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[stuartmaxwell]

Originally Posted by Elwood Cobra Kai

All good, but on the flipside, you have to live in Dundee.

Dundee is good, its closer to the central belt, has a better music scene for the kind of stuff I play, better for playing midweek gigs in other cities and making it to work, its not as minky as it used to be and it has world leading research in the 3 universities (ideal for my line of work)

I enjoyed living in Aberdeen for over 6 years too, but its too far away from everything else, full of rotten yuppies and is very close minded (generally speaking)

[Jimmy Lucifer]

Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

I enjoyed living in Aberdeen for over 6 years too, but its too far away from everything else, full of rotten yuppies and is very close minded (generally speaking)

Exactly.

[Alan Cynic]

I like being far away from everything (but then I can't be arsed travelling to gigs etc).

I agree about the closed minds though. (Although, on the upside folk here are less likely to be conned by the latest trends, IMO...unless that's just an OAP thing )

The price of housing here is ridiculous....I feel heart sorry for people trying to get somewhere at a decent price. I think if I was in my 20s I'd settle for a caravan (seriously!).

[Lee Anderson]

yeh, housing here is way too steep. i tried holding off moving to a 'proper family house' for ages but after seeing constant price rises over the years i just thought - fuck it! No point waiting till i can comfortably afford that family home if my young (ever ageing) family can't enjoy it. Purchasing our new house has fair made the wife and i buck up our spending habits... i forgot that bigger homes mean bigger bills, more council tax, loads of maintenance and bloody diy! i'm a wage slave now

Hopefully it's our 2nd and last move. our whole purchasing experience was horrible - never buy through grant smith law practice.

anyway was there not a government initiative announced recently to help key workers get a foot on the ladder?

Although aberdeen is close minded, on the upside it doesn't smell like edinburgh, isn't full of weegies and isn't too tinky... IMO

[Alan Cynic]

We need a new version of the old pre-fabs. Pity we can't order Stewart Milne to build 10 of them for every millionaire henhoose he throws up!

Buy to rent is the way to go

[Brymon]

I feel very lucky with what i got. A 3 bedroom semi, a converted loft, garage and a massive garden. I'll have been in my house 4 years in April. I paid just over 70k for it which at the time was quite good. I stay in Northfield so i think that may have had something to do with the price, but its quite a decent area, with decent folk living round about and all the kids (Trouble) hang out quite a bit from me.

My next door neighbours have just their house up for sale and they are asking for offers over 120k. Im hoping to sell up this year, after i get married so hopefully ill double my money. Not bad for doing fuck all for 4 years!!!

I was actually looking at houses out by Westhills, Kingswells etc and prices for decent houses didn't seem as bad as i woud have thought. Hopefully they stay round about that area.

The funny thing is my youngest bro has just purchased a one bedroom flat above the Crows Nest for i think about 90k which is mental, especially for the size of it. Give me a massive house in the Suburbs any day!!

[stuartmaxwell]

i would never buy a house above a public premises near the red light district in aberdeen, but unfortunately it seems the only way to get on the ladder in aberdeen at a young-ish age

[Brymon]

Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

i would never buy a house above a public premises near the red light district in aberdeen, but unfortunately it seems the only way to get on the ladder in aberdeen at a young-ish age

I disagree with to an extent, my other bro paid 65k roughly for a pretty nice 3 bedroom flat although it's in Middlefield in the depths, it's been successfully broken into once and unsuccessfully broken into about 6 times!!

Im not sure exactly where else he looked but i believe above said bar was one of the cheapest. Least he doesn't have far to go for a pint or a shag!!!

[stuartmaxwell]

my line of thought is buy a not so nice house in a nice area as opposed to a nice house in a shit area, it pays dividends in he long run

still, aberdeen is stupid. i just bought my place for 85k (nice two bedroom about 20 mins from city centre), the same house in abdn would be offers over 110k with it going for about 130k. its criminal