HighTide

It is for sale ......you should find the listing by just googling Minadab Cottage.

Also love "Come Dine With Me"...great entertainment.

HighTide

Thanks Charleygirl..................sounds like you are really enjoying being home. Loving your posts and the food descriptions. Have quite the visuals of all that great grub you have been having since being back home.
Oh for some cheese & onion crisps.

HighTide

Remember them well..........Will have to get used to driving on them again.
They used to say that if you drive on those country lanes in Devon you can drive anywhere.
I remember when I was really young a cow coming towards us in a Mini in a narrow country lane. The cow ran up into the hedge and almost landed on top of us.:

HighTide

Just reread my post and it sounds as though the cow was driving the Mini.....

Fish n Chips 56

hahahhaaaa I hadn't pictured that...

sallysimmons

Some of this depends where you live. There is no one cost for utilities in the US - every state is different. And just my luck, I live in pretty much the most expensive of them all! (In a draughty old house) I know how much my friends and family pay for utilities and to say I would save money is an understatement. But for someone in say, Ohio, living in a new house, the situation could be the complete opposite.

jasper123

I Just got my 6 month renewal car insurance rate from my insurance company, it went up by $22 per month, so its now ($162) per month that I pay for my car insurance, all I have is a small Huandi accent, 2004, and I never claimed, no accidents,
So I called them up and asked why the increase and they said that its cause I turned 65 this year, so I said so what, and they said that the insurance industry feels that as you get older your reflexes are not so sharp and so more risk of having an accident, and the older I get the more the increase will
be, Folks I pay almost $2,000 per year for car insurance over in US, for just regular full coverage, nothing fancy,
I called my Mum yesterday --- my usual weekly call, and I metioned the increase and she said that they dont do that over in UK when you get older,

So this is just another way that we are totaly screwed over here, and her car insurance is so cheap over there compared with what I am paying,

So we can add this to health insurance/health care and all the other ways we are being screwed over here,
Rodney.
PS of course next month when I sell my car I will cancel my insurance but I was Just making a point thats all,

cheers

I didn't know they allowed cows to ride in Minis

HighTide

Only in Devon ya know

cheers

Rod,
By coincidence I also got my renewal for my car and mine went down to $73.75 per month. This is for a 2010 Mazda.

Now for the rest of the story.

I think in Nevada they charge more because people who get tickets have the tickets fixed so they don't go on their records. I think its a racket! You pay less than the normal fine, you don't get it on your record and the city gets the money from the uncontested negotiated fine.

I pay less maybe because the insurance company also has my homeowners insurance so it gets discounted. (why are we so poor with all these discounts)

jasper123

Hi cheers,
My policy even at that high price is discounted cause I also have apartment rental insurance with this company, but that $162 per month is for the car insurance alone,
I think Las Vegas is probably the highest car insurance cost in the nation, the companies told me before the reason for this is that there are so many accidents here, well thats true I know, but why do all the careful drivers have to suffer because of all these drunk drivers on the roads and all these teenagers driving and texting at the same time,
Rodney.
PS in Reno 500 miles down the road in the same state of Nevada my same car and year would be less then half of what I pay here, I suppose cause its a smaller town and fewer cars and so fewer accidents,

cheers

and the price is............£399,950 or $633,050 in real money Not bad. I wonder if they will take a check? I notice they have some private swimming pools on that street. The cheek! Getting like Beverly Hills it is.

Fish n Chips 56

Ive said for a long time that I think we are Insurance poor in this country, not just for healthcare, have a look at everything we insure, from home and medical to car and cancelling your vacation, we live in a fear based economy and it shows.

cheers

My son who lives in LV told me recently that in LV there are 'no rules'

he also told me the expression "I don't care" "I don't care" "I don't care"

=reason for high rates.

jasper123

Well I suppose if you consider that there selling a going concern/business not Just the property then if one can put down a ssignificantdeposit and able to get the mortgage it would not be a bad investment really, and it also takes care of the room/aaccommodationfor the couple that buys it,