I feel so frustrated with life!!

[MarkDavis]

Have spent the last 6 months looking for a house, without luck - a couple of deals have fallen through for a couple of lovely properties for various reasons, and I don't want to just buy just anything for the sake of it. Just doesn't seem to be much out there at the moment (well, certainly nothing particularly interesting).

Work is just tedious.

Nottingham just seems a bit dull as a place. Not a patch on the vibrancy of London. Don't feel I can move as I need the work history for a house purchase. And don't get me started on the women - the vast majority of the women in Notts seem like backward Wynetta Slob types.

Need to find something - a project, a new challenge...anything - to give me more of a buzz (and don't say drugs) as I feel bored and stale at the moment!

 

[MarkDavis]

Take to the stage, darling, you'll be a star!

Haha! That's a good idea, but I'm don't think I'm enough of the exhibitionist type!

I would love to do a tour of where you live though along the Australian coast and the South Seas islands (not that I can justify the mega cost that that would involve at the moment!). Would be fabulous experience.

Just to make you feel better, I get the keys to my newly purchased 3 bed house on thursday

If its a new build though, it won't bother me

 

[MarkDavis]

Why are you buying a house, if you are in a job you dislike, in a city you dislike, when you have dreams of travelling?

Well, I took a year out to go travelling about 8 years ago and whilst it was a fabulous experience - an absolutely hoot - I probably blew around £20k, so its trying be sensible and lay some foundations first.

With a house, I can always rent it out which will cover the mortgage. That way, if I should go travelling again, I'll know the foundations have been laid back in the UK and I'll feel less of a waster (since I'll be burning money instead of earning money)

Pretty sensible if I may say so myself

 

[MarkDavis]

Why are you buying a house, if you are in a job you dislike, in a city you dislike, when you have dreams of travelling?

I'm wondering about that too

But I figure, if I move now, I need another couple of years of solid employment history behind me for mortgage application (I'm assuming the bank/building want at least a couple of years of stable employment?)

Why are you looking in Nottingham more like :/

London is mega, mega priced. Basically I can't afford London. A grim studio flat is £180k, a 1930s 3 bed in a reasonabel part of West London is about £450k. My old 2 bed flat in Bristol went on the market recently for £295k....

Basically, houses in Notts are affordable. You can get a really nice period 3 bed with bags of character and good space for around £160-£170k.

Where are you looking in Nottingham ?

Started out in WB/Gamston but everything's mega expensive. A nice, spacious 2 bed terrace is around £175k, so have switched into looking in Sherwood (where my 2 deals fell through) towards the Mapperley Park side where possible (as its nicer).

 

[MarkDavis]

Oh I forgot to say, any 'life advice', greatly appreciated!