would you move to north if salary is better

[djones123]

I have been working in south east and earning good money but also spending more as housing cost is more. We are renting and 39% of salary is going in rent. We are happy here and kids are going in good state schools but not saving that much money.

I have recently got an offer from north with the same package i am on now. I think property is cheaper in north/north middland and i will be able to save arounnd £350 to £400 per month.

Is it worth moving so that i can save more money and will be able to buy house in the future?

Edited by djones123 on Sunday 29th June 21:01

[LimaDelta]

There's not actually a huge difference in house prices to be honest (London excepted). I have been looking everywhere for a final family home and while there are obviously local variations and good/bad areas, I don't think there is a clear north/south line. At least, not enough to make a real difference to your quality of life or disposable income. Is a couple of hundred quid a month worth uprooting your family and forcing your kids to find new friends in a new school?

[Jasandjules]

For £300 a month your wife could get a part time or you could get a payrise or another role paying more?

Bear in mind moving will cost you - stamp on a new house. EA fees on your house. Removals company say £600. Purchase and sale legal costs - £1,000.

Now, those are going to add up to rather a lot are they not?

[0000]

Jasandjules said:

Bear in mind moving will cost you - stamp on a new house. EA fees on your house. Removals company say £600. Purchase and sale legal costs - £1,000.

Now, those are going to add up to rather a lot are they not?

Doubt it. Removals excepted.

djones123 said:

We are renting

[djones123]

Jasandjules said:

For £300 a month your wife could get a part time or you could get a payrise or another role paying more?

Bear in mind moving will cost you - stamp on a new house. EA fees on your house. Removals company say £600. Purchase and sale legal costs - £1,000.

Now, those are going to add up to rather a lot are they not?

Removal charges are one off and will be covered in two month savings. My kids are young, eldest is 7 yrs old so making new friends won't be any issue.

I don't think i will be able to save that much by living in south and won't be able to buy a house here.

[TheLordJohn]

djones123 said:

Removal charges are one off and will be covered in two month savings. My kids are young, eldest is 7 yrs old so making new friends won't be any issue.

I don't think i will be able to save that much by living in south and won't be able to buy a house here.

In response to your initial post - I'd move up North (if I didn't live here anyway) for LESS. I've spent c2 years down in the South East and I hated it. It's an absolute cesspit of despair.
And whoever thinks the housing prices aren't hugely different, I don't know where you're looking...!?
OP - you'd have to provide details of current location and possible move location for anyone but yourself to draw any accurate comparisons between the two.

[djones123]

TheLordJohn said:

djones123 said:

Removal charges are one off and will be covered in two month savings. My kids are young, eldest is 7 yrs old so making new friends won't be any issue.

I don't think i will be able to save that much by living in south and won't be able to buy a house here.

In response to your initial post - I'd move up North (if I didn't live here anyway) for LESS. I've spent c2 years down in the South East and I hated it. It's an absolute cesspit of despair.
And whoever thinks the housing prices aren't hugely different, I don't know where you're looking...!?
OP - you'd have to provide details of current location and possible move location for anyone but yourself to draw any accurate comparisons between the two.

I live near Woodley wokingham and job offer is from chesterfield near derby.

I know the north prices well as i used to live in north west and then west yorking and then south.

[Fittster]

If you can afford two lots of schools fees I'm assuming you're getting a decent monthly wage, therefore is £300 really worth the effort?

[djones123]

Fittster said:

If you can afford two lots of schools fees I'm assuming you're getting a decent monthly wage, therefore is £300 really worth the effort?

Kids are going to public schools not private.

[MartinQ]

I moved from Reading to Mansfield in 2007. We had a 2 bed ex-council semi in Whitley and for the same money bought a 3 bed detached in one of the best areas of Mansfield (yes, there is one!). Oh, and a Lotus Elise.

We've been looking to move again and for 220k you can get a good sized detached house. From my research, that's definitely not the case in the south. So, yes I did it and have not regretted it. Plus it's only a couple of hours to London down the M1 and we've probably been more often than we did when living in Reading due to having more disposable income.

[Gargamel]

Keswick, yes. Any of the "big" Northern cities, forget it - no interest.

[DanL]

djones123 said:

Kids are going to public schools not private.

You mean state schools. Public schools are how people refer to top tier private schools. Amazed you're on PH and don't know this, thought everyone on here went to Eton before assuming their directorships.

Edited to add - I wouldn't move, but then I'm a southerner. If you're comfortable with the north anyway, and given that you don't own anywhere so won't be troubled if house prices in the south rise faster than the north, it seems like a no brainer to move.

Only question - what are the career prospects like? Is the job you want after this one likely to be available in the north?

Edited by DanL on Sunday 29th June 21:02

[djones123]

DanL said:

djones123 said:

Kids are going to public schools not private.

You mean state schools. Public schools are how people refer to top tier private schools. Amazed you're on PH and don't know this, thought everyone on here went to Eton before assuming their directorships.

sorry i meant state schools. Thanks

[stuartmmcfc]

Chesterfield is a nice area.
Mansfield,not so much.
I usedto work inMansfield and if you went to a club and asked a girl to come outside, she used to think you wanted a fight

[TheLordJohn]

stuartmmcfc said:

Chesterfield is a nice area.
Mansfield,not so much.
I usedto work inMansfield and if you went to a club and asked a girl to come outside, she used to think you wanted a fight

MCFC OK!!

[black1]

MartinQ said:

I moved from Reading to Mansfield in 2007. We had a 2 bed ex-council semi in Whitley and for the same money bought a 3 bed detached in one of the best areas of Mansfield (yes, there is one!). Oh, and a Lotus Elise.

We've been looking to move again and for 220k you can get a good sized detached house. From my research, that's definitely not the case in the south. So, yes I did it and have not regretted it. Plus it's only a couple of hours to London down the M1 and we've probably been more often than we did when living in Reading due to having more disposable income.

Whitley aka the Bronx even oop north seems appealing than live there !

[Rick101]

I'd move up North for less money!

In chesterfield you'll have some great roads right on your doorstep duck.

[IainT]

Ditched London in late 2011 for the North West, took 6 months out before looking for work. the move was on the assumption that it'd eb for less money.

We took a household income drop to 63% of the London salaries in doing so. Mortgage dropped to 58% of the London cost but most other costs are pretty much the same barring travel which went up significantly as we now have to run a second car and do far higher mileage.

More than offsetting that is the amount of free time we have coupled with excellent quality of life - walking out of the back garden into the Peaks is fantastic. We're closer to my family and no further from my wife's - flight time to Sweden is the same from both locations! I've time for more fun stuff, joined a band and am having a great mid-life rock crisis.


I'm about to switch Jobs and, with my wife getting a raise recently we'll be on 90% of our 2011 income but will be massively better off in real terms than we would have been in London. We do occasionally miss the city though - access to quality food and choice, 24-hour amenities, etc.

If I were in my 20s there's no way we'd have moved though but in our 40s it was a simple choice.

[897sma]

Chesterfield is a nice town and most areas are ok although the west of the town is generally better. It's big enough to have some life but not so big that you have stty deprived areas. You also have the peak district on your doorstep and a few larger cities like Sheffield or Nottingham nearby or shopping at Meadowhall 20 mins away. Properties in the surrounding towns & villages like Bakewell or Matlock are not as expensive as you'd expect either. I travel the country a lot and there's no way you would get me to move anywhere within 50 miles of London unless I had enough money to live in one of the few really upmarket areas.

[KingNothing]

I already live in the North, so no I won't move, but can I still have more money please?