Reply to: Life after contracting

[jamesbrown]

Just got lucky really with house prices but around here not much is moving.

Im also planning on buying a Toyota Hilux and selling my car.

Its all planned but you know plans of mice and men.

For £600k, you can get a nice flat above a kebab shop in Brum.

[Gibbon]

Burnley is quite posh nowadays, compared to Darwen

FTFY

[Gibbon]

You mean Preston...

Loads of new housing going up between Preston -> Lytham (which is actually nice).

[SueEllen]

Burnley is quite posh nowadays, so I hear

You mean Preston...

[ladymuck]

£600k are you selling Hull?

Burnley is quite posh nowadays, so I hear

[woohoo]

£600k are you selling Hull?

Just got lucky really with house prices but around here not much is moving.

Im also planning on buying a Toyota Hilux and selling my car.

Its all planned but you know plans of mice and men.

[Zigenare]

£600k are you selling Hull?

Hull isn't in the "North West" - unless you're setting off from Paris.

[vetran]

Was planning on semi-retiring and moving to the highlands, found the perfect area. I've put the house up for sale unfortunately just as things turned down in the economy and people arent spending their Covid money.

If any of you down south lot with a bit of spare cash, want to move to the beautiful north west and have 600k to spare let me know.

Anyway, until then dreams of retiring are on hold.

£600k are you selling Hull?

[woohoo]

Was planning on semi-retiring and moving to the highlands, found the perfect area. I've put the house up for sale unfortunately just as things turned down in the economy and people arent spending their Covid money.

If any of you down south lot with a bit of spare cash, want to move to the beautiful north west and have 600k to spare let me know.

Anyway, until then dreams of retiring are on hold.

[The Green View]

As I approach my longest stint on the bench in, what - 18 years or so, this is something I need to give some serious thought.

I'm seriously thinking about doing something quite menial like buying a pickup and pulling in some landscaping work, Relatively minimal initial outlay and bags of work to be had judging by all the posts on local FB pages; obviously not anywhere near the renumeration of an IT gig but with my mortgage almost paid up, I could certainly do this so long as my body holds together....

...and I thnik it would make me a lot happier.

[Paddy]

Maybe go and join the French foreign Legion.
Or go live in a commune in Suffolk, like this one:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-64153693

Certainly there is material to make a movie, nobody leaves alive...

[ladymuck]

Or go live in a commune in Suffolk, like this one:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-64153693

Sounds a bit 'culty'

[Zigenare]

I'm taking a Walk Leader qualification this year and expect this to keep me in ciggies and beer for the foreseeable future.

I hope to be in better shape than I have been in the past (and that includes the ciggies and beer).

Planning on installing a new set of lungs?

[TheDude]

I am thinking if buying a private island when it is all over.

Probably Canvey or Sheppey

[GJABS]

Maybe go and join the French foreign Legion.
Or go live in a commune in Suffolk, like this one:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-64153693

A group of 60 people who live together in a large house say they are thriving during the cost-of-living crisis.

The Old Hall community share a former friary in East Bergholt, Suffolk, where they live off 65 acres (26 hectares) of land.

They are working towards self-sufficiency in energy and food, with group meals prepared on a rota system.

The manor house has 130 rooms, shared between 44 adults and 15 children plus volunteers and guests.