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mjtheeagle 23 Feb 19 10.04pm | |
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Me and my gf are looking at moving up to Lancashire in the next few months. We live in Ipswich and we can basically sell our small flat here and buy a nice little house without having to have a mortgage there. We have looked at Blackpool as it has the most houses in our budget. Before anyone calls it a s***hole, i know there are some rough edges and Ipswich is hardly paradise! Positives for us would be being able to get into Manchester, Liverpool, The Lake District within an hour and a half using the trains. London / Glasgow / Edinburgh are only 3 hours train as well. It would be nice to live by the sea and be financially much better off. Manchester airport under 2 hours train away. We can also watch all the Palace away games up North which i assume are easier to get tickets to than the London away games. Any opinions would be great, thanks Edited by mjtheeagle (23 Feb 2019 10.05pm)
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Tom-the-eagle Croydon 23 Feb 19 10.09pm | |
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Originally posted by mjtheeagle
Me and my gf are looking at moving up to Lancashire in the next few months. We live in Ipswich and we can basically sell our small flat here and buy a nice little house without having to have a mortgage there. We have looked at Blackpool as it has the most houses in our budget. Before anyone calls it a s***hole, i know there are some rough edges and Ipswich is hardly paradise! Positives for us would be being able to get into Manchester, Liverpool, The Lake District within an hour and a half using the trains. London / Glasgow / Edinburgh are only 3 hours train as well. It would be nice to live by the sea and be financially much better off. Manchester airport under 2 hours train away. We can also watch all the Palace away games up North which i assume are easier to get tickets to than the London away games. Any opinions would be great, thanks Edited by mjtheeagle (23 Feb 2019 10.05pm)
Yes it's cheap but for a reason. Utter f@cking sh@t hole.
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mjtheeagle 23 Feb 19 10.20pm | |
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Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle
Yes it's cheap but for a reason. Utter f@cking sh@t hole.
What all of it?? People call Ipswich a s***hole but around my area some houses are nearly a million. I imagine it is the same there. The town centre looks the same as any town centre. I'm not a snob so i don't give a toss about posh hipster places. Same with places like Hull. Been there and there was nothing wrong with the place. Put it half an hour commute from London and it would be regarded as the dogs bollocks! Edited by mjtheeagle (23 Feb 2019 10.26pm)
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sitdownstandup 24 Feb 19 9.11am | |
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Dont worry what others think. If you feel somethings right for you go for it. Everyones different and if you ask for peoples opinions youll get hundreds of different responses. People make bad decisions because they follow other peoples feelings and dont trust their own. Get opinions but at the end of the day you have to just do what you feel is right for you. If it all goes awry you can just move again but at least youll know that you were doing something you believed and felt was right rather than doing something you didnt feel comfortable with.
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CPFC1965 Warrington 24 Feb 19 10.15am | |
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Try Lytham St Anne's, about 2 miles South of Blackpool, further north Fleetwood, Poulton let Fylde, Morecambe even.
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mjtheeagle 24 Feb 19 6.19pm | |
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Originally posted by CPFC1965
Try Lytham St Anne's, about 2 miles South of Blackpool, further north Fleetwood, Poulton let Fylde, Morecambe even. Yes and more expensive. Less convenient as well for travel to other places and not as many amenities as being in Blackpool itself. To be honest i find most of the UK pretty similar town wise. There are nice parts and crap parts in all towns so calling a place a dump is a bit stupid. Where we live in Ipswich is lovely, like a mini Hampstead. A few minutes walk down the road is like being in Bucharest. There is just nothing to do here. At least in Blackpool we can have a house, the beach to walk the dog, then if we want to go elsewhere we can hop on the train and be in a number of other places within an hour and a half. As well as that we can have a little house rather than a 1 bed flat plus be about £600 a month better off. Edited by mjtheeagle (24 Feb 2019 6.25pm)
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YT Oxford 24 Feb 19 6.28pm | |
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Originally posted by sitdownstandup
Dont worry what others think. If you feel somethings right for you go for it. Everyones different and if you ask for peoples opinions youll get hundreds of different responses. People make bad decisions because they follow other peoples feelings and dont trust their own. Get opinions but at the end of the day you have to just do what you feel is right for you. If it all goes awry you can just move again but at least youll know that you were doing something you believed and felt was right rather than doing something you didnt feel comfortable with. Ever thought of a second career making self-help recordings? You'd be brilliant!
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YT Oxford 24 Feb 19 6.32pm | |
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Originally posted by mjtheeagle
Yes and more expensive. Less convenient as well for travel to other places and not as many amenities as being in Blackpool itself. To be honest i find most of the UK pretty similar town wise. There are nice parts and crap parts in all towns so calling a place a dump is a bit stupid. Where we live in Ipswich is lovely, like a mini Hampstead. A few minutes walk down the road is like being in Bucharest. There is just nothing to do here. At least in Blackpool we can have a house, the beach to walk the dog, then if we want to go elsewhere we can hop on the train and be in a number of other places within an hour and a half. As well as that we can have a little house rather than a 1 bed flat plus be about £600 a month better off. Edited by mjtheeagle (24 Feb 2019 6.25pm) Methinks you've already made your mind up and are possibly seeking vindication. In life I generally go with 'gut feeling' rather than weighing up options, and it usually works out OK. In fact there's often no way of knowing if an alternative course of action would have been better anyway. I would just go for it.
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mjtheeagle 24 Feb 19 6.36pm | |
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Originally posted by YT
Methinks you've already made your mind up and are possibly seeking vindication. In life I generally go with 'gut feeling' rather than weighing up options, and it usually works out OK. In fact there's often no way of knowing if an alternative course of action would have been better anyway. I would just go for it. Thanks. Yes I think so too.
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nweagle cleveleys 25 Feb 19 10.04am | |
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greetings friend,palace fan all my life,live in cleveleys,just outside blackpool,more quieter than town
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eagleman13 On The Road To Hell & Alicante 25 Feb 19 10.59am | |
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Have you had a look at Kirkham? Junc3 M55 nearer Blackpool than Preston & has Rail links.
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Forest Hillbilly in a hidey-hole 25 Feb 19 11.12am | |
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All places have their good bits and 5hltty bits. Edited by Forest Hillbilly (25 Feb 2019 11.13am)
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