The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: john and helen on April 24, 2013, 02:04:29 pm
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How Far did you move to find your place...
I do love Devon..but I would also look at south west wales, plenty of friends over there... and i do love the landscape
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Got to have much bigger wallet in devon .... or much small smallholding (200K ish more)
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We moved from the south of England to Carmarthenshire. Property is heaper and we have a fantastic view
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We were buying a tiny cottage in Cornwall with roses around the door backing onto a forest in a tiny hamlet but our sale fell through twice so move up to Scotland.....now we want to move again and seen many houses that are ideal but gone, so who knows.....I would happily go to Wales or anywhere!!!!!! but mind you, I actualy do love it here and feel at home, must be something in my blood and routes, mums family were from the midlothian area and I so love some houses around there!!!! :wave:
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Initially 93 miles from Amersham to Nr Worcester but that wasn't our smallholding, that was just to be in the countryside...another 8 miles brought us to our smallholding 7 yrs later. We couldn't have afforded what we have now in the home counties at all.
Next dream is Wales....
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Couldn't afford Exmoor/Somerset/Devon, biz partner wouldn't go to Wales or Scotland, so we came up to Northumberland.
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just been looking at carmarthenshire..some beautiful places ... :thumbsup:
and yes prices down here are expensive, shame really ... one thing that gets right up my nose is..planning permission for holiday lets... if its good enough for holidays..then why can't it be good enough to let someone become part of the area and contribute, and then they moan that locals can't afford housing in their area...yet some very rich banker from london can have a spare place to visit...sorry..rant over
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Come and join us in carmarthenshire..... lovely weather here today :innocent: :raining: :raining: ... and normally fab views (but not today!!!) we moved from Wilts and Oxfordshire.... well I did ... OH working in Oxforshire today where sun is shining and everything growing apparently :rant:
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we moved from the SE (St Albans) to NW Devon. We principally chose the SW over other areas as we wanted to be rural, but close to centres of population for business purposes, we deal in 2nd hand books and collectables and need to be near areas where we can buy stock. We do love it here, but are often shocked at how sub urban everyone is, even people who've lived here all their lives. I did want to move to Wales as our money would've bought a whole lot more there, but mrs M wasn't so keen (despite her mum coming from wales).
Now wifey is saying we should've moved to Wales...
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25 miles 8)
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We moved 550 miles from Hertfordshire to Aberdeenshire....I don't think OH plans to move again!
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About 70 miles ..... to Mid Wales.
We think it is beautiful here and wouldn't move to many other locations. My nan's surname was Pugh so you can guess where she came from and this does feel like "home".
Love Exmoor though.
And we only get a little bit of rain here in Wales :innocent: :eyelashes: ;D
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We are in the Peak District, in Derbyshire. Everything is expensive housewise, landed or not. Our land is separate from the house, which is a cheaper option.....athough land here reaches ridiculous prices even for a tiny paddock.
We did look at selling up everthing, and moving further North. Lancashire, Northumberland, Scottish Borders. But looking at it logically, much as I would love to do this - in a few years its unlikely we will want to be slogging all hours outdoors, and having had a few health issues, its made us realise we needed to downsize - not take on more work in the form of a farmhouse in need of modernisation (which is all we could probably afford)> Been there and done it, and the cost and sheer hard work makes you think twice about repeating it.
So, for the time being, we have kept the land, and bought a tiny coalminers cottage, which fingers crossed should be completed on very soon.
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Oh yes, 320 odd miles so far :innocent:
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150 miles or so South - to be nearer my kids and dog shows and tests and trials for HPRs. Unfortunately house prices were similar but for much less land so I only have an acre. I'd happily move to a smaller house with more land if I could sell this place. I like my home but I don't love it like I have all my previous houses.
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Moved 200 miles to come back home to Yorkshire. :thumbsup:
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Moved 100 miles north and back to the same area as my OH lived when we first met, so already knew lots of people :thumbsup:
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Didn't move just bought the field behind me and now the one beside my house, saved a lot of hassle only thing against it was that it made the land more expensive as it became amenity land not quite sure why, something to do with the value that it added to the house I think.
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Just under 50 miles south, as OH continues to work full-time in the city to afford it all. We could have gone further for more smallholding and tried to both give up our careers, but decided to stay in the "real" world for one of us. OH also loves his job, so wasn't prepared to give it all up and move to Shetland.
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We came to mid Wales from Birmingham where I was working at the time (I'm from London originally), and OH was in Banbury.
