Dr_Pangloss Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 (edited) London is really for youngsters not ideal for families. Has anyone mentioned The Cotswolds London not ideal for families? Free public transport for kids, massive parks everywhere, history on every corner. Admittedly rough inner London south of the bridge is good stabbin' territory, but again it's down to finances to choose a location. Lots of trade offs, for a crap house in London you could buy a nice 3 bedroom detached one in Birmingham. Edited February 15, 2013 by Dr_Pangloss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Thing is, you can still make a lot of money on property in London. Problem is getting on the ladder to begin with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Unless you earn a shit load of money, London is frankly amongst the worst places to live in the UK because your quality of life will be (relatively) shit. It simply costs too much to rent even a room, let alone an apartment. I'm about to be shelling out around a grand month for something that is shite. For that I could rent a 3 bedroom house in Bournville. Suffice to say, I hate London. You're clearly living in the wrong part of London. Born and bred in Brum, apart from 3 years in Sheffield at Uni. Now live in London (13 years I think), wouldn't move anywhere else in the country, oh and I don't earn a sh1te load of money. Wife an I toyed with the idea of moving to Bristol for a while, but knocked on the head, for a number of reasons, but mainly because we love London. lol well I will be living in Surrey Quays so hardly the wrong part. I guess it depends what you define quality of life as. For me it's purchasing power and being able to save. As I said, for what I'm paying out I could rent a lovely 3 bedroom house in Bournville. For me quality of life just isn't that good in London. Birmingham is pretty underrated to be honest.. I don't get it. Why don't you rent the lovely three bed in Bournville then instead of paying for the shit place in London!? I'm guessing it's because it's all relative and the wages you'd get in B'ham wouldn't be as much as in London and so you wouldn't be able to afford the 3 bed anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Born in Brum and lived in Balsall Heath for the first 8 years of my life. Family home is now In Leamington Spa. For Work I lived in Nottingham for 2 years. Now live in London with the wife and have been here since 2010. I think Nottingham is a fantastic place. I lived in the Lace Market and Mapperley Park. Both great areas. London is brilliant if you can live in the right area. I lived in West Hampstead for 2 years and it was brilliant for everything. Leamington Spa is also great but if I moved back it would be to live in town near the Parade. Birmingham is where all my extended family and where I grew up. I love the city but I wouldn't live there. Personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted February 17, 2013 Administrator Share Posted February 17, 2013 Even though it's a little quiet at the moment, I love Bewdley. We've got a safari park, a steam railway, great restaurants and it's still small enough that there is actually a community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Community ? Is there where everyone knows each others business and there's constant curtain twitching ? Not to mention the swinging ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hev Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 I'm planning to leave Brum sometime in the next ten years , torn between Devon (I have one of my best friends living in Torbay), Worcester area - near family or Merseyside - no reason other than I love the Isle of Man and, apart from actually moving there itself, it's next best - 2 and a half hour quick sea trip on the catamaran from Liverpool for the odd weekend! PLUS you seem to get more for your money up there and I don't have much of that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Hmmm let me see, Devon or Liverpool. Tough one that ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Dragged up in Sutton Coldfield, did the tour of the B's. now been in Cornwall for 9years. Cornwall is seriously so laid back its asleep. Not much to do, no work outside the tourist industry and visitors with attitude are eaten..... ......but the surfs good and life is just a huge beach trip! Run for the Sun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Cornwall is seriously so laid back its asleep. Sounds perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Pretty warm too......has'nt snowed once yet and kids were down the beach yesterday. Do for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 (edited) Unless you earn a shit load of money, London is frankly amongst the worst places to live in the UK because your quality of life will be (relatively) shit. It simply costs too much to rent even a room, let alone an apartment. I'm about to be shelling out around a grand month for something that is shite. For that I could rent a 3 bedroom house in Bournville. Suffice to say, I hate London. You're clearly living in the wrong part of London. Born and bred in Brum, apart from 3 years in Sheffield at Uni. Now live in London (13 years I think), wouldn't move anywhere else in the country, oh and I don't earn a sh1te load of money. Wife an I toyed with the idea of moving to Bristol for a while, but knocked on the head, for a number of reasons, but mainly because we love London. lol well I will be living in Surrey Quays so hardly the wrong part. I guess it depends what you define quality of life as. For me it's purchasing power and being able to save. As I said, for what I'm paying out I could rent a lovely 3 bedroom house in Bournville. For me quality of life just isn't that good in London. Birmingham is pretty underrated to be honest.. I don't get it. Why don't you rent the lovely three bed in Bournville then instead of paying for the shit place in London!? I'm guessing it's because it's all relative and the wages you'd get in B'ham wouldn't be as much as in London and so you wouldn't be able to afford the 3 bed anyway. Economic necessity, the job market in Birmingham is absolutely shite whereas it isn't in London. You could rent a 3 bed room house in Bournville on about £26k a year, the London adjustment is generally overstated. So it's not all relative at all. If the job market were working properly in Birmingham then people may have half a chance. Edited February 17, 2013 by Dr_Pangloss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 I've found Cornwall a bit up it's own arse in recent years, thanks in no short measure to Rock, Padstow + Rick Stein, singing fishermen and those West Cornwall Pasty stands in all London stations. Much prefer the less pretentious East Devon area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 17, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted February 17, 2013 I've found Cornwall a bit up it's own arse in recent years, thanks in no short measure to Rock, Padstow + Rick Stein, singing fishermen and those West Cornwall Pasty stands in all London stations. Much prefer the less pretentious East Devon area. Agreed. Cornwall thinks it's 'Celtic fringe', and some of the locals share the worst attitudes of the Welsh (present Welsh company excepted!). Devon FTW. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I've found Cornwall a bit up it's own arse in recent years, thanks in no short measure to Rock, Padstow + Rick Stein, singing fishermen and those West Cornwall Pasty stands in all London stations. Much prefer the less pretentious East Devon area. Considering most of the new weath down here originates from the metropolis, thats a bit of a bizarre theory.......a bit like saying Sutton Coldfield residents are up their own arses, which I'm sure is'nt quite true. Agree, though, with mjmooney.....there is a element of the Celtic 'fringe' down here. They're great to wind up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Sutton Coldfield residents are up their own arses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Go Falcon lodge and say dat blud . Man dem **** you up star . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Had to look that up, thought Falcon Lodge was a pub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Nope , it is an area of council housing in Sutton, the residents of which are far from being uppity . I do love a good sweeping generalisation though . Did you know that everyone in Newtown is on the ganja ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 They probably are ;-) Falcon Lodge has its own Wiki page lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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