Potential house move again....

strtdv · July 2021

Reading this makes me glad I don't live in London. We live a 15 minute drive from the centre of Belfast in a 3 bed detached house with a decent garden and off street parking for 3 cars, close to a variety of good schools, and paid £190k for it 8 years ago.

£500k will buy you a nice 4 bed detached with a good garden in all but the most expensive parts of Belfast (and indeed in almost any part of Northern Ireland)

Cirrus · July 2021

The price of houses in London is a lot of money.

Where I live, in the elsewhere, for a lot of money you could buy a bigger house!

WiresDreamDisasters · July 2021

I should've predicted the response really

octatonic · July 2021

Cirrus said:

The price of houses in London is a lot of money.

Where I live, in the elsewhere, for a lot of money you could buy a bigger house!

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mgaw · July 2021

boogieman said:

mgaw said:

Personally I would relocate to North Cornwall and live an outdoor beach orientated lifestyle

Well ok, I‘m sure some people would love to do that, but what about your job, your child's schooling, keeping in contact with family and friends, the lack of infrastructure, transport links etc etc? It might sound idyllic on paper but it’s definitely not for everyone.

I live here @boogieman and its ace. Lack of infrastructure? Dont recognise that tbh. Its a bit out of the way for sure. Big difference as far as kids go is they are not growing up breathing the shite air in London. Mine finish school and go for a surf

mgaw · July 2021

I find the whole London thing ridiculous. Especially with a Young family. But hey everyone has their preferences

mgaw · July 2021

TTony said:

boogieman said:

mgaw said:

Personally I would relocate to North Cornwall and live an outdoor beach orientated lifestyle

Well ok, I‘m sure some people would love to do that, but what about your job, your child's schooling, keeping in contact with family and friends, the lack of infrastructure, transport links etc etc? It might sound idyllic on paper but it’s definitely not for everyone.

Drew in Cornwall .... can you imagine???

I can actually. He would gain a ruddy complexion, wear smelly clothes and wellies and fit in nicely with the local farmers

octatonic · July 2021

mgaw said:

TTony said:

boogieman said:

mgaw said:

Personally I would relocate to North Cornwall and live an outdoor beach orientated lifestyle

Well ok, I‘m sure some people would love to do that, but what about your job, your child's schooling, keeping in contact with family and friends, the lack of infrastructure, transport links etc etc? It might sound idyllic on paper but it’s definitely not for everyone.

Drew in Cornwall .... can you imagine???

I can actually. He would gain a ruddy complexion, wear smelly clothes and wellies and fit in nicely with the local farmers

and once a year we could saddle him up and ride him.

WiresDreamDisasters · July 2021

OK, well thanks for the advice all.

Philly_Q · July 2021

mgaw said:

I find the whole London thing ridiculous. Especially with a Young family. But hey everyone has their preferences

That's probably why they moved to Australia. But I thought it was from Glasgow.

mgaw · July 2021

octatonic said:

mgaw said:

TTony said:

boogieman said:

mgaw said:

Personally I would relocate to North Cornwall and live an outdoor beach orientated lifestyle

Well ok, I‘m sure some people would love to do that, but what about your job, your child's schooling, keeping in contact with family and friends, the lack of infrastructure, transport links etc etc? It might sound idyllic on paper but it’s definitely not for everyone.

Drew in Cornwall .... can you imagine???

I can actually. He would gain a ruddy complexion, wear smelly clothes and wellies and fit in nicely with the local farmers

and once a year we could saddle him up and ride him.

Why a saddle. He looks tame enough to go bareback surely!

MikeC · July 2021

I grew up in Wembley, still live in north London and my mum and brother are now in Stanmore / Canons Park respectively. Yes, I'd agree with leaving Queensbury. What about Canons Park? Or, looking at the Northern line, I'm less sure on Colindale, so much building works going on there...but there are some decent roads there slightly away from the new developments but heading towards Burnt Oak (but I think Burnt Oak is not great / burnt out).

Good luck. Prices are silly here.

scrumhalf · July 2021

The burnt oak after which the area is named was apparently used for local witch craft centuries ago.

Not much has changed!

WiresDreamDisasters · July 2021

Parts of Burnt Oak are okay. Got family and friends who live near Montrose Ave, and it's quite nice. They've just built a big park there and again, there are regeneration plans for the next 10 years or so.

Someone did just get murdered there the other week by the tennis courts though.

ICBM · July 2021

Be careful before assuming you can convert a garage into a studio. It will probably be built without a proper damp course, it will be hard to soundproof, and it may be hard to properly secure and heat, depending on what the roof is like.

Mine wasn't even suitable to convert into a decent workshop even though it was a very solid brick one, so in the end we decided to spend a lot more and have replaced with a proper two-floor extension so we got an extra bedroom as well.

VimFuego · July 2021

I can't see Drew in Cornwall. I mean, do we even know if he has a sister?!?

Kittyfrisk · July 2021

^ Who knew tennis courts were that dangerous.

p90fool · July 2021

boogieman said:

p90fool said:

If I've learned anything from this thread it's that there is an actual place called "Colindale".

I used to live not far from Drew’s old place. Colindale has the RAF museum, on the site of what used to be Hendon Aerodrome. There were loads of aircraft factories around the area at one point too. It’s mostly all gone now, there’s a huge amount of new build flats on the site. The Peel Centre, the old Met Police training college was very near there too.

Ah ok, I know the area then or at least have been to RAF Hendon and have passed Hendon police training college a few times.

mgaw · July 2021

VimFuego said:

I can't see Drew in Cornwall. I mean, do we even know if he has a sister?!?

Dont matter none he can have a go on mine if he wants, the fact shes my wife doesn't matter either

WiresDreamDisasters · July 2021

ICBM said:

Be careful before assuming you can convert a garage into a studio. It will probably be built without a proper damp course, it will be hard to soundproof, and it may be hard to properly secure and heat, depending on what the roof is like.

Mine wasn't even suitable to convert into a decent workshop even though it was a very solid brick one, so in the end we decided to spend a lot more and have replaced with a proper two-floor extension so we got an extra bedroom as well.

I'm fairly sure it'd be possible. Others in the area of the same house type and construction have been done.

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Brick up the dark blue garage door, floating floor with acoustilay 15 subsurface, add some skylights, should be pretty decent.

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