I'm amazed by the property prices and opportunities in Hull. When I left school if people wanted to leave home they had to rent some rubbish. Now they can buy a City centre studio for £50k or 2 bedroomed flat with master suite for less than £100k. http://www.riverside-property.co.uk/site/go/search?sales=true Myleen Klass got carried away saying you need to £2m to buy a garage in London but, comparing the City centre now to anywhere in Hull 45 years ago or the London suburbs today, the difference is amazing.
When I moved to London in 1973 I was renting a room in a terraced house in Parliament Hill which had plenty of TV personalities and film stars living nearby. The house was worth about £50k then. I went to a wedding reception in the grounds of a massive white mansion in South Cave which was valued about the same price.
I've lived in some fantastic places in London: Parliament Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Clapham, Raynes Park, Southfields, Colliers Wood. There's an incredible amount of things to do as well.
That's why programmes like 'Location,Location' are so unfair. I personally know someone living in the HU6 area who is a millionaire ten and times more over. Beautiful 4 bed detached, third of an acre of garden looking out onto open fields. His summerhouse and landscaping cost £100k. He is surrounded by similar imposing detached houses all of which could be bought for less then £350k. A 15 minute walk from City centre. A similar house in London would cost him £10m plus. I met up with some friends of friends in London a while back. Talk about snobby, and they lived in Croydon ( I had been to there houses) They looked down noses at us all all night, 'grim up North, etc' Until I reminded them that the hovel they lived in would fit into my kitchen. I had a garden bigger then there street, more rooms then all of them put together.......and I can afford to live there and have week ends in London. The night ended early.
Much better off with a mansion... http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41536520.html?premiumA=true
I've lived in Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Woodgreen, Wembley, Tooting Bec and Clapham. Crouch End was great, Clapham was good(apart from being burgled twice), the rest of the places are largely ****-holes and none come close to living in Cave, where your neighbours actually talk to you and everyone gets involved in village life.
Thats a beauty. Is that house on Kemp Rd on the left just before the junction with West Leys/Swanland Hill still standing? Its a ****hole, needs knocking down and a new build but the views are fantastic.
If you mean the 70's one, it was demolished and replaced with two four beds. It wasn't a ****hole though, it was fantastic, it just needed a bit of remodelling. A mate of mine was buying it, but it was £1m and pretty much derelict and he decided it was too expensive to refurb and it was only really practical to demolish it. I went to look round it with him, it had some amazing 70's features still in it, it had a water feature with a river that ran through the lounge, it was mental.
My wife would love to live in Hull because people are so friendly but given that most of my clients are in south London as well as her daughter I can't see us moving from London. I had a friend who lived in Balham. I'd walk along a terrible Balham High Street and went down a side street to her house and when you got inside it was total luxury. People tend to prioritise good transport links over area in London or live in small places but central - another friend had a small flat very near Hyde Park but it was great to walk everywhere. I've always took the trouble to live in reasonable areas - when I have owned places I've looked for areas that are near expensive areas and wait for prices to rise within a few years. A friend of mine sold his house in Southfields and bought a similar house in Worcester Park for about half the price.
There must be good money to be made in building and selling houses like this. The land and materials (despite being good quality) would cost nowhere near £3m.
I live in Herne Hill. It's an agreeable place to live, but I have had to pay a stupid amount of money for a modest-sized house. I could probably buy a ****ing amazing, huge house on the outskirts of Hull for the same price, but then I wouldn't have all that London has to offer on my doorstep. New Theatre and Hull Truck just don't cut it for some of us, I'm afraid. There isn't a right and wrong here, nor a good and bad. It's just about making a choice based on individual priorities.
Oh ye the building was fine but in a reet state. Me and a mate went to do a bit of repair work on one of the big un's on Kemp Rd 20 years ago. We were knocking for ages with no reply. So we turns round and there's all these conkers all over the in and out drive. Went straight back to childhood and for 5 minutes we're filling all our pockets with em, fighting over the biggest ones. Then could just feel eyes on us, we turned round and the bloke and his mrs are stood watching us... They were really nice about it and said the kids dont bother with them anymore and to take as many as we wanted.
Agree with you about Crouch End.Lived on Tottenham Lane twice. Frequented The Queens, Railway Tavern and Kings Head.Also enjoyed living in Muswell Hill and Woodgreen. Great locations for getting about in London.
Did you really say all that? i was going to say brilliant but then again what were you meant to say? They started the oneupmanship, I'm sure you would never have started the conversation by making them comparisons.
why is everything i type showing a red squiggly line under it ? Edit. when i post it or reply to thread it doesn't show, only whilst typing it.
