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?

[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

[nigel]

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

[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 So you can pick up a cupboard in Central London for just under £100,000

[PeterB]

House prices are rapidly dropping now

Yep. I think I did well to sell last autumn!

[tomm]

House prices are rapidly dropping now 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

[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 So you can pick up a cupboard in Central London for just under £100,000

Please dont say your thinking of moving to London

[walesrob]

Please dont say your thinking of moving to London

Ha! New Crime wave hits London.

[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...epeatingloop=Y

This for london and surrouding area.

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/use...T2?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!! What went wrong?
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!)
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!! What went wrong?
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!)
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 only area worse around there is the town south of it with a Zoo

[nigel]

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

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

[andypaul]

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

Its a nice place compared to many places in the World

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

[tomm]

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

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

[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

[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

and why is that? curious

[keithAngel]

and why is that? curious

Because of this

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...BritishAccents

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/sear...&step=val_form

[andypaul]

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

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