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Post by Cousin Lou on Aug 12, 2019 13:21:20 GMT
Great. Thanks. They haven't got back to me after last week's phone conversation (where I said I was definitely interested). That could mean they've sold - which is very doubtful - or they're just taking their time. Be happy. Investing in an appartment that close to the pub is asking for trouble. Just imagine Moresby RUFC wins a game! Before you know it there'll be swaths of pissheads smoking and chanting 'All or Nothing' in front of your house while pissing in your mailbox.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2019 16:28:54 GMT
Part of me wants to buy a little farmhouse in the middle of a field and spend the rest of my days looking at the rain out the window, eating biscuits or writing shit here. But then the idea of getting a flat in a big city and immersing myself in a hectic life for a few years sort of appeals too. Whether than means that I don't know myself well, or just that - like most people - I'm a complicated fella, I don't know. I am going through that now. I never thought I'd say or write this, but I'm fed up with the SF Bay Area. It's getting way too expensive to live here and I want to go somewhere else. I have the place in Eugene, OR, but I don't know if I want to be there now. I'm thinking of selling it. I got it because it's not the usual hot temperature that most retirees transplant to - I hate extreme heats, and it's a college town so I figure all the young folks lend a sense of vibrancy that will keep me going. I tend to be an introvert and I'm afraid of going to some place too quiet will turn me into a hermit, which I have a tendency to do if left to my own accord. The plan is to substitute teach jr. high or high school, but I really just want to have a job to help put off using my retirement money and give me something to do. I don't care if it's working in a bookstore part-time or stocking shelves in a supermarket or some kind of store. Something to get me out of the house on a regular basis. I also have an old friend in Eugene, who I could visit with, but he's got his own life - wife, daughters who are getting married and will have grandkids, so I don't really know if I'd see him any more than I would now, except for his sense of loyalty. When I was up there a couple times, his wife said she's never seen her husband bond with another guy so much, but we've been friends so long, it's just natural for us. But you know how that is. Hey, maybe we could move in together like Felix and Oscar?
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Post by countmachuki on Aug 12, 2019 16:33:37 GMT
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Post by bungo the mungo on Aug 12, 2019 16:34:40 GMT
When I was up there a couple times, his wife said she's never seen her husband bond with another guy so much, but we've been friends so long, it's just natural for us. But you know how that is. oh ffs!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2019 16:39:46 GMT
All the best John. I have no advice..at least none that you can actually use! But I hope it all works out well soon.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2019 16:52:50 GMT
When I was up there a couple times, his wife said she's never seen her husband bond with another guy so much, but we've been friends so long, it's just natural for us. But you know how that is. oh ffs! Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Aug 12, 2019 17:56:53 GMT
All the best John. I have no advice..at least none that you can actually use! But I hope it all works out well soon. There are at least three Johns posting on this thread but I'll arrogantly assume that was meant for me and say thanks G!
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Aug 13, 2019 10:02:55 GMT
Part of me wants to buy a little farmhouse in the middle of a field and spend the rest of my days looking at the rain out the window, eating biscuits or writing shit here. That sort of life is now my number one goal to achieve in the next fifteen years, more or less. The idea of just being able to live somewhere quiet and potter about with the missus and our books, music and other hobbies seems like heaven.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 13, 2019 15:20:19 GMT
We've got our eye on this place. We'd have to sell our house in Toronto and commit to country living but it sure is nice... link
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Post by tory on Aug 13, 2019 16:53:29 GMT
I'm not that keen on the outside but it's absolutely gorgeous inside.
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Post by Cousin Lou on Aug 13, 2019 17:14:32 GMT
We've got our eye on this place. We'd have to sell our house in Toronto and commit to country living but it sure is nice... linkJust do it!
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Aug 13, 2019 17:17:11 GMT
It's fucking HUGE!
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Post by rayge on Aug 13, 2019 17:27:40 GMT
One thing Canadee has is space, and not all of it between Hepcat's ears.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 13, 2019 17:31:54 GMT
It's all moot anyhow. We just paid off our mortgage, so we have the equity to buy that place outright if we wanted to, but then we'd be flat broke, albeit with a nice house in the country.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Sept 2, 2019 20:05:08 GMT
I've just had a quote of £350 from a surveyor so I've told them to go ahead and look at the flat I mentioned and deliver a Home Buyer's Report. If they say it's in a reasonable condition (and I'm mostly concerned about damp/flood risks) then I might make an offer before Xmas.
I'm really in limbo now, living in a hotel, looking for work somewhere. I need to get out of the house in Whitehaven soonish so this old couple can move in, but I have a shitload of things to sell/give away/dump/put in storage. And then I could end up anywhere. It's not great, but things should be better in a few weeks - I think!
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