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Feb 2020
10:02am, 12 Feb 2020
30,050 posts
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halfpint
Lizzie if you went to Edin/Glasgow/Stirling there would be stuff for everyone. City stuff and things for crap weather AND plenty hills nearby for bagging.
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Feb 2020
10:03am, 12 Feb 2020
30,051 posts
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halfpint
Or Inverness? You could get a fetchie sticker if you come to Inverness 
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Feb 2020
10:13am, 12 Feb 2020
7,897 posts
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Mazlin
Or at entirely the other end of the country...the IOW?
If I think about having a big house, all I can think of is having to clean all of those rooms, and the cost of the maintenance. If I had a 1.5 million budget I think I’d buy a small house and spend the extra on going on holiday.
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Feb 2020
10:19am, 12 Feb 2020
29,185 posts
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LazyDaisy
Whenever I watch EttC I see (usually) late-middle-aged people saying 'Oh there isn't enough land,' or 'I want a huge garden away from it all' and I think no you don't, I give you five years tops before you're thinking 'A bit less land, and somewhere where we don't have to get in the car for a pint of milk, would be nice.' I know our lovely D2 would beg to differ, but she knows the graft required whereas townies from South London or wherever, tend not to.
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Feb 2020
10:23am, 12 Feb 2020
7,898 posts
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Mazlin
I agree. I’ve got a tiny patio garden which causes me an inordinate amount of stress. I do NOT want any more land!
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Feb 2020
10:34am, 12 Feb 2020
30,052 posts
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halfpint
My ‘land’ consists of a small driveway with a garage, and a strip down the side that accommodates a washing line. I occasionally wish I could sit out in a garden with a cuppa but there’s not many days warm enough to make it worth the extra maintenance.
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Feb 2020
10:34am, 12 Feb 2020
43,320 posts
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McGoohan
We want to retire to Settle (or somewhere similar) in the Yorkshire Dales. It's got beautiful countryside on the doorstep, but also has a supermarket, chemists, etc all in easy walking distance, plus transport links including a couple of train stations close by.
I do not want to be like my in-laws, stuck out in the middle of the countryside and utterly dependent on family driving miles to help them because they chose isolation twenty five years aho.
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Feb 2020
10:39am, 12 Feb 2020
29,186 posts
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LazyDaisy
I think at some point in the next 20 years we'll move permanently to the seaside. We can walk to the shops, the doctor, the bus to Exeter goes past our front doir and the sun-trap back yard gives me enough to potter in. Not yet though
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Feb 2020
10:39am, 12 Feb 2020
7,899 posts
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Mazlin
I misread that as ‘Seattle’...
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Feb 2020
10:49am, 12 Feb 2020
43,322 posts
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McGoohan
Well-placed for coffee and grunge
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