igorgetmeabrain wrote:If you don't mind sleeping in your car, I think you can buy parking spaces in London for around £50k a pop.
Elmlea wrote:My house out here is worth something like £100k.
It's a 3 bed + office house, 2 car garage, pool, steam room, hot tub, large master suite, etc etc in a lovely suburb of west LV with permanent sunshine.
We looked at a large, 3000sqft house near by.  4 big bedrooms, a study, lovely kitchen, pool, gated community, access to private park, all sorts.  £180k.
£100k would buy me what back in the UK, a dingy end terrace in Swansea?  For the cost of the sort of houses I was looking at before we moved, I could buy a 6 bed 4 bath semi-mansion here.  I might just stay.
Dark Soldier wrote:You still in Vegas Elm? I got bored with it after a week, but then I did only visit 'The Strip' as us tourists call it.
Dark Soldier wrote:Sounds quite enjoyable to be fair, we were warned by the reps not to venture anywhere away from the strip for some reason, but in our heads the worst was envisioned. Probably why it got so repetitive so quickly.
Elmlea wrote:Some houses here are now available to buy for less than it cost to build them.  I seriously will buy one as a holiday home when we head back, but seeing the prices here it's impossible not to be fed up with UK property prices. £250k in Scotland will get you a very nice old stone farmhouse, like this. .. .with 4 beds, sitting room, dining room, family room, some outbuildings, and a half acre. The same amount in London puts you in this 1 bedroom box in Eltham, which may be nice, but it's a 1 bedroom box: What do you get in Nevada? This: 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, pool, hot tub, garden, central ac, 3 car garage, vaulted ceilings, granite countertops, a separate formal dining room, 30 seconds from a great private elementary school, and 20 minutes from the Las Vegas strip.  Oh, and your mortgage'll be at 2.9% fixed for 6 years (they'll even do a 100% one), and after buying it, you've saved £22 000 over the 2 homes in the UK because I actually couldn't find one expensive enough to do the comparison. Did I mention the permanent sunshine yet?  Now, I can see the attraction of the stone cottage, but the draw of just buying homes here is pretty huge.
Paul the sparky wrote:Stop looking for an invite to the house warming party you.
Carbon_Altered wrote:A few years back we moved further out, but it was a bit crap, so after saving up a bit we came back in.
Liveinadive wrote:That is the thing with Milton Keynes, it is commuter belt but pretty much sucks in comparison to living in London, or any other major city for that matter. O.K it is cheaper than London and also, in turn cheaper than say Watford or Hemel, but I long to live in a big city. Unfortunately as things go I was brought up here (lovely place for a family btw) and despite trying for a job literally everywhere (including a trial in Rotterdam) I ended up with a job at a company next door to a hill I used to sledge down as a kid, not 3 minutes away from where I grew up.Carbon_Altered wrote:A few years back we moved further out, but it was a bit crap, so after saving up a bit we came back in.
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