Where's Cheap Place to Live in UK?

[gaius]

Greetings to all!

Can anyone give any suggestion and advices to where in United Kingdom are cheap to live? in form of House Morgages or Rent, Transportation accessible to Central London? Cheap Foods, Clothings and Billings expenses? and great place to start a new family life?

[vbkelly]

[QUOTE=gaius;78131]Greetings to all!

Can anyone give any suggestion and advices to where in United Kingdom are cheap to live? in form of House Morgages or Rent, Transportation accessible to Central London? Cheap Foods, Clothings and Billings expenses? and great place to start a new family life?[/QUOTE
no place in the UK is cheap

[KeithD]

Where's Cheap Place to Live in UK?


:icon_lol: :rolleyes:

[Piamed]

Greetings to all!

Can anyone give any suggestion and advices to where in United Kingdom are cheap to live? in form of House Morgages or Rent, Transportation accessible to Central London? Cheap Foods, Clothings and Billings expenses? and great place to start a new family life?

Hi ther. Sorry but those words are not synonomous with cheap, especially when further applied to Central London. The East Side of London is still generally cheaper than most but that is changing with the 2012 Olympic games related development going on there.

Do you require daily access to Central London or occasonal?

[gaius]

Cheap! I mean, when I'm live in Central London and rent a 2bedroom flat house, this will cost me 1000 to 1200 pounds/month, but when I go Surrey and rent the same flat model house, this will only cost me 600+ to 800+ pounds. Now, I believe Surrey is little bit cheaper place to live than in Central London. Is there any more place as such cheaper as Surrey?, since I don't prefer this place to start a family life.

[winner]

the more north you go the cheaper it gets but you get the better weather down south

[PeterB]

Whereabouts, in Central London, do you need to have access to, and how long are you prepared to travel for?

It could be worth looking out in the Reading direction, and even beyond - to Newbury, etc. There is a reasonable rail service in to Paddington station.

[Piamed]

I think Surrey and Berkshire are both pretty nice. Both can be pricey, depending on where of course.

[Mrs Daddy]

when talking about london nothing can beat the expensive living there:D

[nigel]

I'm in surrey and I reckon you would do well to start here...:Erm: Why do you need access to London? You or your hubby have got work there right? :Erm:

[andypaul]

When you say you dont like Surrey which part are you living in?

Remeber the further away from London you live the more it will cost to commute in and longer in time.

I see a lot of people looking just a little depressed on the train when i get off and they have another hour on the train or so.

[gaius]

Well, I'm not familiar yet with the places up north side since my Wife is presently working and living in Central London, and I'm still here in the Philippines. I'll be joining with her this coming last quarter of the this year. She knew much of the better places down south yet doesn't have any idea of the living cost there. I'm browsing Google Earth online up in north and east side of UK checking the map route of trains. We plan to start a new life away from Central London.

[KeithD]

House prices are rapidly dropping now :xxgrinning--00xx3: So you can pick up a cupboard in Central London for just under £100,000

[PeterB]

House prices are rapidly dropping now :xxgrinning--00xx3:
Yep. I think I did well to sell last autumn! :)

[tomm]

House prices are rapidly dropping now :xxgrinning--00xx3: So you can pick up a cupboard in Central London for just under £100,000

I've heard you can buy a whole street in Hull for that... might be worth a look :rolleyes:

[cruisingkerry]

I live in County Durham and its pretty cheap to buy or rent up here, if you're looking to move away from the south.

I bought my 2 up 2 down terraced house about 2 and a half years ago for 64k in a little mining village, really friendly folks up North too :)

What kind of work do you and your wife do? If you're in the Phils does that mean you are Filipino and your wife is a Brit??

[andypaul]

House prices are rapidly dropping now :xxgrinning--00xx3: So you can pick up a cupboard in Central London for just under £100,000

Please dont say your thinking of moving to London:omg:

[walesrob]

Please dont say your thinking of moving to London:omg:

Ha! New Crime wave hits London. :rolleyes:

[andypaul]

Well, I'm not familiar yet with the places up north side since my Wife is presently working and living in Central London, and I'm still here in the Philippines. I'll be joining with her this coming last quarter of the this year. She knew much of the better places down south yet doesn't have any idea of the living cost there. I'm browsing Google Earth online up in north and east side of UK checking the map route of trains. We plan to start a new life away from Central London.

