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[tunnie]

Good to know I should be able to retire back to God's Own County when the time comes, then

Although the crime figures for Barnsley don't look too appealing (even Bracknell is significantly better with Barnsley on a par with Basinggrad!)

Just looked at RightMove at Barnsley, wish I had not now. Can get some seriously big houses up there for peanuts compared to here. 

But always a reason for these things, guess jobs and work is very different. Very limiting options for type of work I do that far up Norf 

[Mr Gav]

Moving about two miles, Aaron. It's grim up north, you know 

  Well that helps. Not knowing where you are now n'all. You elusive so and so

Barnsley.

That's why it was 105k 

[STEMO]

Good to know I should be able to retire back to God's Own County when the time comes, then

Although the crime figures for Barnsley don't look too appealing (even Bracknell is significantly better with Barnsley on a par with Basinggrad!)

I know.....I have a hand in most of it. 

[STEMO]

Moving about two miles, Aaron. It's grim up north, you know 

  Well that helps. Not knowing where you are now n'all. You elusive so and so

Barnsley.

That's why it was 105k 

Yes, Gav, could never aspire to the heady heights of Leeds.

Riverside apartments in Liverpool: gazing out across the Mersey, almost a mile wide, from a sturdy old tobacco warehouse apartment.
Riverside apartments in Leeds: gazing across the stream they call a river, right into the living room of the apartment across the 'river' from your cardboard and plastic box. 

[Nick W]

I need to sell up, I could buy four houses up Norf   

But you will be sitting in a muddy wilderness in the dark, wondering how many potatoes translators cost

[STEMO]

I need to sell up, I could buy four houses up Norf   

But you will be sitting in a muddy wilderness in the dark, wondering how many potatoes translators cost

Yeah....it's awful.
What we need up here is a few smart-arsed suvverners to show us the finer things in life. 

[Nick W]

I need to sell up, I could buy four houses up Norf   

But you will be sitting in a muddy wilderness in the dark, wondering how many potatoes translators cost

Yeah....it's awful.
What we need up here is a few smart-arsed suvverners to show us the finer things in life. 

There aren't enough to go around.

[STEMO]

Anyhow, I'm off down t'pub wi me whippet. 

[aaronjb]

Good to know I should be able to retire back to God's Own County when the time comes, then

Although the crime figures for Barnsley don't look too appealing (even Bracknell is significantly better with Barnsley on a par with Basinggrad!)

I know.....I have a hand in most of it. 

 

I looked at the statistics for Northampton too - that's worse than both! 

I'd rather be closer to the coast, anyway.. Brid would be nice, even though it's a bit chavtastic in summer.

Just looked at RightMove at Barnsley, wish I had not now. Can get some seriously big houses up there for peanuts compared to here. 

But always a reason for these things, guess jobs and work is very different. Very limiting options for type of work I do that far up Norf 

You're not wrong - a colleague just put an offer in of £700k on a five bed end-terrace in Old Woking 

Thing is if employers were in any way sensible then you, and I, could easily work from home over the interwebs; I have a bunch of colleagues doing my old job remote (Anglesea, Tenerife, etc) but my new one for some reason has been decreed to be office based. Bah.

[aaronjb]

Anyhow, I'm off down t'pub wi me whippet. 

And t' ferret down troosers?

[STEMO]

Anyhow, I'm off down t'pub wi me whippet. 

And t' ferret down troosers?

Oh aye........niiiiice 

[STEMO]

Oh well, missus will be in soon, best get the possum belly and boiled hog jowls on. 

[Matchless]

Oh well, missus will be in soon, best get the possum belly and boiled hog jowls on. 

Tha's eatin well, t'were sugar butties f'tea when I last lived oop north.

[STEMO]

Got my keys (unofficially) YAY!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Being a wealthy old bastard I imagine you went to the estate agent and slapped the cash on the desk. . "We can't be doin wiv one of them mortgage things, I haven't got to where I am today by wastin my hard-earned brass on interest payments. I'll leave that kind of tomfoolery for them shandy drinking bed-wetting nancy boys  from down south"

Seriously though...... sounds like a good move.

One final thought. If it's a select area you're moving to the residents may ask you to keep the lurid green Astra out of sight. Lowers the tone of the neighbourhood you see.