Moving house

[crapmemory]

We are thinking about moving to Rushden or Wellingborough in Northants from London. We could get a nicer house and have money in the bank as the properties are cheaper. The only thing that is holding us back is the cost of my OH travelling back and forth to work. This would be about £7000 per annum.
Should we do it or wait until retirement?

[ummmm]

Wellingborough is a sh1thole. Kettering is much better and still a lot cheaper than Northampton let alone London. £7,000 per annum will have to weighed up with what you'd be saving. Only you know that.

[Sqad]

ummmm...LOL

[jackthehat]

There are numerous towns/villages in that area that are worth looking at.
Does your OH go by train or car ?

[mccfluff]

£7k a year??? how is he traveling?

[ummmm]

It's about £25 return from Northampton to London.

If you doing that journey daily you'd be able to get it cheaper by buying season tickets...or whatever they are called.

Sqad...It's true. I know people that have moved from Northampton to Wellingborough because the houses are cheaper. They always came back though.

[Sqad]

ummmm...in the post war period, Wellingborough was upmarket, I have played rugger against Wellingborough Grammar School many a time, also ran there.......things clearly have gone downhill.

[ummmm]

Upmarket...never heard it called that :-)

Like Jack says...there are some lovely villiages in Northants.

[jackthehat]

I always preferred Wellingborough to Kettering...................

[Sqad]

JTH....did you ever go to Whickstead Park?

[ummmm]

Did you?

Everyone has been to wickstead Sqad

[jackthehat]

Memory seems to have me there most Sunday afternoons..........picnics with my parents.

[Sqad]

ummmm...LOL I would cycle there from Peterborough..........long drag back though.

[ummmm]

We use to have a caravan at Billing Aquadrome....how adventurous were we??!

[Sqad]

JTH :-) does the little train still go around?

[ummmm]

I'm just checking it out....I haven't been for years.

[jackthehat]

It's been many years since I went.
They 'updated' it all and it became almost like a mini theme-park.

I used to love that train.............2d a ride.

[ummmm]

Sqad...

http://www.wicksteedp...icksteed-Railway.aspx

[Sqad]

JTH/ummmm.....blimey it´s rite posh now!

[ummmm]

I use to love the boat ride. They also put an outdoor swimming pool there years ago. Doesn't seem to be there now. I loved it.

[dotty.]

we stayed at Billing aquadome in a trailer tent in 1991, we went to a park near there that has a river running through it with almost rapids! At Billing we have pictures of my daughter on the 20p rocking horses, she loved it there.It was abit worrying though as there was a big lake in the middle and my youngest was only 4 and he loved the water!