Far better ways of checking trains routes in and out of London.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

http://www.transportdirect.info/web2/Default.aspx?repeatingloop=Y

This for london and surrouding area.

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en

I would suggest for checking out areas

http://www.upmystreet.com/

Hopeful they give you a little more info.

Feel free to post questions on here im sure other posters as well as me will help you give you a Brits eye view

[nigel]

You might find this interesting...

We should probably take this with a pinch of salt but here are Britains worst top ten towns to live in according to the Sunday Telelgraph:

10 Hackney (Thought to be dangerous and dirty)
9 Basingstoke (Thought to be a large grotty town that was designed to take Londons overspill)
8 Bexhill On Sea (Described as being like an elephants graveyard, populated by people who are waiting to die, and smelling of ammmonia!)
7 ST Andrews (Thought to be full of irritating English toffee nosed types!)
6 Liverpool (Thought to be full of men wearing tracksuits, wearing silly moustache's and thieving) - They also said that Liverpool was once one of the richest cities in the world!!:yikes: What went wrong?:Erm:
5 Winchester (A beautiful spot with posh schools but also popular with lager louts leaving broken beer bottles everywhere!!)
4 Hythe (Thought to be plain boring, apart from the fact the Romans once invaded there.)
3 Morecambe (Once popular in the 1930's, it was a bit like Blackpool, but has since gone downhill and become unpopular)
2 Cumbernauld (It's said that the town of Cumbernauld was so badly built...it's basically a platform on stilts, sitting over a network of tunnels and old bunkers...students learning about town building are being shown Cumbernauld as an example of how it should NOT be done!:yikes:)
1 Hull (Thought to have very high unemployment there, many of their industries have collapsed, and it's thought there's a large number drug users/heroin addicts there)

[andypaul]

You might find this interesting...

We should probably take this with a pinch of salt but here are Britains worst top ten towns to live in according to the Sunday Telelgraph:

10 Hackney (Thought to be dangerous and dirty)
9 Basingstoke (Thought to be a large grotty town that was designed to take Londons overspill)
8 Bexhill On Sea (Described as being like an elephants graveyard, populated by people who are waiting to die, and smelling of ammmonia!)
7 ST Andrews (Thought to be full of irritating English toffee nosed types!)
6 Liverpool (Thought to be full of men wearing tracksuits, wearing silly moustache's and thieving) - They also said that Liverpool was once one of the richest cities in the world!!:yikes: What went wrong?:Erm:
5 Winchester (A beautiful spot with posh schools but also popular with lager louts leaving broken beer bottles everywhere!!)
4 Hythe (Thought to be plain boring, apart from the fact the Romans once invaded there.)
3 Morecambe (Once popular in the 1930's, it was a bit like Blackpool, but has since gone downhill and become unpopular)
2 Cumbernauld (It's said that the town of Cumbernauld was so badly built...it's basically a platform on stilts, sitting over a network of tunnels and old bunkers...students learning about town building are being shown Cumbernauld as an example of how it should NOT be done!:yikes:)
1 Hull (Thought to have very high unemployment there, many of their industries have collapsed, and it's thought there's a large number drug users/heroin addicts there)

You forgot Hook:D only area worse around there is the town south of it with a Zoo:D

[nigel]

You forgot Hook:D only area worse around there is the town south of it with a Zoo:D Hehehehehe:icon_lol::icon_lol: I guess Chessington is kind of dull...really not much here apart from some half empty bars and that zoo! :icon_lol::icon_lol:

[andypaul]

Hehehehehe:icon_lol::icon_lol: I guess Chessington is kind of dull...really not much here apart from some half empty bars and that zoo! :icon_lol::icon_lol:

Its a nice place compared to many places in the World:xxgrinning--00xx3:

Just with me being from a far greater place nearby as a youth.