Had originally been looking in Shropshire but couldn't afford it, looked in Carmarthenshire but the commute was too bad and eventually ended up just south of Newtown, Powys. Train from local village goes direct to Birmingham!!
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Came from London to Llanarth in west wales in 1977 , have been in and around the area since . Had my own land for 10 years now , about 12 miles from the place we moved to in '77 .
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about 900 km from Cambridge to La Creuse in France. property and land was so cheap that we have not worked since the move :innocent: . It takes me about just a few hours to get a cheap flight from Limoges to Stansted and see family so distance is not a problem.
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Just over 400 miles from Carmarthenshire to where we are now in Kilbarchan, Scotland & just about to do the return journey with more than twice the livestock we originally had, back to our (trashed! those who know, know what I mean :furious: ) house & garden :tired:
Luckily, we have some fab friends down there who are "fostering" half of our KKs - just need to get tomorrow over with :'(
:love: :pig: :love:
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Wow!!! great response :excited:
i spoke tonight with some friends we have made through kayak fishing..that is where we are very lucky... we have made friends all over the place :thumbsup:
i told the welsh lads we were thinking about moving over there ..and the offers of plasterer , painters electricians etc etc came flooding in :excited:
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Just over 400 miles from Carmarthenshire to where we are now in Kilbarchan, Scotland & just about to do the return journey with more than twice the livestock we originally had, back to our (trashed! those who know, know what I mean :furious: ) house & garden :tired:
Luckily, we have some fab friends down there who are "fostering" half of our KKs - just need to get tomorrow over with :'(
:love: :pig: :love:
don't sound good.. but i hope everything turns out well... wishing you all the best
john
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We moved from Switzerland to the UK but less distance than some of you who've gone from end of the UK to the other. Actually we were led more by the usual house hunting needs - to be commuting distance to London for husband. We were certainly not looking for land. That just happened - which is why accidental smallholding is so appropriate.
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ditto Hester - accidental here too :excited:
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Moved about 130 miles from Edinburgh to Strathnairn however my ancestors moved from Nairn to Edinburgh in 1801 so has been more like moving back home!
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well it looks like we will be having a serious look at carmarthenshire , ile be surprised if i can get what i would like down here in devon..but as they say..home is where you lay your hat
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In the end, the final move to where we will be living Ad Infinitum and a have a wee drop o land to play with.....Hmmmmnnnn 700yds? No, perhaps nearer 900yds :roflanim:
Rgds
Sskye
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As above - we moved 900 km and the OH has just left Stansted airport and I will set off to meet her in 75 mintes. Distance has less sifnnificance when the travel time is reasonable though the drive is a bit of a pain.
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Hi From Shropshire :wave:
We moved 30 miles to Malvern, while we looked for a smallholding and then a further 45ish to Craven Arms.
Wouldn't go back :excited:
SV.
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South Yorks to Saxony.....40 miles short of Poland. Prices here are ridiculously cheap esp if you want to do a bit of work on the house. Lots of properties have big gardens but not really fields and fields
Our house (8/9 beds) + about half an acre of grassland with fruit trees was 30 thousand euros......A friend bought at auction for nearer 20 and has two biggish fields and two massive barns as well as the huge house and a separate flat that they live in.
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420 miles from hampshire to aberdeenshire, and hoping to move further north.
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Moved 200 miles to come back home to Yorkshire. :thumbsup:
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I missed Yorkshire but decided I was too Scandinavian to move home so I flitted from Denmark 1000 km. north to an area in Sweden that reminds me of Yorkshire
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Wow, further north than Aberdeen, Shetland?
We only moved 30 minutes further out into Essex due to still needing to be able to commute to work.
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As above - we moved 900 km and the OH has just left Stansted airport and I will set off to meet her in 75 mintes. Distance has less sifnnificance when the travel time is reasonable though the drive is a bit of a pain.
MAKs Been sampling the local brew again ??? ?
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We moved one mile out of the village to where our house & land are now and still live within 3 - 5 miles of where we both grew up so quite lucky i guess. We managed to do all our house buying & selling in the boom years of the eighties & nineties and made goodprofits. We have an endowment reach fruition at the end of May so thats another good chunk of ye olde mortgage. Wouldn't like to try it now.
Mandy :pig:
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Hi
I agree with you Mandy.
It was hard enough buying a house 30 years ago, but not as hard as it is at present. I know there are lots of houses for sale but raising the money is so much harder than it was.
I don't envy my children trying to get on the property ladder.
SV
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From North Staffordshire to North Wales. From the home of the oatcake to the home of Lobscowse.