How much does moving cost

[PositronicRay]

DoubleD said:

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Well ive just checked 2 cities away from London. No houses for £120k

Oh and i dont live anywhere near london

Which two?

Cambridge and Oxford

Not in the city of Oxford, but plenty in Oxfordshire, Abingdon is only 5 miles away with great transport links.

[DoubleD]

PositronicRay said:

DoubleD said:

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Well ive just checked 2 cities away from London. No houses for £120k

Oh and i dont live anywhere near london

Which two?

Cambridge and Oxford

Not in the city of Oxford, but plenty in Oxfordshire, Abingdon is only 5 miles away with great transport links.

Ive just done a 5 mile search around Abingdon, all I could see was a few caravans and flats, but no houses?

[PositronicRay]

DoubleD said:

PositronicRay said:

DoubleD said:

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Well ive just checked 2 cities away from London. No houses for £120k

Oh and i dont live anywhere near london

Which two?

Cambridge and Oxford

Not in the city of Oxford, but plenty in Oxfordshire, Abingdon is only 5 miles away with great transport links.

Ive just done a 5 mile search around Abingdon, all I could see was a few caravans and flats, but no houses?

You need to hone your RM skills to net a bargain.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find...

Edited by PositronicRay on Monday 22 April 08:19

[DoubleD]

PositronicRay said:

DoubleD said:

PositronicRay said:

DoubleD said:

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Well ive just checked 2 cities away from London. No houses for £120k

Oh and i dont live anywhere near london

Which two?

Cambridge and Oxford

Not in the city of Oxford, but plenty in Oxfordshire, Abingdon is only 5 miles away with great transport links.

Ive just done a 5 mile search around Abingdon, all I could see was a few caravans and flats, but no houses?

You need to hone your RM skills to net a bargain.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find...

Edited by PositronicRay on Monday 22 April 08:19

I took off shared ownership from your search and it came back with 1 retirement flat.

[Lindun]

DoubleD said:

Obviously I chose those 2 cities to prove a point. People still need to live there though. And what is it that makes me stuck up? You seem to have a real issue with this and I have no idea why.

Also where I live makes no difference to any of this, but if it helps you, I live almost 100 miles north of London and this is the closest that I have ever come to living there.

There are pockets around the country where £120k won’t get you a house, but in the main it will in / around most cities around the country. Nobody was suggesting all, the statement was “most of the country” you’ve picked the outliers at the expensive end as if to prove it is representative of the majority. It isn’t. I could have picked somewhere like Bacup in Lancs, as a very deprived area and pretended that was representative of the whole country, but didn’t.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find...

Any chance you could give us an idea of where you’re from?

[DoubleD]

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Obviously I chose those 2 cities to prove a point. People still need to live there though. And what is it that makes me stuck up? You seem to have a real issue with this and I have no idea why.

Also where I live makes no difference to any of this, but if it helps you, I live almost 100 miles north of London and this is the closest that I have ever come to living there.

There are pockets around the country where £120k won’t get you a house, but in the main it will in / around most cities around the country. Nobody was suggesting all, the statement was “most of the country” you’ve picked the outliers at the expensive end as if to prove it is representative of the majority. It isn’t. I could have picked somewhere like Bacup in Lancs, as a very deprived area and pretended that was representative of the whole country, but didn’t.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find...

Any chance you could give us an idea of where you’re from?

I didnt pick the area to prove that they were normal, just to show that its not always possible to get a house for £120k.

[DonkeyApple]

Why has a sensible thread gone in such a weird direction? It’s blatantly bloody obvious that many towns and cities in the UK will have a plentiful supply of £120k property as houses and that many won’t. Andnis blatantly bloody obvious which ones will be which as it will be income and income security related.

Let’s move forward out of a quagmire of silliness.

[Russ T Bolt]

DoubleD said:

Ive just done a 5 mile search around Abingdon, all I could see was a few caravans and flats, but no houses?

The challenge a couple of pages back was a 40 mile radius.

If you try that for either Oxford or Cambridge you will find houses within budget.

[DoubleD]

Russ T Bolt said:

DoubleD said:

Ive just done a 5 mile search around Abingdon, all I could see was a few caravans and flats, but no houses?

The challenge a couple of pages back was a 40 mile radius.

If you try that for either Oxford or Cambridge you will find houses within budget.