I can remeber the night bus having a few stops taken off it and stopping in tolworth instead of going though hook and chessington as more crime was commited on those few stops than the rest of the route where the bus went though half of london:omg:

[tomm]

I've heard you can buy a whole street in Hull for that... might be worth a look :rolleyes:



1 Hull (Thought to have very high unemployment there, many of their industries have collapsed, and it's thought there's a large number drug users/heroin addicts there)

it was just a guess :rolleyes:

[Ana_may365]

my opinion is better to leave in co.durham.espccly in ferryhill area.cheap houses and nice people also.

[jimeve]

Yes but you need an interpreter :Cuckoo:

[gaius]

I live in County Durham and its pretty cheap to buy or rent up here, if you're looking to move away from the south.

I bought my 2 up 2 down terraced house about 2 and a half years ago for 64k in a little mining village, really friendly folks up North too :)

What kind of work do you and your wife do? If you're in the Phils does that mean you are Filipino and your wife is a Brit??

Yes, I'm a Filipino and my Wife is a Filipina nurse working in one of hospital in Central London, Im about to join with her this last quarter of this year. Is food are cheap too in Durham?

[gaius]

Yes but you need an interpreter :Cuckoo:


and why is that? curious :Erm::Erm:

[keithAngel]

and why is that? curious :Erm::Erm:

Because of this

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BritishAccents

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/search/advanced.cfm?collection=English%20Accents%20and%20Dialects&step=val_form

:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[andypaul]

hers a pinoy nurse site from that area of the Uk (well sort of)

http://pnn.homestead.com/index.html

[cruisingkerry]

I'm not sure if food here is cheaper than down south, but there are lots of 'low cost food stores' like Aldi, Lidl, Netto (I was really surprised with netto! haven't been there for years but they have lots of brand name food for far cheaper prices than the major supermarkets), petrol is cheaper here I believe we're paying 112.9/l minumum.

Houses are really resonable, you can get a 2 bed house for about 70k in most villages and towns.

The people are really friendly, I moved here from South Shields which is about 50 miles away ( a long way for some of the people in these small mining villages!) and the people are very friendly in the small village that I live in. Very accepting of people from outside the area, there is a very small Filipino community (about 4 people) in the actual village and the people that I know are very accepting of them. I only say that because in some of these small ex mining villages you might expect to find some bigotry, not just to people from overseas but 'outsiders'. A lot of the people were born and bred in the village.

We have excellent transport links via the A19 and A1(M), and if you wanted to get the train to London its direct from Durham station.

Plenty of hospitals around here, walk in centres popping up all over the place and these new 'super' health centres for employment for your wife, salaries for nurses are less up here because we don't get the London enhancement. But still plenty of work and agencies for her to look through.

Hope this is helpful

K xx

[gaius]

I'm not sure if food here is cheaper than down south, but there are lots of 'low cost food stores' like Aldi, Lidl, Netto (I was really surprised with netto! haven't been there for years but they have lots of brand name food for far cheaper prices than the major supermarkets), petrol is cheaper here I believe we're paying 112.9/l minumum.

Houses are really resonable, you can get a 2 bed house for about 70k in most villages and towns.

The people are really friendly, I moved here from South Shields which is about 50 miles away ( a long way for some of the people in these small mining villages!) and the people are very friendly in the small village that I live in. Very accepting of people from outside the area, there is a very small Filipino community (about 4 people) in the actual village and the people that I know are very accepting of them. I only say that because in some of these small ex mining villages you might expect to find some bigotry, not just to people from overseas but 'outsiders'. A lot of the people were born and bred in the village.

We have excellent transport links via the A19 and A1(M), and if you wanted to get the train to London its direct from Durham station.

Plenty of hospitals around here, walk in centres popping up all over the place and these new 'super' health centres for employment for your wife, salaries for nurses are less up here because we don't get the London enhancement. But still plenty of work and agencies for her to look through.

Hope this is helpful

K xx

This is pretty helpful enough information for me. I would consider this place much likely great place to live when it comes to accessibility and cheap place to live in. Since my wife is a nurse and we're considering of moving outside Central London, living in a country side is not a problem for us.

But i'll check other places more. thank you so much! really appreciated.

