleep).

Don't panic about all that yet. Children don't need their own room straight away (in fact, it helps protect against cot death if a baby sleep with his parents). Also babies and young children are less disturbed by noise when asleep than older children or adults. They are disturbed by internal things (hunger, thirst, wet nappy) rather than external things.

mlz1413

lostinrates wrote: »

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Something that really, really would do has come up in Kent but I'm panicking. Bth my parents are older, and my mother particularly has health problems. The idea of driving from rural kent to rural SW in an emergency with a potential start up business and all my animals, and hopefull a kid, is not pleasing or perhaps wise. We would really be best staying west of London, but I don't think we'll afford it.

Surely short of living with your parents any emergency commute is going to be trumatic as they live in rural SW?

Good luck with finding a place and hope you get to hold hands loads more :T

LillyJ

pinkshoes wrote: »

That's fair enough.

My two best female mates at uni, one was a complete extrovert, hated her own company, and even preferred sitting on the floor in my room to study rather than sit at her own desk on her own!! The only time she was on her own was when she was asleep or peeing! The other was rather introverted, was happy having just a couple of friends, loved her own company and being on her own. I was somewhere in the middle, probably a bit more on the extroverted side, but between the 3 of us it's always worked very well, and 9 years on we're still best friends.

I can't wait to own a huge home one day, with lots of roaming space!!

Are you sure I wasn't your housemate number 1 ? I used to be that person, sitting on my housemate's floor to revise!
I still don't like being on my own, although I am a bit better now I have a dog. I am rarely alone anyway as we have friends popping in and out all the time (I still live in the area where I was a student and so do lots of friends), and I live with my partner, but he works shifts so there are times when I am on my own. That is when I appreciate having the dog around! But 9 times out of 10 I go to a friends house or they come here if I have an evening alone. I don't live near to my parents but I think if I did I would drive them mad, I think I would be round there every 10 mins.
I also have to have a phone with free landline calls cos I use it a ridiculous amount to speak to family and friends who aren't nearby. (My best friend is 100 miles away and currently heavily pregnant, so many hours are spent chatting about rubbish as she is bored on mat leave.).

I also play alot of sport cos I love it and love the company!

On the subject of getting rid of junk, when we move, (in 2 and a bit weeks eeeek!) I am only taking the absolute essentials and all the rubbish is going. I can't wait. Charity shops in Birmingham are going to be overflowing with my clothes and niknaks.

lostinrates

mlz1413 wrote: »

Surely short of living with your parents any emergency commute is going to be trumatic as they live in rural SW?

Good luck with finding a place and hope you get to hold hands loads more :T

I can be at my parents from Knightsbridge in under two hours, no traffic, but when we lived in NW3 it would take 3 with either the n. circular, the trek through town or the long option of M4 to the 5 then round to the A303.

In fact, some friday night weekend escapes took over five hours from NW3. We started having supper in Londn or going out THEN starting out after 10pm, which brought it back down again to something more reasonable, but leaving after work would result in these LONG commute times, especially out of winter. Train was great when I culd leave my car out of London, but never got to sit down and was fearsomely expensive (much cheaper to pay for parking permet etc in London and drive out.)

I have a friend in Canterbury and from SW to there is four-five hours. I don't speed (anymore) but on long journeys I drive up to the speed limit.

Two-three hours in an emergency is much easier than five and circumnavigating London/M25. That big old city in the middle can add 45 minutes in the middle of the night or HOURS at rush hour!:rolleyes: