Where to live in North Somerset?

[rubbershoes]

Fuck off and stay in London. Or move to Cornwall. We don't want ya.



Edited to add:

Well if its North Somerset - okay..


Stay out of Real Somerset though..

says Mr Wood Green

 

[Hollis]

says Mr Wood Green

<begins rigourous fist shaking>

Rubbish!! We still have the ancestoral seat in Wedmore. I shall return to reclaim my crown.

 

[fifibelle]

As my "local neighbour" Hollis rightly pointed out, depends what you mean by Somerset innit.

The 2 dark coloured areas were traditionally Somerset, moved to Avon and are now seperate unitary authorities. Called "North Somerset" and "Bath and North East Somerset" respectively.

The 5 paler districts (Sedgemoor, West Somerset, South Somerset and Taunton Deane and Mendip) are the Real Somerset.

In that case, it's the REAL Somerset that I want to move to....even though Hollis doesn't want me there

And Hollis, yes I do watch Escape to the Country - am thinking of applying to it so they can hunt for a house for me in the REAL Somerset!

 

[Isambard]

if you are selling in London it'll be OK but don't imagine you'll be able to buy a house for tuppence in old money.

Two up two town, terraced house on a street unlikely to ever feature in a Country Life feature cost around £ 100 K .

 

[Hollis]

In that case, it's the REAL Somerset that I want to move to....even though Hollis doesn't want me there

And Hollis, yes I do watch Escape to the Country - am thinking of applying to it so they can hunt for a house for me in the REAL Somerset!

NOOOO!!!!!



Yer about 10 years to late though..

 

[fifibelle]

NOOOO!!!!!



Yer about 10 years to late though..

Surely its never too late to move out of London????

 

[marty21]

Surely its never too late to move out of London????

am ate of mine moved to bradford on avon last year after 15 years in london, sold his flat near ally pally and bought a much better place down there

i might consider moving out of london back to the ancestral home in the west country when i retire which is still a long way away, i'd have to convince mrs21 who has lived in london since the 70s and would find it very difficult to adjust to living outside london....

 

[rubbershoes]

i got out of london 4 years ago fifi and ended up just south of taunton. Cities are OK but living close to one (ie easy comuting distance) bumps up the price of the houses a lot.

I'm an hour from bristol, 30 mins from exeter but only 15 mins from the centre of urban sophistication that is honiton.

 

[Hollis]

the centre of urban sophistication that is honiton.

just think.. you're probably the first person ever to have used that phrase.

 

[Isambard]

the centre of urban sophistication that is honiton.

but that be in Debbon!

 

[rubbershoes]

buy yourself a Rover 25, flat cap and a tartan blanket and we'll let you in

< opens copy of daily Expresszzzzzz>

 

[fifibelle]

well I've already subscribed to 'Somerset Life'

 

[Isambard]

< opens copy of daily Expresszzzzzz>

My parents used to read the Western Daily Press - the WORST newspaper I have ever had the displeasure to read. I'm kind of glad they read the Times now.

 

[Hollis]

well I've already subscribed to 'Somerset Life'

Crikey!

Can't say I've ever heard of it.. is it some toff rag for foxhunters?

 

[rubbershoes]

well I've already subscribed to 'Somerset Life'

if you're looking for that type of house , oiks like us can't give you any real tips

this lovely home is available for only £1.2 million

and i think you're the only person to ever buy it. everyone else reads it at the dentists

 

[marty21]

My parents used to read the Western Daily Press - the WORST newspaper I have ever had the displeasure to read. I'm kind of glad they read the Times now.

my dad reads that he gets it for the racing pages...

 

[fifibelle]

QUOTE=rubbershoes: if you're looking for that type of house , oiks like us can't give you any real tips


I haven't read a copy yet - am waiting for it to land on me doorstep. Don't think I'll be looking for (i.e. can't afford) 'that' type of house....just wanted some nice pictures of countryside to gaze at whilst facing the horrible commute each day in London.

 

[Isambard]

and I think you're the only person to ever buy it.

Nah, the kids on the estate by mine buy it so they know what posh houses out on the Levels are worth burgling!

I think my mum bought it once for a gardening feature but don't mention it on here cos that'll be street cred right down the lav innit.

 

[fifibelle]

think i'll go and hide under a rock then....

...i don't know the diff. between 'north' and 'real' somerset

...and i've subscribed to some posh magazine that i'll just bin when it arrives

 

[marty21]

tbh, when i was born in bath, it was in somerset, then it went to avon (along with bristol i think) then avon got split up into loads of different places, now bath is in north somerset and there are other somersets as well

find a pre 1974 map, and that is somerset imho

 

[Hollis]

think i'll go and hide under a rock then....

...i don't know the diff. between 'north' and 'real' somerset

...and i've subscribed to some posh magazine that i'll just bin when it arrives

We're here to help.. Somerset County Gazette is where its at.

http://www.homelifeproperty.co.uk/the_west_country/homelife/somerset/

But can we clarify that you're not a foxhunter?

 

[Hollis]

Take out your subscription now!!

http://www.shoppersworld.co.uk/store/product.asp?s=310&d=1616&p=20747&c=24&s1=89&s2=0&s3=0

 

[fifibelle]

Definitely not a fox hunter!!! I even think the mangy foxes in my back garden in Stroud Green are cute (as long as they don't attack my cats).

 

[rubbershoes]

think i'll go and hide under a rock then....

...i don't know the diff. between 'north' and 'real' somerset

...and i've subscribed to some posh magazine that i'll just bin when it arrives

don't worry fifi. we don't bite really.

well hollis does, but he has enough manners to take his teeth out first

<scarpers>

and it really is lovely down here. thats why we're here

 

[Hollis]

I've heard they bite on the Quantocks..

 

[marty21]

i was watching top gear last night and jeremy clarkson was in a west country village, i recognised it as stowe on the wold, edge of the cotswolds, very nice place

i once had a penpal there

 

[butterfly child]

I thought it was "stow"?

I think one of my sisters old schoolfriends lived there for a while, has it got a stream running down the main street?

I'm disappointed that Butchers didn't haul Toby over the coals about his comments on WsM...

We're moving to Weston Sur La Mare, probably after I've graduated..

So we want house prices to rise dramatically in TW15 and drop dramatically in BS23(4?)

 

[marty21]

I thought it was "stow"?

i think you're right

 

[cyberfairy]

says Mr Wood Green

hee, i moved from wood green to deepest darkest north zummerset...but i think quite a few people have...

 

[tobyjug]

I'm disappointed that Butchers didn't haul Toby over the coals about his comments on WsM...

Probably too embarassed to agree with me about the sea front area.