Mortgage Rate Rises
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"Mortgage Rate Rises" to "Wildlife tourism"....in 124 easy pages
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Now London. Yes. No desire to go back there!Well the same can be said about London......but here we are!
Oh mortgage rate. Much pain. So high. Yes wow!
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Did you regret going to all those places and experience different cultures or would you been more happier just staying in the grey UK and not gone at all?
Some people forget how privileged we are to travel so freely coming from an 1st world country. Until that ability its taken away e.g. Covid lockdown's, terminal illness.....or not enough money due to rising interest rates
Obviously not and I have seen a lot but all I am saying there is plenty to occupy yourself in the UK which is equally as good. I will use the Goodwood Festival Of Speed as a perfect example. I will spend money to go all weekend that would equal a cheap holiday to Spain but it is the best motoring event in the world that we are blessed with in our own country that doesn't require going abroad. Alton Towers is one of the best theme parks in Europe and they have great hotels for guests too. Yorkshire moors, Peak District, Scotland NC500, Lake District are all beautiful places on our doorstep. Watching a football game at one of the many top football stadiums in the world. The list is endless.
Sure going to see the great barrier reef in Australia or seeing the Saturn V in the Kennedy Space Center was awesome but is it better than some things I have seen in the UK? Not really it is just different.
The whole reasoning why we spent holidays in the UK recently was because of Covid and having our second son as the missus didn't want to fly whilst pregnant. It just makes you realise just how much there is to offer here. The only negative is the weather so you need to be quite spontaneous with when you do things. We had 26 degree heat in the Lake District a couple of years ago and went very last minute over a long weekend.
"Mortgage Rate Rises" to "Wildlife tourism"....in 124 easy pages
Technically it is to do with mortgage rate rises as I am promoting UK based tourism to offset the increased cost of mortgage payments
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I'll send you a picture from Antigua in a week or so and you can compare that with a view of the Mersey Estuary
Actually Formby with its backdrop of deep sand dunes, pine woodlands and resident red squirrels with other wild life will suit. The other side is the Wirral and West Kirby where you can walk on the Dee estuary to the islands.
Yes, forget Antigua, for the money you can keep it, I'll have the Mersey and Dee estuaries. Nice Fish and chips and good beer.
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If you're being impatient in the Caribbean you're doing it wrong!
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True but I do like my food hot!
Antigua and Barbuda | Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Over 97% of the population has access to drinking water, 88% of the population has access to sanitation services and 86 % of households are served by the public water supply system that is managed by the Antigua Public Utilities Authority, with the remainder resorting to cisterns and wells.
However I expect you will be alright in your gated compound with fresh water and proper sanitation.
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Plenty of money about
Nationally, or locally? Prices near me have dropped 1% over the year, compared to +19% the year before it.
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Report said national average
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It's the divide of said money that is the issue.
What source are you using to get local stats?
Anecdotally prices do seem to be dropping around here, but it would be handy to have stats to confirm.
People will **** money up the wall until the literally can't. Its been so good for so long for most people that the idea of preparing for a rainy day doesn't even enter their brains and they will always live up to the edge of their means.
I know far far too many people who have no money but waste huge amounts of it on stuff they don't need.
I know far far too many people who have no money but waste huge amounts of it on stuff they don't need.
Love a good lockdown
Correct me if i'm wrong but this is Rightmove average asking prices, and just for newly added properties in May, right? From what I understand this doesn't say anything about whether or not they're going to sell at those prices, if at all.
I'm no expert in this area but surely all it takes is an increase in the supply of more expensive properties coming to market or a handful of extremely over-optimistic sellers to skew those numbers upwards and potentially give a hugely unrealistic view of what the market's actually doing.
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