[Closed] Where would you live if you had £500k?

Blimey.

you'll need a long lead for your Flymo

Was there not a case of anthrax found at Thankerton ?
Does the Clyde not start from there ?

Yeah but Perchy it's in Scotlands Covid hotbed 🙂

We rather stupidly had been considering a house in the Aviemore area for, well, a while. Having looked at a fair few we capitulated on it and now - mental. A place in BoG that I looked at in JUne sold for circa 450k and it was a pretty average 3 bed on a weird section that had been tarted up.
For the NZ questions, NZ has no capital gains tax so anyone with money buys property. The prices are generally ballistic and have been going that way since 1999. I bought my first place there for circa $200k and it would be 700+ now. Even the house we sold before we came back changed hands 18 months later for +13%. YOu need deep pockets, even with the exchange rate.

Was there not a case of anthrax found at Thankerton ?

Maybe, many years ago. Just as there were numerous cases of bubonic plague in that London.

Does the Clyde not start from there ?

No. Leadhills.

Yeah but Perchy it’s in Scotlands Covid hotbed

Look up "Self isolating" in the dictionary and there's just a picture of the road sign to Thankerton.

Was going to say my house but sweet baby jeebus Perchy, what a find. I want a trout fishery!

How hypotnetical is this? Like, do I have to stay in work? Are there any visa issues abroad?

UK - south Manchester. Peaks, Wales, Lakes all within easy striking distance. Good city. Good train connections to London. Shit weather.

Non-UK fantasy - dunno, somewhere which has hot summers and cold winters. Somewhere with skiing, climbing, cycling, via ferata, hiking, all the shizzle.

Why not north Manchester

Lakes all within easy striking distance

Yeah, but not in your actual garden though are they? 😉

In the spirit of the STW stealth ad, if anyone's interested in a detached 4 bed, 2 bath, large sunny garden, garage, double driveway, house on the edge the lovely market town of Cirencester ('the capital of the Cotswolds'), within easy reach of, er, the Cotswolds, and Flyup419 is 15mins away, also FoD in 45 mins, Brecons in about 90 mins, BPW probably the same (I've never been!), M4, M5, Brizzle, Heathrow in an hour, blah blah blah, I know one that's gone on the market this very morning. You'll get change from your £500k too 🙂

Does it have a trout fishery?

C'mon @IHN, you how this works. Put the rightmove link up so we people can say what's wrong with it

😉

Why not north Manchester

Dunno actually!

Although Manchester is the wrong side of the Pennines, honestly don't know if I could deal with all the rain. It was bad enough on the other side 🙂

Does it have a trout fishery?

It's got a pond, you could put some trout in that. Well, a trout. As long as it wasn't bothered about moving around too much. And it happily gets along with frogs.

C’mon @IHN, you how this works. Put the rightmove link up so we people can say what’s wrong with it

I think you'll find that how it actually works is other people find it on Rightmove and then tell me what's wrong with it. I'm not going to stand in the face of tradition.

Now I’ve thought about it some more I think I’d move from my two bed terrace in Macclesfield to Alderley Edge where £500k would buy me a one bedroom flat.

kilo
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Can’t believe that with a fantasy £500k people are choosing to stay in GB – bit of a lack of imagination there 😉

I guess people recognise (assuming you are a British Citizen) you don't have a right of residence outside the UK and RoI ;-). Researching and getting permanent residency is a faff and/or costly and/or not possible. Also see issues of not speaking the local language and perhaps not really trying that hard to learn it, and the grass is not always greener. And people have friends and family here, and people are creatures of habit and whilst they may not realise it, they find their own culture and way of life very homely and comforting. Personally I would be looking to retire quicker and live somewhere cheaper.

If it's just £500,000 for a house but no savings and you still have to work, then you need somewhere with employment? Agreed with everyone saying there are literally millions of homes that cost less than £250,000 with a big of space for storing all your toys throughout the UK, you must be looking at honey-pots. And also the 'grass isn't always greener'. If you are a social person you should start with looking for well-functioning communities.

So a smaller place and you'd be living in Alderley Edge. Win, er, win.

My post may not have been serious in nature 😉

I’d buy a 3 bed house where I live now for £250k and then put the balance in a savings account.

Nor mine 🙂

TBF, I fairly recently bought two pints and a glass of wine in a pub in Alderley Edge, and it only cost £24.

That’s an absolute bargain for Alderley

Alderley Edge is mental....I hate the place! I drove through the other day and it seems like Range Rover Sports are the cars of the poor people there now....it was mainly Aston Martins and Bentley's! I just don't get it, other than a decent Oxfam there's nothing there....all of the restaurants and bars are bang average at best given the prices!

Never thought I’d see the day that living in Congleton in positive light

Try spending most of your life in the shit part of Stoke-on-Trent

Hang on, there's a not-shit part of Stoke On Trent?