Yes I imagine so, but then youre an awful long way from Oxford or Cambridge.

[Welshbeef]

DoubleD said:

Russ T Bolt said:

DoubleD said:

Ive just done a 5 mile search around Abingdon, all I could see was a few caravans and flats, but no houses?

The challenge a couple of pages back was a 40 mile radius.

If you try that for either Oxford or Cambridge you will find houses within budget.

Yes I imagine so, but then youre an awful long way from Oxford or Cambridge.

40 miles from Oxford and your beyond Newbury Reading Twyford etc to the South South East

[Lindun]

DoubleD said:

Yes I imagine so, but then youre an awful long way from Oxford or Cambridge.

And again. The challenge wasn’t to find a house firm£120k in a city. It was to show that there are houses at that price range in by far the majority of the country. Not all of it. By far the majority.

[DonkeyApple]

Welshbeef said:

40 miles from Oxford and your beyond Newbury Reading Twyford etc to the South South East

Don’t forget that a compass has 360 degrees. It also takes you up into the CV postcodes.

[DoubleD]

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Yes I imagine so, but then youre an awful long way from Oxford or Cambridge.

And again. The challenge wasn’t to find a house firm£120k in a city. It was to show that there are houses at that price range in by far the majority of the country. Not all of it. By far the majority.

Yes. Places where you can and places where you cant.

[Lindun]

DoubleD said:

Yes. Places where you can and places where you cant.

And the whole discussion came about because one poster suggested that he didn’t believe that £120k houses existed. That’s where the whole discussion started.

I have no idea what you think the debate was about.

[DoubleD]

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Yes. Places where you can and places where you cant.

And the whole discussion came about because one poster suggested that he didn’t believe that £120k houses existed. That’s where the whole discussion started.

I have no idea what you think the debate was about.

Well as we have established, getting a house for £120k depends on where you are looking. Some areas are a no go, others are ok.

[Welshbeef]

DonkeyApple said:

Welshbeef said:

40 miles from Oxford and your beyond Newbury Reading Twyford etc to the South South East

Don’t forget that a compass has 360 degrees. It also takes you up into the CV postcodes.

True - plus of course Swindon

[Lindun]

DoubleD said:

Well as we have established, getting a house for £120k depends on where you are looking. Some areas are a no go, others are ok.

And nobody suggested otherwise. The statement was that £120k houses are available in by far the majority of the country. No matter how many times you try to change what the original debate was, it won’t alter that it was what I’ve stated.

[DoubleD]

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Well as we have established, getting a house for £120k depends on where you are looking. Some areas are a no go, others are ok.

And nobody suggested otherwise. The statement was that £120k houses are available in by far the majority of the country. No matter how many times you try to change what the original debate was, it won’t alter that it was what I’ve stated.

I havent tried to change anything. Im sure you have your facts from a reliable source.

[Lindun]

DoubleD said:

Lindun said:

DoubleD said:

Well as we have established, getting a house for £120k depends on where you are looking. Some areas are a no go, others are ok.

And nobody suggested otherwise. The statement was that £120k houses are available in by far the majority of the country. No matter how many times you try to change what the original debate was, it won’t alter that it was what I’ve stated.

I havent tried to change anything. Im sure you have your facts from a reliable source.

It’s been proven on here

Here’s the original set of comments that started the whole discussion. Note the phrase “the majority of the country……………”

DoubleD said:

Thankyou4calling said:

singlecoil said:

Whereabouts does a house have to be to be worth £120K?

The majority of the country has plenty of houses for £120,000

Has it? Genuine question. Flats yes, houses im not so sure?

And here’s the evidence provided on this thread about houses across the country. Looks like the majority of the country to me. And that’s just 2 bed houses, not 1 or 3 bed ones, which will exist in some parts of the country too.

Uggers said:

DoubleD said:

Disconnect to what?

Searching for a house under £120K in 2 very affluent cities does not seem disconnected to you?



Here's to show how the rest of the UK housing market is. 28,000 2 bedroom houses for sale On Zoopla under £120K

Edited by Uggers on Sunday 21st April 23:17

[Petrolsmasher]

why on earth is any sad pathetic little person trying to bellitle anyone who lives in a cheaper area of the country, at least i have plenty of disposible income and im not mortgaged up to the eyeballs.