[BevS97]

We live in the North East. We have moved a few times in 22 years and have been lucky with housing prices going up so recently we were able to downsize and have no mortgage.

Like a previous poster if I sat we have 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms it sounds like a big house. But it’s genuinely a small townhouse with 1 decent and 3 very small bedrooms and too many bathrooms. It was 5 years old and had been empty for 6 months so we got a good deal and paid £200k for it.

While the NE is good for low house prices. It also means that we would struggle to buy anywhere else and I would like to relocate when we retire. I have dreams of a cottage in a pretty village but our budget won’t ever stretch to that.