I am sick of London now I am a parent - don't want my daughter growing up in a large smelly dirty crime ridden expensive city.

We have friends that moved there about three years ago and they love Guernsey - and I can see why.

The sort of work I do I could easily do from there.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 9:53, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I can see the first part, absolutely, not ever wanting to raise children there is part of why I left London...
but you'd rather your daughter grew up in an inbred bigoted small-minded community that's 50% tax-evading criminals?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 9:57, Reply)

I understand the crime rate is low. It appears to have a slower pace of life, the schools are apparently good, the weather is better, it's clean and the sailing would be amazing.

I think if my wife and I are good parents we can bring my daughter up to identify bigotry and see it for what it is.

Biggest problem would be buying a house on the open market.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:02, Reply)

I thought the biggest problem was actually being allowed to move there
without a well-paid job or being "independently wealthy"? Don't you need permission from the local people to live there, or am I thinking of buying property?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:16, Reply)

You do need a certain level of wealth to move there unless you are a key worker eg Nurse.
Not sure how close we would come to the wealth requirements.

There are two sets of property on the island - open market which is for non locals and closed for those born and raised there. It's a way of protecting locals so they don't get priced out of the property market in the way they have been elsewhere.

Property is expensive - our friends paid £6m for 7 bedroom farmhouse with 8 acres. We wouldn't be spending anywhere that.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:27, Reply)

I'd say it's more an extra tool
to rachet up the level of division and simmering resentment between locals and non-locals even more, personally.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:35, Reply)

A man who is tired of London, is tired of life

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 9:59, Reply)

or wants to live in a clean, pleasant place where one isn't anally raped on a daily basis
for every single cost of living?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:00, Reply)

Financial anal raping is better than an anal raping by six fingered locals

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:02, Reply)

I popped down to the local shop on Saturday afternoon a couple of weeks ago. There was a bloke pissing in the street at 3pm. If my daughter had been older I could easily have had her with me and there is no way I want her to witness things like that.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:04, Reply)

Try living somewhere a little less shit

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:06, Reply)

We live in Queens Park. Not exactly a slum area.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:07, Reply)

I was wondering yesterday as I walked my mates dog
Why is it so much worse for humans to piss in a bush than dogs?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:10, Reply)

Because we can use a toilet?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:11, Reply)

But chemically is human piss 'worse' than dog piss?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:13, Reply)

They both taste about the same if that helps.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:22, Reply)

The bloke I mentioned wasn't pissing in to a bush. Cock out pissing in to the road.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:15, Reply)

Should we really villify this man
or should we embrace his zest for life by joining him in his open air urination?

Probably best to embrace once he's finished though.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:24, Reply)

You'll not avoid that in Guernsey
Every time I've been there St Peterport has been full of drunken crews being cunts, scuffling and pissing everywhere. Usually, I was one of them, but still.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:22, Reply)

I like Cordier Hill and Les Caches.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:31, Reply)