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otatop

Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 1425
Location: North London

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 05 8:40 pm Post subject:

...Number 38... I used to get that to Whipps Cross, then pick up my bike and ride home to Woodford...

My OH drives a 38 bus - one of the last routemasters. I'm told that it will be replaced by a hated "bendy" - except that it terminates round Hackney Ponds, which a "bendy" can't do, so it has to terminate at some roundabout which I'm not familiar with - which has roadworks for the forseeable future.........

Mad Dad

Joined: 12 May 2005
Posts: 407
Location: Nowhere near where I want to be

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 4:15 pm Post subject:
4 bed end terrace. No gardens but lottie five minutes cycle away. would love to move somewhere more rural but finaces being what they are.....

Gertie

Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 5:35 pm Post subject:

simon wrote:

Will wrote:

What I don't get is how so many people on this board have managed to get themselves mortgage free on large and desirable properties with land...it makes me think I'm going wrong somewhere...

Well, we had to move to France to do it but we love it here now so we were forced into a very good move. I think it is getting quite hard to do this in England now (and indeed in France the property prices are moving so fast.) If it hadn't been for the recent property boom in England however I think that I may still now have been typing this message from our "Yorkshire semi"

Ah, Simon, I'm typing this from our Yorkshire abode, feeling very envious of you! Just to let you know the weather is a bit cool at the moment and the sky is a bit grey - still a bit of rain will be good for the garden and allotment!

I would love to get somewhere with a bit of land, I'd be happy with enough for Jas, the hens, oh Lundy and me!!!

Still, we are better off than a lot of folk - even though we wish we had more - there are lots of poor folk who wish they were in my shoes.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 9:04 pm Post subject: Re: what do you live in

Nanny wrote:

interesting to see how many people are actuallylucky enough to have no mortgage

what a thing that must be!

We spend the first twenty-five to thirty years of our lives wishing we had one and the rest of it wishing we hadn't!!

Am in a one bedroom flat with a little garden, and an allotment about a mile away. I'm rather proud of the garden, it was just lawn this time last year and I did all the work myself, it was taken early Spring:

ButteryHOLsomeness

Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 770

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 9:09 pm Post subject:

living in a 2 bedroom flat (family accomodation for edinburgh uni) in a large block of flats... has excellent walled mature garden with paths and benches etc BUT we aren't allowed drying lines, compost bins or to plant anything

on a 4-5 year wait for and allotment too

i've got my eye on a piece of land just outside penicuik in a little village called bilston...wonder if they'd notice if i just took over

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 9:11 pm Post subject:
PS Naomi your home is beautiful, I luurve the kitchen (and the horsey!)

Naomi

Joined: 26 Mar 2005
Posts: 1945

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 9:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks Nettie.
We have done all the work ourselves too.
We are on a very tight budget, so almost all our household stuff is other peoples 'junk' or charity shop or car boot bargains! I have a couple of bits I have salvaged from skips and my cream solid fuel rayburn came from an old derelict cottage that was being demolished in our village. The butler sink was found in a garden and given to us for free ,our kitchen sofa was someones elses throw out!
Your garden looks great. I really want a greenhouse like yours, but am waiting for a bargain one!

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 9:39 pm Post subject:
Hi Naomi, it was less than 200 quid, but it's only 4' by 6'. It's enough to get the veggies started off in though If you're a fan of cryptic puzzles then the assembly instructions are rather entertaining! Buttery, I'm so glad I'm not the only flat-dweller on here!

Quelly

Joined: 21 Jun 2005
Posts: 29

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 10:46 pm Post subject:
ooh Jane, as a gooner, I'm jealous of your Highbury residence..sounds lovely! Naomi..beautiful house you have there Nettie: your garden is looking good.. I just live in a one bedroom mess in North London...hoping to move out soon fingers crossed

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 05 11:31 pm Post subject:

Nettie, your garden looks lovely!...You've got everythimg in there, colour, bulk, grrenhouse, butt, yet it's all in proportion. Even the gravel path. It's lovely!

I feel awkward when people say "aw, I 've got this 23rd floor flat in Soweto" or some such, because I'm so BLOODY lucky to have what I do. All of us has someone below and also above above on the ladder, and it only takes the odd slip up to drop a few rungs. We were bloody poor for twenty years, due to Mrs Thatchers peoperty boom, we didn't shop till the pay was in the bank, (day or two after pay day)...for 20 years. So this goes some small inexistent way to feeling guilty for peeps with no cash now. You can all come camp in my wood if you want though............

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 05 12:33 pm Post subject:

Don't feel awkward madman you worked hard for it. Good for you. Imagine how awkward I feel re inheritance of a water mill (well my sister and I) - I find myself doing it down to justify having it "well it is drerlict and the top field floods most winters etc". But I've worked BL@@DY hard for my little terrace which is so very nearly paid off! and I am proud of that because it is by sheer dertimation and near poverty that I got it. Eating rice mixed with catering instant soup powder for a week got the morgage payment together one time!

I think it'll be bunny burgers to get the mill sorted - got to get a gun and miss the ones with mixi though!

Jill

Joined: 23 Jun 2005
Posts: 13

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 05 6:07 pm Post subject:

Hi we live in 5 bedroom victorian terrace, on 4 floors, v smal garden, also are lucky enough to own place in brittany with 3 acres, very overgrown when last went, needs some TLC, hoping to get it to pay for itself one day when all renovated, I may be 80 by that time. Also have buy to let property, not by choice, more of needed the 5 bedrooms before we sold the other smaller house, hoping to sell everything and buy somewhere in cumbria, offers on 2 houses so maybe we will get there if everything goes through, no money though,

pennies in bricks and mortar

Jill

jjojjas

Joined: 07 Aug 2005
Posts: 4
Location: north east uk

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 05 3:41 pm Post subject:

Interesting post this isn't it. So a good one for my first contribution.
I live in a 3 bed victorian terrace which is up for sale. Moving either 30 mile away in northeaset near newcastle (if the sale hasn't fell through!) or 150mile away to Lincoln. The latter would require a substantial career change as I'd need to drop of the top of the ladder back to the bottom............may be worth it for quality of life though.

looking at starting to grow more food and get some livestock. Not an option if I stay in Newcastle though! I may be able to manage veg and a few chickens thats all.

I'll be keeping mortgage whatever happens....boo!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46240
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 12:58 pm Post subject:
1 bed flat on the top of a tower with an allotment and local urban river , forage and nature . we go away to forage sometimes . it serves for now but .........

giraffe

Joined: 07 Oct 2005
Posts: 272
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 1:18 pm Post subject:
Ramshackle 3 bed victorian semi. Good sized garden and practically no mortgage left The house is being renovated at the moment - am having double glazing in four days before xmas - they promise us it'll be ready...

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