NS, whats is the attraction for you?
Oct 27th 2011, 4:26 pm
#47
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
But I love sunshine and summer
I also don't like Racoons, Flurries in October (or snow, EVER), Tim Hortons coffee (or any coffee)
Oct 27th 2011, 4:26 pm
#48
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
Regardless of cheap vs expensive, UK crime vs NS crime, etc etc
I like it here. The UK could become the most wonderful place in the world and I would still want to be here.
I loved England, my gran lived in a chocolate box cottage at the foot of the downs in pretty Sussex and I have great memories but I wanted to live here.
I like the stop signs, Tim Hortons, talk of "flurries" on the radio in October, the ciccadas in the summer, the humidity (yes I know I must be the only one),our house, our neighbourhood, our pool
, Dairy Queen, raccoons with their bandit faces, Wendys, Montanas, lots of trees, stunning and I mean STUNNING beaches. The fog on the highway, the sun glinting on the lakes that I drive past every day.
For me its a feeling.
I like it here. The UK could become the most wonderful place in the world and I would still want to be here.
I loved England, my gran lived in a chocolate box cottage at the foot of the downs in pretty Sussex and I have great memories but I wanted to live here.
I like the stop signs, Tim Hortons, talk of "flurries" on the radio in October, the ciccadas in the summer, the humidity (yes I know I must be the only one),our house, our neighbourhood, our pool
, Dairy Queen, raccoons with their bandit faces, Wendys, Montanas, lots of trees, stunning and I mean STUNNING beaches. The fog on the highway, the sun glinting on the lakes that I drive past every day.For me its a feeling.
lol about your cats response to the bandits in your back yard lol
Oct 27th 2011, 4:27 pm
#49
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Oct 27th 2011, 4:29 pm
#50
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
Yes the calling of Halifax a city makes me smile still.
Oct 27th 2011, 4:31 pm
#51
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
Can I just add that I smile as I am from the southeast of England and used to very large suburban areas. I still prefer Halifax to any of those large sprawling grey ugly places like Croydon though
Oct 27th 2011, 4:36 pm
#52
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Oct 27th 2011, 4:40 pm
#55
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
He asked for "UK", if I hadn't found something quickly there then, yes, next Wales, Scotland, Merseyside and so on. They're not the fashionable and expensive parts of the UK but then he's not looking at Kitsilano either.
Oct 27th 2011, 4:42 pm
#56
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
How about somewhere say in Shere or Godalming? I would say they are as nice as where I am now or how about the New Forest?
Oct 27th 2011, 4:51 pm
#58
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
I'm not sure what you're getting at. The poster asserted that, if he moved to the back of beyond, he could buy a cheap house. I think I've shown that that's true in the UK as it is in Canada. Godalming is not some far-flung windswept nowhere.
Oct 27th 2011, 5:00 pm
#59
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
Thats all.
Oct 27th 2011, 5:34 pm
#60
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Re: NS, whats is the attraction for you?
But checking Montreal's South Shore (City of Longueuil; pop 230,000 and just 20 minutes from Montreal by car or metro) where I lived before moving here in 2005, I see 3 bed semis and 2 bed bungalows for $190k.
My old house in Bristol was sold on last year for £190k. That's ££ not $$
Too right it is.
Here's my old 2 bed, terraced house with on street parking in Bristol. Bottom
Above it is my 4 bedroom, detached, double lot house with drive and garage.
What I sold my house for would have bought 2 of these and left a $100k.
Even with the fall in the exchange rate, what that old house got last year would buy two.
I'm not in a major city, but it's bigger than Bath; Lovely beach 20 minutes away, 2 minutes on foot from a hospital comparable to the Bristol Royal Infirmary and I'm just as close to the centre of the city as I was in Bristol.
True. But that can be evened up with the low or no mortgage.