SydneyFC Posted 25 October 2006 Posted 25 October 2006 Well here in Australia, we hear about crazy prices for a small flat in England. But since I'm heavily considering going to the UK next year I'd like to know how much would it be for a decent flat.
Monk Posted 25 October 2006 Posted 25 October 2006 Well here in Australia, we hear about crazy prices for a small flat in England. But since I'm heavily considering going to the UK next year I'd like to know how much would it be for a decent flat. To buy or to rent? And what constitutes as Decent?
Monk Posted 25 October 2006 Posted 25 October 2006 Oh yeah - and where in England? it varies a heck of a lot depending on where you go.
SydneyFC Posted 25 October 2006 Author Posted 25 October 2006 Well probably somewhere around Leicester, and decent means there isn't lumps of poo everywhere and the city dump isn't nearby and stuff like that. To start off, I'll rent.
Monk Posted 25 October 2006 Posted 25 October 2006 I live in London and pay £600 a month for a new apartment furnished, so in leicester, for a half decent place I would have thought about £300, but maybe the guys who live in the City can advise better - and on what areas to avoid like the plague. Also - try www.rightmove.co.uk to browse.
SydneyFC Posted 25 October 2006 Author Posted 25 October 2006 Ok, thanks mate. Any areas I should stay away from?
Monk Posted 25 October 2006 Posted 25 October 2006 Highfields, Evington. Could do with helping out here I am no expert on Leicester. Depends what you want to do there - you could live on the outskirts somewhere like Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Houghton, Oadby etc, which all have more pleasant area. What are you moving here for - other than the obvious?
Dr The Singh Posted 25 October 2006 Posted 25 October 2006 Highfields, Evington. Could do with helping out here I am no expert on Leicester. Depends what you want to do there - you could live on the outskirts somewhere like Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Houghton, Oadby etc, which all have more pleasant area. What are you moving here for - other than the obvious? House on narborough road which I constitute to be one of the better areas in terms of bars, eating and proximity to city centre, usually rents for £400, one of the poohser flats usually the same!! To buy, probably between 120-140k
Jon the Hat Posted 25 October 2006 Posted 25 October 2006 I live in London and pay £600 a month for a new apartment furnished, so in leicester, for a half decent place I would have thought about £300, but maybe the guys who live in the City can advise better - and on what areas to avoid like the plague. Also - try www.rightmove.co.uk to browse. Where the hell in London do you live to pay that little rent?
Ultra Posted 25 October 2006 Posted 25 October 2006 Highfields, Evington. Could do with helping out here I am no expert on Leicester. Evington's one of the posher parts. Not many flats there though..
SydneyFC Posted 26 October 2006 Author Posted 26 October 2006 What would the average U23 wage in the area be?
Dr The Singh Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 What would the average U23 wage in the area be? I'm not sure, it depends on what you do???? I know Leicester isn't one of the highest paying cities in the country!!
Jon the Hat Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 What would the average U23 wage in the area be? To be honest mate, if you are coming from Sydney and not some outer suburb of boredom, go to London. You can get the train up to see City play, and you get to live in a much more fun city!!
Daggers Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 ... go to London. You can get the train up to see City play, and you get to live in a much more fun city!! London is crap. It's dirty, expensive, smelly, rude and over-populated. It's the most over-rated place in the world and everyone that lives there thinks it's the singlemost important place on the map. Everyone that owns property there waits three weeks from buying it until it has gone up in value fivefold to sell it and buy out half of Herefordshire...leaving the local residents homeless and fighting between themselves for scraps from the rubbish bags. London is crap. Fact.
Guest Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 leaving the local residents homeless and fighting between themselves for scraps from the rubbish bags. Not the homeless anymore, ecofriendly middle classes now raid bins for leftovers.
Nationwider Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 London is crap. Fact. ...and its full of Australians - which may defeat the object of getting out of Sydney??
Jon the Hat Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 London is crap. It's dirty, expensive, smelly, rude and over-populated. It's the most over-rated place in the world and everyone that lives there thinks it's the singlemost important place on the map. Everyone that owns property there waits three weeks from buying it until it has gone up in value fivefold to sell it and buy out half of Herefordshire...leaving the local residents homeless and fighting between themselves for scraps from the rubbish bags. London is crap. Fact. Yes, but I'm guessing that as he is coming from Sydney, he won't necessarily be looking for somewhere that's great to raise the kids, he'll be looking to have some fun, preferably without getting in fights with Chavs. London is therefore a much better place to be
Daggers Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 Yes, but I'm guessing that as he is coming from Sydney, he won't necessarily be looking for somewhere that's great to raise the kids, he'll be looking to have some fun, preferably without getting in fights with Chavs. London is therefore a much better place to be Don't buy the hype FCSyd, London has the highest rates of personal crime, suicide, violence, drug related crime, armed robberies, assaults, depression, rudeness, celebrities, traffic pollution, and at least ten other things that I could make up if I wasn't in a hurry. It is also the priciest place for a cup of tea, without milk, or sugar, or tea. Oh yes, train heave on to Euston, do you think you've made the right decision this time? London is for cocaine-fuelled ad-execs and mockney gangsta's. Go live anywhere, anywhere else, just don't go to London.
Jon the Hat Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 Don't buy the hype FCSyd, London has the highest rates of personal crime, suicide, violence, drug related crime, armed robberies, assaults, depression, rudeness, celebrities, traffic pollution, and at least ten other things that I could make up if I wasn't in a hurry. It is also the priciest place for a cup of tea, without milk, or sugar, or tea. Oh yes, train heave on to Euston, do you think you've made the right decision this time? London is for cocaine-fuelled ad-execs and mockney gangsta's. Go live anywhere, anywhere else, just don't go to London. Nah, you wanna live in Clapham me old China. Nice one. Sweet.
Jon the Hat Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 Don't buy the hype FCSyd, London has the highest rates of personal crime, suicide, violence, drug related crime, armed robberies, assaults, depression, rudeness, celebrities, traffic pollution, and at least ten other things that I could make up if I wasn't in a hurry. It is also the priciest place for a cup of tea, without milk, or sugar, or tea. Oh yes, train heave on to Euston, do you think you've made the right decision this time? London is for cocaine-fuelled ad-execs and mockney gangsta's. Go live anywhere, anywhere else, just don't go to London. What's the point in coming across the world to live in Leicester? Seriously?
holly Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 u could buy a 3 bedroom house in huddersfield for the prices of flats down south and majority of the midlands
Jon the Hat Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 u could buy a 3 bedroom house in huddersfield for the prices of flats down south and majority of the midlands Yes, but then if there were loads of highly paid jobs in Huddersfield that wouldn't be the case!
holly Posted 26 October 2006 Posted 26 October 2006 Yes, but then if there were loads of highly paid jobs in Huddersfield that wouldn't be the case! true true but i`m just saying
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