And David Wulff thinks Tiverton is bad...

Lost User

My home town is now infamous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2812513.stm[^] Sigh. My wife and I are seriously considering moving away. Forgetting the above, this area is now one of the most expensive places to live outside of London. The average house price in the Newbury area is now £210,000. Madness. We could sell up and buy a bloody mansion in Wales - the only thing that stops us is job security (I am living in the right place for IT jobs ... if we moved away and then I lost my job, we could end up well and truly screwed). I currently work from home 4 days a week and access my companies system via a VPN over ADSL. Without the connection, I couldn't do my job ... so I'd need broadband access. I really feel sorry for people in this area who are just starting out in life - you'd need to be very highly paid to buy even a one-bedroom starter home. Moving away is becoming more and more tempting. Anyone else taken the plunge and moved to a more rural/cheaper area?

When I am king, you will be first against the wall.

benjymous

:wtf: -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

Lost User

I haven't moved south yet and will do everything to avoid it for that reason. Why on earth do companies go down there anyway ? There is technology available outside the southeast ! The tigress is here :-D

Dy

Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: I really feel sorry for people in this area who are just starting out in life - you'd need to be very highly paid to buy even a one-bedroom starter home. Living in London is killing my wallet! I moved here after Uni. to find that my monthly rental costs for a flatshare are over 3 times as much as they were in Manchester... There's no chance of me buying a house down here, unless I win the lotto Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: Moving away is becoming more and more tempting. Anyone else taken the plunge and moved to a more rural/cheaper area? Kinda; once my girlfriend and I have paid off the student dept (years down the line yet), we were thinking of doing two years for VSO (http://www.vso.org.uk[^])

Dylan

Roger Wright

I'll take a gunshot wound over a harpoon any day! Much cleaner and easier to treat. And you folks think Americans are violent...:laugh: Is 210,000 bad? I recently visited my mother in the PRC and scanned the paper for housing. There isn't a single home listed for less than $400,000, and this is in a tiny agricultural community about 60 miles from the nearest job center (San Diego)! I can build a small tract of 8 - 10 homes here for that much, and they'd be nicer houses. What are young people just starting out supposed to do, live in tents?:mad: It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003

David Wulff

I get worried when I see my name in a thread title, but I get really worried when I see Tiverton in there too. :eek: That attack is scary, I don't think we've had many harpoon cases locally.

David Wulff

"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson

Roger Wright

A harpoon is the preferred method for catching women in Bullhead City, especially in summer, around the lake. It isn't mandatory for the hunter to have a wooden leg, but it is considered good form. It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003

Anna Jayne Metcalfe

It's completely nuts, and sooner or later something's got to give. When it does, it won't be pleasant. :( I'm not expecting to have any hope of buying another property for several years now (I'm in Basingstoke), particularly since I'm paying a third of my income in maintenance now! For the time being I've rented a room in a shared house so I've got a chance to save up, but in the long term it sucks, it really does. Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk

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