Moving home

[Slip]

I live in a one bedroom flat close to Heathrow airport, was worth £88,000 when I purchased it around 2002 as a single man. Now married with a thirteen month old baby I have outgrown the place. I had it valued today, now worth £200,000-£210,000
To buy a two bedroom place around here is not within my price range unless I win big on the lottery... So we have been looking further out, Leicestershire to be precise as we have friends there, and Harlene likes it when we have visited.... That and I can buy a 3 bedroom house and have change left has made our minds up... So hopefully in the coming months I shall be leaving London and my job I've been in for 11 years and make a fresh start.... Hopefully finding a job won't be too hard!

[SimonH]

All the best, house prices in this area are

[Michael Parnham]

Yorkshire Slip, £116,000 brand new semi three bedroom

[stevewool]

Good luck Slip, just down the road from us, hope you find work up here and at a wage that is good too

[Trefor]

Good choice. We live in S Leicestershire and moved here from Buckinghamshire, twice the house for the same money. Good access to the M1 and I can be physically sitting on a plane at Birmingham airport within an hour of leaving the house. I don't miss LHR!

[grahamw48]

I would never move from Yorkshire.

Beautiful peaceful place. No traffic jams . Affordable property. Good weather, as on the 'dry' side of the Pennines. Same or better services as London (where I have worked). Same salary = more pocket money, better lifestyle.

[Slip]

Good choice. We live in S Leicestershire and moved here from Buckinghamshire, twice the house for the same money. Good access to the M1 and I can be physically sitting on a plane at Birmingham airport within an hour of leaving the house. I don't miss LHR!

That is part of the reason that the M1 can have me back in London in 2 hours in an emergency.
We are looking in areas around syston, Sileby and Melton mowbray. Helps my friends wife knows the area well and is giving us the thumbs up or down on the areas we are seeing houses we like

[Michael Parnham]

I would never move from Yorkshire.

Beautiful peaceful place. No traffic jams . Affordable property. Good weather, as on the 'dry' side of the Pennines. Same or better services as London (where I have worked). Same salary = more pocket money, better lifestyle.

Here here

[SimonH]

Here here

Where where

[Longweekend]

Where where

There there...

[grahamw48]

Oh, and I live 3 miles from the A1, and 4-5 from the M62 and M1.

I also have stations on the main rail lines to London and to Manchester within walking distance of my house.

[Slip]

Oh, and I live 3 miles from the A1, and 4-5 from the M62 and M1.

I also have stations on the main rail lines to London and to Manchester within walking distance of my house.

Yeah but you all speak funny in Yorkshire

[grahamw48]

Yeah but you all speak funny in Yorkshire

Ayup... we'd soon have thee talking reet mate .

[Slip]

Ayup... we'd soon have thee talking reet mate .

[lordna]

... and then you have yorkshire airlines too!

[Michael Parnham]

Sheffield/Doncaster (ex Finningly) Airport will become international in the near future, ideal for south and east Yorkshire

[grahamw48]

... and Southern North Yorkshire.

[Michael Parnham]

... and Southern North Yorkshire.

Well, ideal Graham only a short hop for you and I both. Some months ago a representative from the airport did say that it wouldn't be too long before becoming International as the original main runway is approx. a mile long

[gm47]

Hey Slip you must live near me, I live in Uxbridge, the new studio flats here are selling at £225,000. It's getting ridiculous I was trying to move across the road from where I live to a 1 bed flat....... the prices were then sent..... £315,000 !! looks like i'm moving up north or Manila !!

[Slip]

Hey Slip you must live near me, I live in Uxbridge, the new studio flats here are selling at £225,000. It's getting ridiculous I was trying to move across the road from where I live to a 1 bed flat....... the prices were then sent..... £315,000 !! looks like i'm moving up north or Manila !!

They built new flats down the road from me, affordable homes they marketed them as. We enquired about the two bedroom one.... £ 360,000 + £5000 per year for a parking space plus a monthly service charge!

[grahamw48]

The property market was/is great for those making money out of it.

Ask the people comfortably retired in Spain or Portugal... on their lucky windfalls, or the estate agents who retired at 40.

It's the present generation of youngsters who've had the carpet pulled from under them by the greedy and selfish people who set the housing crisis ball rolling.

[Trefor]

Melton etc. is a bit far out For me. Look at Lutterworth and Blaby. Nice small towns with good access. Waitrose stores in each too �� I drive to Rugby station for London trains - 48 mins non stop to Euston.

Market Harborugh is nice, but more expensive.

[Terpe]

I live in a one bedroom flat close to Heathrow airport, was worth £88,000 when I purchased it around 2002 as a single man. Now married with a thirteen month old baby I have outgrown the place. I had it valued today, now worth £200,000-£210,000
To buy a two bedroom place around here is not within my price range unless I win big on the lottery... So we have been looking further out, Leicestershire to be precise as we have friends there, and Harlene likes it when we have visited.... That and I can buy a 3 bedroom house and have change left has made our minds up... So hopefully in the coming months I shall be leaving London and my job I've been in for 11 years and make a fresh start.... Hopefully finding a job won't be too hard!

Good luck with the move Slip

Leicestershire has some very nice towns and villages

[malchard888]

Ayup... we'd soon have thee talking reet mate .

I understand Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has Yorkshire heritage, E BA GUM

[Doc Alan]

Good luck and best wishes for your plans to move and find a new job .

[Slip]

Applied to be a postman! Not what I want, but need a job to go to when I move there.
Applied online and they email you these tests you take online... pass them and they invite you for an interview I believe.... so see if they contact me now.

[stevewool]

Its a start , and i am a great believer that if you have a job its easy to find another one while working

[Longweekend]

Postman can't be too bad, they seem to work mornings only and apparently have a decent pension....

[Michael Parnham]

Postie is a very good job, go for it Slip

[Slip]

Postie is a very good job, go for it Slip

Not knocking the job, my Dad's been one for over 35 years, just didn't see it as something I'd ever do. But I've realised that I can't move out from London and expect London wages, postie jobs seem to be fairly decent paid wherever you go.