A place to call home: where next?

[Big George]

Anyone on the forum from Highams Park?

I'm just over Higham Hill in Woodford Green.

[Big George]

I’m single at 43 so I can pretty much do whatever I want.

Really Jim? I honestly alsoways pictured you 20 years older, on the verge of retirement. Must be yur cheery disposition that keeps you so young.

[btajim - mcfc]

You really need to try and be a little more tactful about what you say
Myself, and many others live in Newham
The club we all support is based in Newham

We get you don't like London, but you don't need to mention it on a daily basis. I wouldn't go on a Manchester city forum and start dissing Manchester and Mancunians all the time

Absolute nonsense. A huge number of active Hammers are nowhere near Newham and we all know why. This thread is full of people discussing Norfolk or Lincolnshire as homes. Are you calling them out to buy a home in Upton Park? No.

I'm also not a Mancunian.

[Crouchend_Hammer]

Absolute nonsense. A huge number of active Hammers are nowhere near Newham and we all know why. This thread is full of people discussing Norfolk or Lincolnshire as homes. Are you calling them out to buy a home in Upton Park? No.

I'm also not a Mancunian.

Of course I am not calling them out to buy a home in Newham
However, they are also not an outsider to the area constantly dissing the place
Fine, if you don't like Newham or London or wherever, but no need to bang on about it all the time when many many people on this site either grew up there or live there

Would you walk into a pub and tell everyone who was in it how **** it was?

[mushy]

Would you walk into a pub and tell everyone who was in it how **** it was?

Only after first telling them that he'd paid off his mortgage.

[Clucking Bell]

I've lived in the US for the last twenty-six years but, I'm retiring at the end of September and two of my three daughters are coming back to the UK to work and go to college. I'm thinking that my wife and I may come back for a few years until we're eligible for Social Security and Medicare.

My youngest and I rented an AirBnB in Ely when we were back in April. I liked the fact that it's a fifteen minute train ride to Cambridge, another fifteen minutes to my sister's in March and an hour and a bit to Kings Cross. However, while price isn't really an issue, I'm struggling to wrap my head around the fact that I can spend seven hundred grand and still be in earshot of my neighbours.

Anyone got any ideas? I want to be within two hours of London by train and ideally within half an hour of somewhere reasonably civilized i.e. a city with a university. I'm a cyclist so reasonably hilly areas are good and I also like sailing so I want to be an hour or less from the coast. I've half-assed looked at the Essex coast around Holland-On-Sea and Kent in the Hastings area but, as I've probably spent three months in the UK in the last two decades, I've no particular dog in the fight.

[pablo jaye]

CB - what about West Sussex - Chichester, Pompey and Brighton are all within a reasonable distance, South Downs for cycling, Chichester Harbour and The Solent for Sailing and just over an hour or so from Waterloo.

[Monkeybubbles]

[ageing hammer]

Her legs maybe yeah

[Rust]

I've lived in the US for the last twenty-six years but, I'm retiring at the end of September and two of my three daughters are coming back to the UK to work and go to college. I'm thinking that my wife and I may come back for a few years until we're eligible for Social Security and Medicare.

My youngest and I rented an AirBnB in Ely when we were back in April. I liked the fact that it's a fifteen minute train ride to Cambridge, another fifteen minutes to my sister's in March and an hour and a bit to Kings Cross. However, while price isn't really an issue, I'm struggling to wrap my head around the fact that I can spend seven hundred grand and still be in earshot of my neighbours.

Anyone got any ideas? I want to be within two hours of London by train and ideally within half an hour of somewhere reasonably civilized i.e. a city with a university. I'm a cyclist so reasonably hilly areas are good and I also like sailing so I want to be an hour or less from the coast. I've half-assed looked at the Essex coast around Holland-On-Sea and Kent in the Hastings area but, as I've probably spent three months in the UK in the last two decades, I've no particular dog in the fight.

Take a look at Uttlesford / Bishop's Stortford.

30/40 mins from Cambridge, London is an hour away, you can drive to Stratford relatively easily, the Rodings is great for cycling.

[sussexhammer74]

I am in Hastings so you got any questions about the area drop up a PM.

