I'm not going to be moving quite yet but we have a 4 bedroom semi with a garage on a private estate worth around £210,000, been in this house for nearly 10 yrs so time to move to something bigger & detached with a double garage in the near future.

My wife has her office based at home & travels into London or milton keynes once or twice a week for meetings & i am a BT engineer so it doesn't really matter where we move as long as its no more than 2hrs or so from London by train, she can work from home & i just transfer to a new patch.

The thing is where we live Kent is very expensive, been looking at houses upto £300,000 max & where we live you could just about get a 4 bed with double garage but it will be a new build on an estate with a poxy little garden. If you want rural or a bit of ground round you for £300,000 your only get a 2 bed bungalow thats falling down or maybe something that needs a lot of work or another semi detached.

Went through several areas last night on line looking at houses & it seems to me that the cheapest place within 2 hrs by train to London to live is Norfolk, for £250 - £300,000 you can get some very nice 4 bed properties rural with nice big gardens that aren't overlooked by any neighbours. I can't believe what you can get for your money in that area. The area's that interest me more are around Downham market,Swaffham,Wisbech. Why are they so cheap & their seems to be no shortage of nice rural /village houses set in good grounds,you would never buy anything like that where we are for £300,000.


Simon.

 

Wisbech, full of pikeys, that's why

 

Some of the remote areas are VERY remote.

For train and transport, you really need to be close to Norwich to benefit.

 

Hi Simon,
That part of the county is so cheap, because it is pretty much cut off from the rest of the world with connections to anywhere down south.

If you want a 2 hour commute to London, you'll have to be near Norwich or Diss (South Norfolk). Also One Railways are not the most reliable .

 

Your best bet is to get a helicopter or plane like Mike has!

 

Norfolk has the best all male swinging scene in the country.

its personally my scene as im so if you are interested at all you should give this number a call: 07871 602105, ask for Chesney (thats my stage name)

 

I knew it as soon as I first saw you - very brave coming out though

 

I live in doncaster and is only an hour and 40 minutes to london on train and is a major station.

We have a 5 bedroom bungalow and half acrce back garden and it is valued at 345, parking for 16 cars etc so you can get a lot for your money round here with excellent links, plus a brand new international airport has recently opened.

Just a thought.

 

Oh, I think a rib just pierced through my side

 

pmsl, KNEW you'd get on the fuck me edit buttom as soon as I typed that reply tosser!


But its true... i am

 

 

there is nothing wrong with norfolk its a lovely place to live

 

whoever gave you those mod powers is gona get clarted mike

 

I swear on my daughter's life, that the last one wasn't me . You obviously have another "admirer" .

 

your all a bunch of mod ***** then

maybe it was graceland and wishful thinking

 

Cambridge is a good place to consider, excellent transport links but not quite Norfolk!

 

Yes, but a little more pricey anywhere near the city !

 

All the large properties set in say 3/4 of an acre or so plot under 300k are in the sticks, are places near & around Downham Market a bit dodgy because that seems to be where its cheaper, where's the nearest train st to there for London ?

Simon.

 

Thetford.

 

you can get the train to london from downham

it's a bit of a chav town though, but where isn't these days?
swaffham, like most places these days, had the railway taken out years ago.

generally, it's a nice area to live. there's not much to do, but if you've got a nice property and a car you'll be alright. not far to the coast. the flatness and remoteness can be either a good thing or a bad.

 

Dont Bother with Thetford. It's full of either

1. Inbreds + Pikeys
2. Bent people

or

3. Imports.

Why my missus lives there i really don't know

Smit.

 

thetford that place is nasty. london overspill chav city

 

Missus lives in a new estate which is quite out of the way...

Other than that i wouldn't have a house there if it was FOC

Smit.

 

Blimey some of you make it sound like if i move there i'm going to expect to get my cossie knicked & house broken into by the local chav's. Is it really that bad ? I was under the impression that it was a nice rural country bumpkin area.

Simon.

 

Are the chav's there like that pikey bloke who won the lottery 'Mikey the pikey' 'The king of bling' i hope not Maybe the houses that i'm looking at are such a bargain as there next to that pikey blokes banger racing circuit in his back garden , anyone know where he lives so i can avoid looking there

Simon.

 

Currently doing 9 months at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

Thetford is a shit house. Even the dogs go round in groups.

 

Hey dont listen to them, Norwich is a nice place.

When I drive through places like Leicester and Birmingham I realise how lucky we are to be in Norwich.

Its a top place just a bit far to get to anywhere, if you can cope with that then it would be a nice place to be

Beccy.

 

norwich is nice, and there are loads of nice places in that area. i would rather live back there than where i do now, but there's no jobs for me.

as for crime - heard of tony martin

 

Thetford is a shit hole, i live 2 miles from it in the middle of the forest, however there are some fantastic villages around me that are still close enough for trains etc, i can be at redbridge train station in 1hr worst case, you will get alot for your money in Thetford but as has been said it's full of Eastern Europeans.

Look at some surrounding villages though and you will be surpised, I.E Culford, Icklingham, even the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds


Cheers Mike