[Le'em]

[QUOTE=gaius;78131]Greetings to all!

Can anyone give any suggestion and advices to where in United Kingdom are cheap to live? in form of House Morgages or Rent, Transportation accessible to Central London? Cheap Foods, Clothings and Billings expenses? and great place to start a new family life?[/QUOTE
no place in the UK is cheap

hi, yes your right, no place here in UK that is cheap....its very imposible to have..esp in business area in central london, im here in london and OMG, all is expensive....thats why my partner settle down here and buy his house 8n years ago and he let someone rent it 2 years before i arrived and lived in his other flat east london while working, ive heard in the news, less percent of the family here in london owned their own houses.....almost all is renting and almost all ages under 30's just renting coz its very expensive but dont worry because its very accesible here, some will just walk to work...

hope it asnwers, but well im sure you guys can do it esp you have nice job...cheers

[KeithD]

Britain is one of the places in Europe with the highest house ownership, most folk frown on renting for some reason. They prefer to buy a house for £500,000 spend 25 years in debt, and pay the bank any extra £500,000 as a thank you!! :Erm:

[Le'em]

Britain is one of the places in Europe with the highest house ownership, most folk frown on renting for some reason. They prefer to buy a house for £500,000 spend 25 years in debt, and pay the bank an extra £500,000 as a thank you!! :Erm:

absolutely right Boss Win2win:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[kermit123]

Cheap! I mean, when I'm live in Central London and rent a 2bedroom flat house, this will cost me 1000 to 1200 pounds/month, but when I go Surrey and rent the same flat model house, this will only cost me 600+ to 800+ pounds. Now, I believe Surrey is little bit cheaper place to live than in Central London. Is there any more place as such cheaper as Surrey?, since I don't prefer this place to start a family life.hi i have been looking at birmingham a nice 1 bedroomed flat 325 month in a fair area ok not london but nice place to live as well :)

[Mrs.JMajor]

:yikes: my first time encountered this thread,maybe I am absent when this thread is on going :icon_lol:

Try strachur in scotland,i heard its cheap :Erm: I mean cheap to live:cwm24:

[jimeve]

Moss side, Mancs land, they will pay YOU to live there. :icon_lol:

buy a bullet proof vest.:omg:

[nigel]

I still recomend SURREY!:D It must be good 'cause I live there..:icon_lol:

[simplelife]

:yikes: my first time encountered this thread,maybe I am absent when this thread is on going :icon_lol:

Try strachur in scotland,i heard its cheap :Erm: I mean cheap to live:cwm24:

I was curious about that place and I found out using the rac route planner that it takes 10 hours and 40 minutes drive from London City to that place :yikes: no wonder why it is cheaper place. :icon_lol:

Well, for those people who wants quiet and away from the crowd that would be ideal. :icon_lol:

[Mrs.JMajor]

:Erm: I might be wrong to say its cheap though ,because those people living in an island,they say too expensive to live in a place like that,not much business to deal with :doh


:doh I am always like business minded here

[fred]

We had a look at a really nice victorian 4 story house with all original ceiling roses coving and a huge iron cooking range that would of been worth well over a million in London.. The road and paths were really wide and at some time in the past it must have been quite a posh area.. They wanted 12 grand for it.
It was in Toxteth so we gave it a miss.
I think it was the alcoholic crack and glue sniffers outside the halal store that put her off.
I suppose it was enough that she already lives with one?

[gracia143]

Brixton? Cockfoster??? Seriously, everywhere in London it's expensive. And as a Filipino it might take a bit of time for you to get used to how much money you need to spend even for 'prime commodities'.

[Toyang]

:Try strachur in scotland,i heard its cheap :Erm: I mean cheap to live:cwm24:

I can`t even find it on the map, I guess youre right it is cheap place to live.:icon_lol:

[Toyang]

I still recomend SURREY!:D It must be good 'cause I live there..:icon_lol:


I wont think to live in Surrey because you live there. :icon_lol::icon_lol::xxgrinning--00xx3:

[gaius]

Hi to all!

It's been months since my last visit here. Now I'm here in London, I'm still looking and looking.. though We've been to some places and county's but still we don't know where exactly the best place to live outside London.

