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TonyCarter

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Cats are almost as selfish as me.

The moment you start licking all their bits they get all weird, but expect you to sit there quietly whilst they nibble on your ears or nostrils!
 
Martinr36

Martinr36

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SpyderTracks

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At my prep school, a friend of mine was one of those weird kids that most people avoid. I found him fascinating because he did things that were so leftfield that I always learnt new things around him

At the prep school they had some plots right at the bottom of the grounds where you could grow stuff in your spare time. This guy used to sign up to this club every year, never grew anything, but he used to spend hours just digging with a trowel to find worms and then would eat them live!

He ended up being quite senior in the UK Forestry and Conservation Commission 🤣

Matt, if you’re out there, lifelong respect going out to you.
 
SpyderTracks

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ubuysa said:
@SpyderTracks is a proper posh-boy fol-de-rol then. Ah, that explains a lot! :ROFLMAO:

I went to a grammar school and now I is having good grammar. Not much else though....
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I did have an elitist upbringing and then suitably destroyed any trace of it once I hit puberty.

Never could stand to be around those toffee-nosed scumbags, they'd sell their own mothers if it got them a tax write off.
 
Martinr36

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SpyderTracks said:
At my prep school, a friend of mine was one of those weird kids that most people avoid. I found him fascinating because he did things that were so leftfield that I always learnt new things around him

At the prep school they had some plots right at the bottom of the grounds where you could grow stuff in your spare time. This guy used to sign up to this club every year, never grew anything, but he used to spend hours just digging with a trowel to find worms and then would eat them live!

He ended up being quite senior in the UK Forestry and Conservation Commission 🤣

Matt, if you’re out there, lifelong respect going out to you.
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My eldest daughter used to eat live snails🐌🐌🐌
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

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SpyderTracks said:
How much is a 2 bed place to buy?
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It depends on where, just like the UK. It depends on how much work you want to do on it too. It can be hard to buy here too, for a couple of reasons...
  • The general ethos here is that property belongs to the family, so most people won't sell the home that their children will inherit. The properties that do come up for sale are either new/upgraded developments (which are expensive) or places due to a death or moving abroad.
  • Under Greek law you cannot disinherit your children, they will inherit an equal share of your estate whatever you want. That means that properties that come vacant on the death of someone are then owned by a dozen children and grandchildren. It takes only one who doesn't want to sell and no deal can take place. There are many long vacant properties here that can't be sold because at least one child/grandchild/great-grandchild doesn't want to sell.
  • In addition, if you buy and later want to sell up, it can be hard to get the money out of Greece and back into the UK.
The majority of people rent. We rent. At our age who are you investing buying a property for? Renting here is much easier than in the UK. You can do whatever you want to the property (within reason) as long as you don't pull it down.

Rents obviously vary. If you want a sea view here expect to pay around €800 - €1000 per month for 2 beds. If you don't want a sea view but you want to be in town then rents are around €400 - €800 per month. If you're happy to be out of town (which means you need a car - and they are VERY expensive here*) then you could find 2 beds for as little as €200 per month.

We rent a 2 bed apartment (75 sqm) with a large balcony (25 sqm) for €420 per month (up from €350 per month that we've been paying for the last 7 years). We are in town but we don't have a sea view - our view is the back of a large hotel.

The cost of living here is way lower than the UK, it's less stressful and much healthier too. The problem now, post Brexit, is that it's hard to move here now, there are lots of hurdles to jump through now, and a big financial requirement too AFAIK, because you're not EU citizens any more.

*We drive a 1995 Suzuki Samurai jeep that belongs to a friend who lives most of the year in the UK. That car would sell today for at least €2500. In the UK you couldn't give it away. There is a huge import tax on cars here and that cost filters all the way down through the second-hand car market. Cars that would sell for £2000 in the UK will sell for €10000 here.
 
Martinr36

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ubuysa said:
Rents obviously vary. If you want a sea view here expect to pay around €800 - €1000 per month for 2 beds. If you don't want a sea view but you want to be in town then rents are around €400 - €800 per month. If you're happy to be out of town (which means you need a car - and they are VERY expensive here*) then you could find 2 beds for as little as €200 per month.
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Yeah rents vary here a lot, depending where in the country you are, this time a couple of years back I was paying £740 a month for a 1 bed flat in Buckinghamshire (it's now £1K+), I've just agreed a deal on a 3 bed victorian mid terrace house up here in Cheshire, for £695 a month
 
SpyderTracks

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Martinr36 said:
Yeah rents vary here a lot, depending where in the country you are, this time a couple of years back I was paying £740 a month for a 1 bed flat in Buckinghamshire (it's now £1K+), I've just agreed a deal on a 3 bed victorian mid terrace house up here in Cheshire, for £695 a month
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Damn, that's a great deal in Cheshire!!
 
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