Wot , nobody said Crookes yet! A good compromise, not as spendy as Crosspool or Fulwood but very handy for Peak and city centre Shpping centre has nice independent shops as well as the usual suspects. Still some nice houses not bought by rich Londoners for their offspring to go to Uni. Your pot should go a long way.
We have lived there a long time and have never found a good enough reason to leave
I'll look that up, thanks for the info 🙂
The problem with the villages surrounding Derby is most of them are earmarked for massive expansion
Yeah. I did wonder. that doesn't bother me as such as I won't be living on one, but I'd check before I offered on a house...
I don't know if I'd get Mrs R as far north as Sheffield. I'd go there in a heartbeat though. Time will tell we're going to visit soon
relocator - MemberSheffield fantastic and great riding but 175k won't get you very fa
You've misread me. Our current house in Sheffield would Be worth about that much. But as we're in the Home Counties it's worth double that! Minus what's left of our mortgage, then plus a redundancy payment gives us up to £325k to play with, which appears to be approaching mansion level in Sheffield
I just want a 3 bed detached with a garden that's best measures in parts of an acre and a double garage/workshop/outbuildings
You'll struggle to get a massive garden in belper unless you compromise on an old run down place.
I'm in Matlock, prices are pretty high. I couldn't find anything with a decent size garden.
Parent in laws have just moved to belper last month, paid exactly £325k and rear garden measures 40x40 feet.
Left-field suggestion. How about somewhere like Edale (very rural) or Hathersage on the Hope Valley rail line that runs between Manchester and Sheffield?
Edale is lovely.
But I wouldn't want to live there.
We still have to work and there's virtually zero jobs either of us would want without driving miles and miles.
And that's a BIG part of it. We originally looked at Shropshire, Worcestershire etc but whilst it's beautiful there's bugger all there. I don't want to be driving to work, I want to cycle. MrsR would rather walk I reckon.
Same for shopping. Right now we can cycle to any major supermarket and we'd miss that.
I freely admit that where we live now, whilst not the most glamorous area, is superbly well served with any amenity you'd ever want. We can honestly get to Canada faster than we can get to Scotland right now.
We're never going to replicate that, and we used to say we'd like to live in the county, but actually now having a real option to move out of the south east we've had pleanty of conversations and we don't want to be in a smalll village in the middle of nowhere.
I'll lay my cards on the line, but if Otley, near Leeds, was further south, we wouldn't be looking anywhere else.
Nice small town, all the shops you need, easy distance from a city (for work and play) for MrsR and a good bike shop in town for me.
The South-Western towns/'burbs of Sheffield look spot on to me, as does Chesterfield and Derby.
We need to go to them all and see, so we've booked 3 days off to go and look
In recommending what you've got fashion, Matlock. Awesome riding, climbing, throw a boat in the river if you're into that. Decent pubs and a few good restaurants. I lived just outside Maidstone, then all over with work, came to Matlock climbing for the weekend, got rained-off, went to the estate agents, job done. Wouldn't change it for the world. I'm genuinely loathed to put my bike on the car there's that much around here.
What Jameswilliams said up there. Sheffield's ace.
I'm from Chesterfield but haven't lived there since after Uni (Im 42 now). I wouldn't rush back, but I guess a lot of that is because I live in Edinburgh centre, and why would I leave that? Chesterfield town centre has declined a lot in my lifetime (although admittedly not as poorly as many other places). If I was to got back to that area, it would be the West side. When I visit my folks, I always take either road, CX or MTB bike because there is plenty to go at being right on the edge of the Peaks.
Greenhill or Bradway for the win!