Changes chez yello; we're moving. All of around 30km from our rural idyll to a town. It's going to be an upheaval for me, I really love our house and garden, the peace calm and tranquility. We bought the new house earlier this year and were lucky to sell our place within a couple of weeks of it going on the market (no chains in France) We've now got a couple of months to move, no pressure.
House moving
- Thread starter yello
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- Location
- Glasgow
Is the new place less tranquil?
Slighty, yes. In that you can sometimes hear cars! Here though, at this time of year, I can hear the wonderfully exotic song of the golden oriole. Truly magical. I won't get that, nor the true silence of rurality, in a town.
Moving is about a change, and wanting to reduce reliance on motor vehicles. We can walk to a market, to shops etc. It's about interaction too; more people around. Rural living can be isolating, and as we get older we've decided that could be an issue.
And I get to join a new cycling club.
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cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
I wish our move was so easy as we sold in jan and still havent got a confirmed move date yet 
I wish our move was so easy as we sold in jan and still havent got a confirmed move date yet
Yep....my daughter and SiL 'sold' thiers about January. No chain as the buyer has been renting it for 2 years. Do solicitors drag it out on purpose to make more money ?
We moved into this house in 1982, no chain and it went through very quickly.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Fastpedaller
Über Member
- Location
- Norfolk
Ours did - then said we need £300 to speed it up, we need the searches. They got the searches online for £50 - we could have got then ourselves a lot cheaper and earlier. Conned.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Having to move myself this year and I'm not looking forward to it. I've been lucky in that I've rented this flat for almost 24years and doubly lucky that the rent has been way below market average in all that time. Currently saving for a deposit and hoping to buy with a 15 year mortgage, which will mean working till I'm about 70... so I'm at the mercy of the banks.
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
House purchase is an antiquated mess in this country and urgently needs sorting out. In the USA the average time from offer to completion is 30 - 60 days.
https://buyhouse.global/how-long-does-it-take-to-buy-a-house-in-the-usa/
https://buyhouse.global/how-long-does-it-take-to-buy-a-house-in-the-usa/
These days selling to the people who are renting has become quite complex due to the new tenants protection laws. I think you have evict your tenants before you can sell to them or something bizarre .
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
a close friend purchased the house she was renting late last year and didn't have any issues like that.
I know it changed on the 1st May this year but essentially it's just the notice period has extended from 2 months to 4 months. [edit] and it's harder for landlords to take the house off the market and re-rent it, so better for tenants in that respect.
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Neither did my daughter who sold her house to the tenants last year. I know things have changed because some friends have decided to sell their rental property and gave the tenants first refusal and they are having to jump through hoops to do this and they are absolutely trying to make it as easy as possible for the tenants to buy it.
The new house is between an infants school and a high school. They're both a few hundred metres away, not next door. Around midday, we get the wonderful sound of the infants chattering as they walk in a crocodile to the high school, presumably for lunch. It really is a sound that makes me smile, brings a happiness. Then they come again back the other way, for afternoon classes, or possibly even a nap.
Opposite the house is the tree lined Champ de Foire, mainly parking but they do have periodic fairs, brocantes etc. Today it hosted the kids doing the French equivalent of cycling proficiency. All helmeted up and in high viz. So cool to watch.
Friday afternoon, the school buses come in to transport the high schoolers back to their homes. It's a large rural area, so the high school (lycée) is effectively a boarding school 5 days a week. You see the kids wheeling their suitcases etc to board their buses.
I think I'm going to like living at our new house.
Opposite the house is the tree lined Champ de Foire, mainly parking but they do have periodic fairs, brocantes etc. Today it hosted the kids doing the French equivalent of cycling proficiency. All helmeted up and in high viz. So cool to watch.
Friday afternoon, the school buses come in to transport the high schoolers back to their homes. It's a large rural area, so the high school (lycée) is effectively a boarding school 5 days a week. You see the kids wheeling their suitcases etc to board their buses.
I think I'm going to like living at our new house.
