Ever think of selling up and buying a mansion in another state/city with what you'd get?
Many houses around L.A are over a million dollars. You'll get a very nice house in Texas for a million.
'Sunny' Bournemouth is just about the most expensive place in the UK outside of London. In fact Sandbanks, is just down the road from me and is supposed to be the 4th most expensive place to live in the world!
I'm very happy here, so it's unlikely I would sell, but I do love to travel around the world (not at the moment though).
Ever watched those shows were a British family pack up and move to Australia? Most can’t deal with the cultural change and home sickness and return.
shareWe holidayed there last August, starting in Brisbane and finishing in Sydney, stopping at a few places in between. We absolutely loved every minute and I can see the attraction of people wanting to retire there. We'll definitely return and explore a different part.
shareNorth Yorkshire is mostly expensive too, especially York and out in the villages and areas around Harrogate and Ripon (and the pretty parts of the North York Moors, Wolds etc).
I live in Scotland now, had to really as couldn't afford what we wanted (larger house but more importantly a bigger garden) back where we used to live.
What we have now would have easily cost twice as much back there and in more expensive areas down south, probably closer to a £million!
It’s crazy!
Now that’s just housing, including council tax etc.
Bills are another matter; in Scotland water is included in the council tax and if you manage to have solar power and heating from a log burner, no electricity bills!
In the city, transport is a lot easier and walking and cycling was used a lot more, but now in the country we have to rely on vehicles which is a thumbs down.
Food costs etc can be as high or as low as you want; cost of living varies greatly through the U.K. and I do think there is a big north/south generalised divide. Less choice out of the city means being more frugal too, thus reducing your spend.
Cities and urban sprawl amenities also encourage you to spend more socialising, on entertainments and eating out; none of that really available now.
I really liked Scotland when I visited in 2007. I was there for about 10 days. Edinburgh, Loch Ness, Inverness, Isle of Skye.
I was living in Ireland so I found it cheaper.
You did quite a tour lol
Lots of lovely places to see.
Do you mean you found Scotland cheaper than Ireland, or Ireland was cheap - or it was cheaper to get to Scotland from Ireland?
Not too expensive. That's one of the advantages of living in the northern Midwest. Winters are a bitch, but cost of living isn't so bad.
shareMany houses around L.A are over a million dollars. You'll get a very nice house in Texas for a million.
No, Ohio is reasonable. It's possible to get a very nice house between $300k - $400k where I live.
sharei'm in a fairly low cost city, though we've seen housing inflation like most places in canada. but google tells me that the average house price here was less than half the canadian national average.
i earned a nice but unspectacular mid-level finance manager salary for 12 years or so, and i was able to save about 70% of my take-home pay on average.
I forget, are you in Winnipeg?
sharei am indeed in winnipeg.
lots of people seem to get sniffy about winnipeg, like it's some form of ungodly frozen shithole that imposes endless suffering on all condemned to scratch out an existence here.
but i've had a perfectly fine time and i managed to sort of semi-retire at 47, & therefore have zero complaints.
except for the summers, which are endlessly long and miserably hot.
everything associated with winnipeg summers can go get fucked in the ass, please and thanks. pardon my language.
but otherwise it's great.
I like Winnipeg, so no snarky comments from me. We embrace our winters in Edmonton. We are the most northern major city in Canada. :)
I live in Australia, we are one of the most expensive countries in the world from what I have read and been told.
shareI grew up in what is now Silicon Valley, it was a slow-boil economic nightmare for me. My parents sold up and moved to a state I hate during a boom but I'll never see a dime of that, I was priced out of apartments, businesses I worked for moved away because of the cost of real estate and left me unemployed, but I stupidly held on because everyone I was close to was there. I spent my last years there living in a 250' studio, before moving away.
I now live in a part of the state that's expensive compared to say, rural Minnesota, but great compared to California's major urban areas, and with that an a career change I've been able to rebuild my personal finances. But I'll have to move further when I retire, unless real estate markets completely change in the next ten years.
I LIVE IN CALIFORNIA...ITS SOMEWHAT EXPENSIVE,BUT WORTH IT...NOTHING LIKE THAT ONE NIGHT I SPENT IN PARIS THOUGH...COST ME A FORTUNE...BUYING HERPES MEDICINE😣
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