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For all you laaaaarndarrrners, can anyone recommend somewhere within 30
minutes commute of Soho?

I need:
1 bed apartment to share with the girlfriend
unfurnished, although white goods would be fine
<£1k/month to rent or for an average mortgage.
Not on a huge 3 lane main road
No east end-type shit holes

I wanna know:
How much will I be screwed over on bike insurance?
How likely is a fazer 600 to get pilfered?
Is the above at all possible?

I'm in St Albans right now, and the thameslink trains are an utter shower of
shit, many days you simply can't get on a train as its full, adding another
30 mins / hour to the journey each way

 

I bet you could satisfy all of that from High Wycombe.
Well except that for 1k a month you'd get a reasonable house instead of
a 1 bed hovel.

Straight down the A40 or M40 easy peasy.

 

I bet you could satisfy all of that from High Wycombe.

1) Thats further away than I am now (St Albans)
2) The journey has be to done by train, the lass won't go near a road.

Cheers anyway

 

Simple solution to that.

You take the bike to work, and leave her to find her own way there.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mash

Look, OK, so prostitution pays well. But you have to ask yourself, isn't
there something you can do that's more local and more mainstream?

At least think about it, OK?

BTW, Hitchin's fairly cheap, 35 minutes from King's X by fast train, you
can almost always get a seat and it's not too shabby a town to live in.

Apart from I live three miles away. But nowhere's perfect.

 

Paid for sex, puckka job.

Thats even further away than the other suggestion! Heck, thats further away
than when I was in Luton.

 

Distance is not always the issue - ease of transport is.

Mainline trainstation direct to Marylebone not good enough?

 

For all you laaaaarndarrrners, can anyone recommend somewhere within 30

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Er.. decide whether you want the distance or the time to be important Mash.

I'd focus more on the time then the distance myself. Do it door to door
though, as the tube/bus can take a deceptively long time.

 

Try an estate agent web site - propertyfinder or thisislondon or something
like that.

For £1k, I would hope so - but if you're going to _buy_ as opposed to rent,
why not be more flexible?

You tried going at a different time? 30 minutes earlier/later?

 

So, given that you seem to know all the answers, why have you asked the
fucking question in the first place?

 

He's got the wrong answers it would seem. No concept that some trains are
faster then others.

 

well, I live about 35-40 mins commute by public transport of Soho, can
do it in under 30 mins on the bike, though.

1K around here (the nice bit of Enfield) would get you a 3 bedroom
house on a mortgage - Mine's slightly more than that, but we've got a
spacious 4 bedroom/4 reception/1.5 bath victorian terrace. If you
wanted to rent, you could get your minimum requirement for about 600
quid/month, but if you're capable of getting a mortgage, you'd be
better doing that. Houses are better value than flats around here - a
3 bedroom semi costs ~150-180k, and a 2 bedroom flat will be about the
same.

And it's actually nice here (lots of parks, not too much crime, good
facilities, quite a lot of train stations). Downside is I live here,
and sir.tony's not far away.

I've got a garage at the moment, but in my last house, I had a
multibike policy for an R1150GS, an R30 and a CD200, all ungaraged
(driveway) which cost about 600 quid full comp (I'm mid 30s). Current
lot: Fireblade, CD200, R65LS, kept garaged, TPF&T, around 275 quid.

not at all - bloke around the corner from me keeps his VFR800 on the
street - it's been there for a couple of years.

Yes, if you don't mind living somewhere that's considered "safe but
not very interesting" and can put up with it not really being
"London", and all the parks and stuff.

 

Even up here in the frozen midlands I'm paying close to £600/month on a
3 bedroom house (with 16 years left to run), near London houses are
probably worth almost double what mine is so that that doesn't sound too
outrageous.

Like most people, I'd want want an extra 10K or so a year to work in
London, then it'd balance out.

 

well mine's about 1.1K all in, counting the insurance bit. But that's
less than a quarter of the household's income.

 

I pay over 1K per month for a 4 bed detached up here in Stafford. It's
over 20 years rather than the normal 25 though. A lot of people must pay
over a grand for their mortgage I would have thought.

When I was sharing a flat in London a couple of years ago the rent on that
was about 1150/month

 

Next door [1] has just been let for £2k a month.

It's described as a 4 bed terrace, but really it's only a shoe box
with partition walls.

[1] Owned by a doctor in Bristol.

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£128/pm + £80 endowment life insurance, 3 bed semi with garage in sunny
Sint 'ellens.

Ok, so I have been here for 15 years and only have 7 years mortgage left
and have been overpaying.


By contrast daughter is in digs in Liverpool , 1 bedroom with shared
bathroom/kitchen/lounge (5 students) and hat is costing me £210.
Son is of to Uni next year, so no new bikes for the foreseeable future :=(

 

They have trains in High Wycombe you know.

 

I'll bet you bought the place for a pittance though, didn't you?

I'm hoping the property market has a slump, as I'd quite like to buy a
_really_ cheap terraced place near the university here, purely so I can
rent it out to students, covering my costs plus a small profit. I quite
fancy being a landlord in the style of Alexei Sayle from The Young Ones.