For some years now I've been thinking about moving from Norway to the UK. It's always been a dream as I love Britain and always felt very much at home there. I need to find a place where the house prices are cheap. Any ideas?
2006-12-09 10:43:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Other - Destinations
Hi Norway guy , sorry there are very few places left in the UK with cheap house prices , its one of our biggest bad ideas having such a strong market and prices have gone very high. If you want a non racial culture then I would suggest Scotland , the further north its better , for a nice city my home city is Glasgow and its a wonderful vibrant city with lots going for it , just now I live on the most north eastern point in the UK near Fraserburgh and Aberdeen is my nearest city , its a place with high wages and lower than average house prices but that's changing very quickly , very high on going to church but hard working and hard drinking are here too , the city is very good for shopping to satisfy women , good friendly pubs for the guy and a rubbish football club with a very good history. Depends what you want , my village has won best primary school for the last 2 years if you have kids its a top place, where would you like to live? contact Me for more info if you want. :O)
2006-12-09 11:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by Paul Sabre 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cheap and nice are, for the most part, mutually exclusive - if somewhere's cheap, it's generally because it's undesirable. Simple theory of supply and demand.
For all its faults, London is a brilliant place to live - it's endlessly fasincating and so varied that most people can find somewhere that suits them. It's one of the greenest capital cities in the world, too. Moreover, London is far more welcoming to outsiders than other parts of the country.
Yes, it is expensive, but effectively London house prices in will never drop long-term so your money would be safe as houses (if you'll excuse the pun). There might be a brief temporary blip in the next recession, but basically London is now operating in its own mini-economy as far as property is concerned (like Tokyo and New York) and in fifteen years time everyone who has bought now will be feeling totally smug that they own London property as by that point only banks will be able to buy within the M25. So the thing to do is mortgage yourself up to the hilt and buy as much as you can possibly afford and hang on ten years.
And gg, above - it's been 16 years since residential property was taxed by square fotage.
2006-12-10 00:51:04 · answer #2 · answered by onefishtwofish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Scottish, but have just bought a house close to Newcastle. Why not rent first and then make up your mind about where to settle. Are you looking for something in town or the country side? Glasgow is nice and cheaper than Edinburgh, the same goes for Aberdeen. I also like the Borders (between Scotland and England), you might want to try Selkirk which is lovely. Northumberland is great too and I think you find that people are a tad more friendly in the north, avoid London! Best of luck!
2006-12-09 11:16:43 · answer #3 · answered by Miranda Elizabeth 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately in the UK, theres no longer any such thing as a nice place with cheap houses. Its either a choice of living in a good area and paying a fortune, or living in a rough area with cheap housing. If you can live in a studio or a small flat then you might consider Surrey or Sussex, but transportation is not fantastic. Whatever you do, don't move to London. Its unfriendly and expensive.
2006-12-09 11:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by beanie 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Apparently worcester was voted as the best place to live but house prices here are stupidly high. Where I live in south wales has about the lowest, loads of people own their own homes including me and I'm only 21. We have nice scenery, mountains and valleys. Scotland has fantastic scenery too, it's great up there. Where I live you should live! Seriously, I got my house for £70,000 and it's soo nice, we are close to Cardiff and Newport for all the night life, work and shopping centres. I live in a pretty town, we have lakes and out of my window I can just see trees and few houses. Alot of Polish imigrants came here recently and there hasn't been any trouble at all. It does seam like a good place to live.
2006-12-09 10:57:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Being on holiday is very different from living day to day. It will be a big culture shock ... speaking from experience! Houses in the UK are climbing as we speak - nothing is cheap anymore ... and what is cheap is probably not where you want to be. When you say cheap ... how cheap do you actually mean (pounds)?
2006-12-09 10:57:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
lived in uk for 3 yrs, hard to afford living there , specially with council tax and all the other taxes they have there, houses get taxed by the sq feet so prices are outrageous. we lived in suffolk and cambridgeshire up by ely, countrywise it was pretty but still expensive but the british said it was more affordable than a lot of places. loved the beach up at old hunstanton and wales looked pretty too
2006-12-09 10:56:02 · answer #7 · answered by germanygirl_us 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not Birmingham... ideally you want to settle in a city so you don't stand out by having a different accent. Also it is important to find out about the area before you settle in it crime rates, local schools, proximity to pubs/clubs etc.
2006-12-09 10:55:56 · answer #8 · answered by Mae_79 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm Scottish and settled in Cheshire - it's lovely and so close to Manchester for those wild nights out. Its got everything you'll ever need. Except a beach - as Ian Brown said.
2006-12-09 10:47:28 · answer #9 · answered by sharon r 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Northern Ireland.....BUT house prices here and in the rest of the UK are 'going through the roof'.
2006-12-09 10:47:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