Moving north as a long term plan (cost of living related)
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Moving north if you can afford to stay South isn't really a long term plan.
Staying south with the intention of paying off your mortgage and riding the wave of prosperity then selling up and moving north. Now that's a long term plan.
Staying south with the intention of paying off your mortgage and riding the wave of prosperity then selling up and moving north. Now that's a long term plan.
I moved "North" (Birmingham) from Bath about 2.5 years ago. Bought a house last year, good size 3 bed in a decent area, £120k. I would have been lucky to get anything bigger than a 1 bed flat for that in Bath (unless I wanted to live in Whiteway or Twerton and get stabbed daily 
). Obviously it does depend jobs; I was lucky to get an awesome job up here too 
). Obviously it does depend jobs; I was lucky to get an awesome job up here too 
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we are a lot more friendly up here though
loud and brash is not friendly.
Having done the maths though to match my lifestyle and house living in an equally nice area if London or the commuter belt I would need to more than double my salary and the equivalent job down south doesn't pay anything like that!
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If you're self employed, the north is great. I'm mail order, so it doesn't matter where in the country I am - so I moved to Southport. Lovely area, cheap property and loads of brilliant back roads for a good early morning hooning session.
i very much miss the super rural roads!
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I am not moving north without a job, that would be stupid!
actually i was expecting more people to say dont do it. I see no negatives after looking at it more. I feel i can take a big pay cut (bigger than i thought) and still be better off up there.
time to look for jobs in general and see what i need to do in respect to training courses to get them
I would take a 5k pay cut to get that commute under 30 minutes! Seriously work out your hourly rate bases on the time between leaving your front door and getting back you might well be seriously disappointed!
Not moving up north because of less opportunities is absurd. Some companies are north based to be equidistant between south and scotland. Manchester, birmingham and leeds are used more and more as HQs as london transforms into a finance city etc.
FYI some places like hull may get a bad rep but you can get some very nice fully decorated houses in a nice area 2 or more bedrooms starting from 60k which is insanely cheap
FYI some places like hull may get a bad rep but you can get some very nice fully decorated houses in a nice area 2 or more bedrooms starting from 60k which is insanely cheap
Don't think so, I'm only down the road from Brighton, and that's worth about 175-200, the one Furyus posted would be closer to the 300k level.
It is cheaper up north but that is partly due to the salary difference.
To echo comments from other posters : Go if you can secure a job there first.
But it's all about current and potential opportunity. I live near you and know the surrounding areas quite well, but Cambridge suits my line of work. Currently I'm a VMWare Systems Engineer working for a Managed Services Provider, I also work at home 80% of the time.
Being near Cambridge suits me. Cambridge itself is good for tech jobs, there's also a lot of investment in Peterborough - Associated British Foods opened up a new datacenter there, and I was interviewed for a position at that company.
Plus I'm ~6 miles way from a train station with 45min trains into London. The company I currently work for are based in London so I do have to go down there every so often.
Saying that though, a few years ago I wanted to move to York. I just love that place. But one of the issues was jobs - yes there's Leeds next door but I hear the commuting was dire and still couldn't compete with the level of opportunities I have here. With how things are in this country at the moment I've positioned myself in a "safe" zone for jobs that match my skills.
To echo comments from other posters : Go if you can secure a job there first.
But it's all about current and potential opportunity. I live near you and know the surrounding areas quite well, but Cambridge suits my line of work. Currently I'm a VMWare Systems Engineer working for a Managed Services Provider, I also work at home 80% of the time.
Being near Cambridge suits me. Cambridge itself is good for tech jobs, there's also a lot of investment in Peterborough - Associated British Foods opened up a new datacenter there, and I was interviewed for a position at that company.
Plus I'm ~6 miles way from a train station with 45min trains into London. The company I currently work for are based in London so I do have to go down there every so often.
Saying that though, a few years ago I wanted to move to York. I just love that place. But one of the issues was jobs - yes there's Leeds next door but I hear the commuting was dire and still couldn't compete with the level of opportunities I have here. With how things are in this country at the moment I've positioned myself in a "safe" zone for jobs that match my skills.