To be honest, not the greatest for commuting to London if you are doing day in day out even though three commuting routes to London. Hastings - Eastbourne - Brighton Main line (joins at Wivelsfield) over 2 hrs though. Hastings to Charing Cross direct via Tonbridge about 1 hr and half. Hastings - Ashford and then HS1 into St Pancras about 1hr and half.

It is hilly Hastings but once outside relatively flat for cycling. You have got Eastbourne/South downs/Brighton to the West. Ashford/Folkestone/Dungeness/Dover to the East. Tunbridge Wells/Tonbridge northwards.

You find a sailing club all along the south coast.

I find the community and events very good in the town. Eastbourne bigger than Hastings, more upmarket, better for shopping (if that is your thing). Some of the small towns north of Eastbourne are good but lacking the facilities.

Definately the cheapest part of Sussex as Mr Monkey bubbles will agree

[DrVenk]

Anyone got any ideas? I want to be within two hours of London by train and ideally within half an hour of somewhere reasonably civilized i.e. a city with a university. I'm a cyclist so reasonably hilly areas are good and I also like sailing so I want to be an hour or less from the coast.

Check out Wivenhoe mate. Just over an hour into London, surrounded by Constable country, superb for walks/cycling, great for socialising with a mixed professional/educated bunch, and plenty of sailing going on (it's on a nice part of the River Colne estuary).

If it seems to tick the boxes, feel free to DM me

My favourite quote about the place: "It's a drinking village with a fishing problem".

[Up the Junction]

I'm struggling to wrap my head around the fact that I can spend seven hundred grand and still be in earshot of my neighbours.

Anyone got any ideas? I want to be within two hours of London by train and ideally within half an hour of somewhere reasonably civilized i.e. a city with a university. I'm a cyclist so reasonably hilly areas are good and I also like sailing so I want to be an hour or less from the coast.

As a recent convert Cluckers, I'll throw this into the mix...

The Yorkshire Dales (2 hours) and the Peak District (an hour) are close enough to still enjoy a (spectacular) full day on wheels. All other boxes ticked and you'll get excellent bang for your buck.

You can get a view like this for just a little more than the figure previously referred to...

Link: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... otoCollage

But if neighbours are a definite no-no, this is within earshot of the city, within a similar cost bracket and in a surrounding area well-favoured by cyclists...

Link: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY


- UtJ, On behalf of the Lincolnshire Public Information Bureau & Marketing Board

[mushy]

Venky,
Have you moved?

[DrVenk]

Yup. Should have moved January but was in hospital end of December. Then finally won my mum's elder abuse case, got her settled in Maldon, and so made the move back to good old Wiv last month.

Will text ya mate. Have been very flaky over the past year with keeping in touch with people but now got my head sorted and life back together again.

[hammer etc]

Anyone got any ideas? I want to be within two hours of London by train and ideally within half an hour of somewhere reasonably civilized i.e. a city with a university. I'm a cyclist so reasonably hilly areas are good and I also like sailing so I want to be an hour or less from the coast. I've half-assed looked at the Essex coast around Holland-On-Sea and Kent in the Hastings area but, as I've probably spent three months in the UK in the last two decades, I've no particular dog in the fight.

What about the cotswolds?

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

What about the cotswolds?

££££££££££££££

[WHU Independent]

Another + 1 for Lincoln.

Quiet, safe, great value for money, people are nice, it's mostly flat, top community and no drama.

To quote my old man:"I wished I would have moved up here 20 years ago."

[the pink palermo]

- UtJ, On behalf of the Lincolnshire Public Information Bureau & Marketing Board

AKA Come and join us in the middle of nowhere, where signposts read "London - 25 years".

[The Old Man of Storr]

Our current guest who booked for 5 weeks [ he'll have tenancy rights by the end ] said to me that he'd never leave ' London ' - he's an artist who used to own a house up in North Skye [ Waternish ] but got fed up with the weather and sold up -

He's from Teddington .



He doesn't weigh two tons either .



If I could have my time all over again I'd have bought a house in the Morayshire / Aberdeenshire countryside .