Bloody hell @konagirl thanks for the depressing shot of reality on what struck me as a thread for people to live out their fantasy limited budget house, happy Friday everyone 😉
Obviously the correct STW answer is five miles down the road from trails you already ride cos you want to be near Auntie Mabel and one day you’ll be old and won’t need a trout farm then, in fact that bloody trout farm will be a burden!!!!!

Alderley Edge is mental….I hate the place!

It’s utterly bizarre isn’t it? Mrs F is from there and has a normal family. It’s like two villages. One normal and one so far up it’s own arse as to seem like a parody. Trust me to end up with a poor wife from Alderley 😂

A penthouse flat looking south towards the Pentlands in Oxgangs, Dunedin
You can imagine your in New Zealand but your no
No long flights and £410,000 still in your wallet

Bloody hell @konagirl thanks for the depressing shot of reality on what struck me as a thread for people to live out their fantasy limited budget house, happy Friday everyone 😉
Obviously the correct STW answer is five miles down the road from trails you already ride cos you want to be near Auntie Mabel and one day you’ll be old and won’t need a trout farm then, in fact that bloody trout farm will be a burden!!!!!

Ha ha, aye fair enough. If I had enough to retire on and the money to get residency, I'd retire to South Africa or similar and go looking for wildlife. No social life though.

I think honestly the last year has been pretty rubbish, so it would be nice to actually retire and therefore I am actually looking at it seriously. And in seriousness, I have lived abroad and I wouldn't want to do that when my and my partner's parents are getting older, so yes I would actually move back up north to near my parents or his parents and where all our life-long friends are. That's the reality.

A do-upper not far from me, just a smidgen over price-wise but I reckon they'd take less as it's been up all year.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/96650840#/media

Note Pic 7, and how small the 4-over AGA looks in the room...

What is the Scots for 'money pit'?

Ah yes Alderley Edge, part of the golden triangle with Prestbury and Wilmslow.
Many of my customers were from there and Hale.
The old money families great to deal with, New money were an absolute nightmare.

Anyway where we live, here in Marple has all the things that the OP needs or wants, yet it too has housing stock with prices going through the roof.
A 2 bed bungalow with a decent garden has sold straight away for £380,000. A year ago that would have been £100,000 cheaper.

Still £500,000 would get you something decent with a garden, nice countryside, independent shops and a choice of good foodie places to eat and drink.

Can I stay where I am and just take the cash please, then I could jack in work

I think you’ll find that how it actually works is other people find it on Rightmove and then tell me what’s wrong with it. I’m not going to stand in the face of tradition.

This one?

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/9535931/

Well, you would have won the five pound prize, but unfortunately you've forfeited that by finding it on On The Market, not Rightmove.

This one?

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/9535931//blockquote >

Well, for a start your shelves above the piano are not straight!

(Looks like a nice place, good luck with the sale)

 

@Elshalimo I rented a cottage in Holywell Green for afew years, loved it TBH but yeah got abit wild in the winter! Couldn't afford to buy anywhere big enough though so moved further down towards Fax

@IHN - I found it earlier on RightMove but didn't want to spoil the fun. That tree bookshelf thing is lovely. Did you make that?

@halifaxpete - it's been cold, raining and windy most of the day up here. Same as usual then ☹️

That tree bookshelf thing is lovely. Did you make that?

I put it up, does that count? 🙂 It was made by these folks, looks like they don't make them any more:

https://www.bespoakinteriors.co.uk/product-archive/

Nice house that IHN!

With £500k I'd get a nice house in semi-rural NE Cumbria. Ideal for hill walking, road biking, MTB and sea-kayaking in Dumfries & Galloway

I’d stay in Shropshire; we can roll out of the door onto some nice local trails and are surrounded by great places to hike and bike. You also don’t need anywhere near 500k to live in a nice house in a beautiful location. We love the seasons too, somewhere that gets too hot wouldn’t work for us. 🙂

I cant find anything nasty tio say about the house apart from a modern box like that worth that much?

You could get a very similar house for half that in the area between peebles and Edinburgh or something much nicer such as:

under half a million - 7 bed https://espc.com/property/lindores-60-old-town-peebles-eh45-8je/35880397?sid=260584
1/4 million 4 bed modern https://espc.com/property/38-kittlegairy-view-peebles-eh45-9lz/35800303?sid=260584

Peebles area is a good choice for me.

You could get a very similar house for half that in the area between peebles and Edinburgh

I cant find anything nasty tio say about the house apart from a modern box like that worth that much?

That is just the state of the housing market where many of us live and not much we can do about it if we want to live where we do (along with a a lot of others causing the supply/demand issue and ridiculous prices)
As I posted earlier, £450K would get you a static caravan set in an old field with 80 other static caravans just down the road from me.

zilog - that big house is beautiful! It has a turret FFS! Its was just a quick glance at the local market.

Scotland.

Oh hang on, Im already here 😀

So Scotland on a 500 acre estate. Cottage is fine.