depends how fussy you are about where you live
eg if i didn't have my flat and i moved back up north, i couldn't afford to live where my dad does. but i could move north of manchester and have something really nice.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:23, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

But you wouldn't earn what you currently earn if you lived north of Mnachester

(Bazongaloid, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:27, Reply)

of course not
this is why i couldn't afford to live where my dad does. but i could bloo bloo about that, or i could suck it up and buy a really nice house on the other side of manchester.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:30, Reply)

Buy a really nice house with your much lower wages?

(Bazongaloid, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:32, Reply)

yep
using me as the specific example, you can get a beautiful 2 bed for about £80k where my cousins live in yorkshire. i could afford that on manchester wages, and i could commute to manchester from there.

£80k wouldn't get me a cardboard box where my dad is. this is my point. either bloo bloo about not being able to afford cheshire, or suck it up and rent in cheshire or buy elsewhere.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:34, Reply)

I'm pretty sure your wages in Manchester would stretch to more than an 80K mortgage.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:36, Reply)

How many high powered solicitor firms are there out in the middle of nowhere in Yorkshre where you can buy these 80K cottages?

(Bazongaloid, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:38, Reply)

It'll be the middle of nowhere petrol stations in Yorkshire
that'll be her biggest problem when she comes to refuel her 25mpg car when she travels to her high powered firm in Manchester.
( Kroney, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:40, Reply)

there are plenty in manchester
which is about 45 mins away

this is why i said "commute to manchester"
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Aug 2013, 12:42, Reply)