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We appear to have made almost 200k on our shitty little flat on the A1
in less than a year and a half :clap:
What say Awimb? Sell now in case the bubble bursts?
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It's all wooden dollars though, isn't it? If you sell, you have to buy somewhere else to live.
This new house will also recently have gone up in value by a similar amount. :shrug:
Your house isn't an investment. It is your home.
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Well, there's areas we would consider living where we could buy a family home
and where prices are not rising at the same rate as in London, so there's an argument for selling now.
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I'm just considering a 3 bedroomed, 3 bathroom detached house with garden and pool, for 110k.
It's in Hua Hin, mind, which is a bit of a commute. But if I sold up, f**ked off to the Land Of Smiles, and lived like a king happily ever after on 5k per month, is there anything about UK I might miss?
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No
The Arsenal are on the telly everywhere, sir c
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The view from Waterloo bridge. The view from the top of Great Gable.
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I'm worried I might start pining for drizzly grey days, a solid M25, Nicola Sturgeon on the telly,
Coronation St and HMRC raping my wallet.
I wonder whether I should get up at 5 am next Thursday to watch us getting gubbed by Barcelona live, or just check the result when I awake.
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I know, it's a scary thought.
No more work, though. No more tax demands.
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I'm supposed to be on flight back here from Malaga on Tuesday
landing about an hour before kick-off. Might miss the first 10 minutes or so. So won't see us level at any point :cry:
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According to the book I'm reading, in the 1930s houses in West London were being advertised to
working-class buyers at ~575GBP, at a time when a typical wage was about 4 pahnd a week. The deposit was a tenner, and the overall price was 2 years and 8 months wages.
The same house now probably costs about 20-25 times the average annual wage for the equivalent buyer.
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Remember turning up late with noo idea that super Almunia
Had already made a number of impossible save and we should have been 4 or 5 down already.
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We are one of the top 5-10 teams in the world. Surely it’s not a *total* inevitability that we get
raped hard in the gary, is it?
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Yes, and those hosues came with an outside lav, rising damp and rickets.
Your got more for your money in those days.
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The thing is, we actually want to win the European Cup.
Even a narrow aggregate defeat will feel like rape :mansplaining:
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Hang on, let's not try to walk before we can crawl
League title first, please. It's the only right and proper way to do it, after all.
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I think I did the same
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I actually think we will do well at home
a lead isn't out of the possibility. Very hard to see us maintaining it out there but who knows
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Cheap at double the price
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The only right and proper way to do it* is just to do it, imo.
It would be quite something for us to win both in the same season and there's no point making things more difficult than necessary.
*Your mum.
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Dunno. The metroland new-builds came with all mod cons, I think.
Inside loo, running water, electricity and so on. It was the inner London places that people were trying to get out of which had the features you described.
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f**k me - just did an online evaluation of my property
even the lower end price :yikes:
It's actually obscene
or in other words
:kerching:
Apologies to Ash for doubting his word at Christmas on an estimated price
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Nice.
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We still can't handle a warm, Wednesday night in Barcelona
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I've heard terrible things happen there, r
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You'll miss London hugely. But I think you know that.
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Yes. I'm soon to wander into town as we speak. Tailor's appointment, haircut,
cocktails at the Savoy, dinner at the Delaunay. You know the score.
And yet... imagine no more Monday mornings qua Monday mornings.
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And the locals can make a frightful racket
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I can't remember what I said now. Might be time to put the rent up though.
I have a Highgate history book with an ad for the houses on the Holly Lodge when they were built. Might be interesting to see what they went for back then, compared to average earnings at the time and compare with now.
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Yes, but it's the Monday mornings that make the Friday evening's so much more fun, surely?
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would seem as tedious as to work and all that.
Mind you, that was written by a bloke who wrote plays for a living. :- What the f**k would he know?
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Actually lower than what has come up but in the ballpark so to speak
that Highgate thing is interesting - mind you after taxes and converting back into pounds my wages are probably about average for 1920
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I agree, some obligation would be required for the sake of discipline, if nothing else.
Perhaps I could start an expat's newspaper; the British Bulldog, with a Telegraphesque editorial tone and articles bemoaning the paucity of decent staff and the repulsive habits of the locals.
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Although now one website has at a two grand less than I paid for it
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The Daily Thailegraph, surely?
You do realise that if you moved to Thailand, people would just assume you were a *****phile, don't you? :-(
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The kind of person who would assume such is thing is not the kind of person about whose assumptions
I would be inclined to care, if I may be as convoluted as so to say.
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Of course, of course. However, there would inevitably be difficult conversations for those of us
left behind.
"What happened to old Sir Charlie?"
"Oh, he lives in Thailand these days...
*AWKWARD PAUSE*
...He's not a nonce, though."
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Mind you, one never knows what might happen to a chap surrounded by such temptation.
It may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Sadly, these are exactly the sort of folk the judge will have been advised by
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I see you going more Colonel Kurtz, tbh.
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Apparently the 'Nam is also a good option. Cheapest of all is Cambodia.
I love Cambodia. Allegedly a retired couple who wish to live a 'western' lifestyle should budget 2,000 USD per month for all living expenses :hehe:
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My favourite Brando, I think.
Or possibly The Wild One, when he says "We don't go anywhere; we just *go*!"
