Average price of London home to reach £400K

[SallyAnne]

I think you have been extremely lucky on both sides. It's very rare to get a contract for that money and also to find a house at that price in Newcastle. Once I was going for a contract in Newcastle and from a first look prices didn't look that different. The price for a studio in a nice area was about 7-800 a month as far as I remember. Perhaps, yes, drinks are much cheaper.

I'm lucky on the gig front I guess - its government, so it pays well.
but I nearly had 2 others before I chose this one (in Durham - one for the council and another for the water board I think) and they both paid about £500 like.

You're definately wrong about the renting situation though - yes there are a couple of areas which are stupidly expensive (Jesmond and Gosforth) and thats where business people who dont know the area tend to rent, but they aren't the only nice places - you can get something in many other areas for about £500.

If you ever work up here again, giz a shout and I'll tell you where to look!

[pickle]

[QUOTE=SallyAnne]No!!
I can get a treble vodka and mixer for £1.25 at my local.
[QUOTE]

And I live in central London just to avoid the chav, binge drinking, provincial mingers that tend to pollute the hinterland. But each to their own eh?

[sasguru]

[QUOTE=pickle][QUOTE=SallyAnne]No!!
I can get a treble vodka and mixer for £1.25 at my local.

And I live in central London just to avoid the chav, binge drinking, provincial mingers that tend to pollute the hinterland. But each to their own eh?

[Lucifer Box]

The water tastes like sh1t, it must be all those pollutants. Look what it's done to SAS

It's all the oestrogen in it.

Anyway, after seeing this article I've decided to stay put in London for five years and then I can sell up and buy a small county somewhere oop north.

[SallyAnne]

[QUOTE=pickle][QUOTE=SallyAnne]No!!
I can get a treble vodka and mixer for £1.25 at my local.

And I live in central London just to avoid the chav, binge drinking, provincial mingers that tend to pollute the hinterland. But each to their own eh?

You got me there like - all I can find to say is

[sasguru]

It's all the oestrogen in it.

Anyway, after seeing this article I've decided to stay put in London for five years and then I can sell up and buy a small county somewhere oop north.

Would you have full rights over the natives? So all women would have to lose their virginity to Your Lordship at 16. You could reward them with a slice of home-made bread afterwards.
The men would have to doff their caps and pulll their forelocks.
Got to put these Northerners in their place, I say ...

[pickle]

Would you have full rights over the natives? So all women would have to lose their virginity to Your Lordship at 16. .

Feck me, you haven't been up there for a while have you. 16 year old virgins?

[SallyAnne]

Would you have full rights over the natives? So all women would have to lose their virginity to Your Lordship at 16. You could reward them with a slice of home-made bread afterwards.
The men would have to doff their caps and pulll their forelocks.
Got to put these Northerners in their place, I say ...

Shagging a lord AND getting fresh bread - they wont know they're born!

You might struggle getting them to wait until they're 16 like

[Lucifer Box]

Shagging a lord AND getting fresh bread - they wont know they're born!

You might struggle getting them to wait until they're 16 like

I can understand that. I bake an irresistable loaf of bread.

[SallyAnne]

I can understand that. I bake an irresistable loaf of bread.

Do you cheat and empty your sachet into a flashy chrome device?
Or do you do it the old fashioned way, letting it rise in front of the fire with a tea towel over it?