[beaubrummie]

My wife recently met a new filipino couple who have moved to birnigham to get onthe housing ladder the husband commutes to London where he works as a chef they tell us it's cheaper

[calvin72]

Hello , i grew up in Brighton , lived in London for many years but now live in Sheffield , South Yorkshire. Their is a huge difference between the cost of living in the South East and the more northern towns and cities , as others have said the cheaper places in the London area are often not very desirable although i enjoyed living all over London it is not everybodies choice!

[Plonker]

Everywhere down south is exspensive to live. I use to rent a 3 bed house in Canarywharf for a ridiculos amount of wonga until I got made redundant.

I now live in the centre of Leeds in one of those city apartments over looking the city with a balcony and parking, which costs a lot,lot less than what you would pay in London for the equivalent spec. In leeds there is a big hospital as well as a training student hospital which employ thousands of nurses and doctors, so I would imagine there would be jobs for you here, but best check before taking the plunge.

Interms of food we have the usual big superstores like asda, sainsburys, tesco, morrison, m&s, co-op. We have cheapo ones too like aldi and netto. Then there are specialist stores like the chinese supermarkets and various middle eastern stores. There is a big student population here because of the university and there is a real mix of people just like London, so quite often there are discount nights out at various different places. Plus we have leeds festival and other big events.

Houses here start from around 50k onwards for a mid terrace house, ok, ok so it might not be in the best of areas but you gotta start somewhere right. For a fairly decent house there are hundreds of houses for sale that are around the 110k that would get you a 3 bed semi with driveway and garden. In terms of renting, you can rent a house for as little as 400 pounds here or you could rent a 1 bed flat for around 350 pounds. Having a large student population helps keep accomadation prices low.

Leeds also has an airport which is handy. Manchester is an hours drive away. And you can get a fast train down to London in 2-3 hours.

Best of all Jimmy Savile lives here WAHEY!

[flomike]

we live in North Yorkshire still expensive:NoNo: well, that's what they said this is UK its not cheap living here and its true. My Brit work mate said to me we live in a nowhere place but still bloody expensive:NoNo:

I heard its cheap to live in HULL AND MIDDLESBROUGH:Erm:

[somebody]

From my limited experince isn't it more expensive living in quieter areas as many shops have less competion and therefore charge what they like? While in many cities residential areas due to competion prices in shops are far lower. Plus many of us londoners rarely need a car or even public transport as many things a short walk away, saving us loads.

[fred]

we live in North Yorkshire still expensive:NoNo: well, that's what they said this is UK its not cheap living here and its true. My Brit work mate said to me we live in a nowhere place but still bloody expensive:NoNo:


Ive been tracking house prices in the UK and notice they are becoming cheaper almost every day..
When the bubble really pops the UK will seem like any other 3rd world country..A bit like it was in the 70`s..(or anytime since in Liverpool)

[somebody]

Ive been tracking house prices in the UK and notice they are becoming cheaper almost every day..
When the bubble really pops the UK will seem like any other 3rd world country..A bit like it was in the 70`s..(or anytime since in Liverpool)

A mate picked up a 10 year old or so old 5 bedroom all with en suite properly luxury gaff. With indoor swiming pool huge garden designer kitchen blah blah. for just over 200k was reckoned to be over 1.2 mill two years back to the south sea bubblists:D Needed some work but that was pennies for what he was getting.

[Tawi2]

Surprised no ones mentioned Milton Keynes,good rail and road links into London,and houses that are very reasonable,I can think of worse places to live :Erm:

[joebloggs]

I can think of worse places to live :Erm:

yes Liverpool :NoNo:

:xxparty-smiley-004:

[irobot]

Irobot..." Sunny...Different From The Rest..."

Hi Peep`s... I think it all depends on where your job is...,Which is the advantage of renting.You can up root and move to where ever you get another job as when you own a house it is that much harder... Where as for me I am well rooted here in the West Country (135 miles from Heathrow) and happy with a non rented front door of my own.

Some Philippine people I know about four of them share / rent a house together which keeps things cheaper but it all depends if you like to share.... Phil..