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Vecchio 09-10-2014, 10.26.04
Surreyman
 
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On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 11:13:20 PM UTC+1, Martin wrote:[color=blue]
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 08:23:42 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman <alanspencer3@googlemail.com>
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> >On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:04:53 AM UTC+1, Martin wrote:[/color]
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> >> On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 01:53:56 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman <alanspencer3@googlemail.com>[/color][/color]
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> >> >On Monday, October 6, 2014 9:31:20 PM UTC+1, Martin wrote:[/color][/color]
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> >> >> On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 07:04:36 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman <alanspencer3@googlemail.com>[/color][/color]
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> >> >> >On Monday, October 6, 2014 12:36:27 PM UTC+1, Martin wrote:[/color][/color]
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> >> >> >> houses in N Staffordshire cost a fraction of the price of houses in Surrey. A[/color][/color]
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> >> >> >> good three bed roomed semi-detached house costs under ?150K[/color][/color]
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> >> >> >> Makes one wonder why there isn't a mass migration to leafy N Staffordshire :-)[/color][/color]
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> >> >> >You're telling me.[/color][/color]
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> >> >> >I've just moved (within the same town) to a small 3-bedroom detached bungalow for ?400,000.[/color][/color]
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> >> >> >You tell me why I don't move to Staffs - or, more especially, Spain! :-))[/color][/color]
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> >> >> Zuid Holland isn't any cheaper than that.[/color][/color]
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> >> >> For some reason I thought you lived in Harwich.[/color][/color]
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> >> >> Martin in Zuid Holland[/color][/color]
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> >> >Nah - deepest Surrey. Apparently the most expensive for property in the UK except for central London. :-([/color][/color]
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> >> I guess Surreyman was a clue :-)[/color][/color]
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> >> The bungalow is cheap by Zuid Holland standards. There's a property boom here[/color][/color]
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> >> prices have reached 2003 level. Some years ago the Dutch government killed the[/color][/color]
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> >> Martin in Zuid Holland[/color][/color]
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> >Just realised I don't know where you are, either (& I don't mean Zuid Holland!)?[/color]
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Nice. Used to visit the excellent university there.
On the surface at least (?) an extremely attractive town.
I used a flat in den Haag for my visits (moving throughout Netherlands, bookshops, publishers, universities), made numerous friends with whom we still visit, and in the 60s my wife and I also darned nearly 'emigrated' there.
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