Moving about

[tobyaw]

It struck me the other day that many of my friends have moved away from the place where they lived as children and made their own choice of where to live, whereas at work there are a higher number of people who are native to the area. So I thought I’d make a poll.

[Poll #1735055]

Comments

[vivdunstan.livejournal.com]

I chose education, which is right, but it's not why I stay in this area. It's because I love St Andrews, and wouldn't want to move away far. But that predates university, going back to summer holidays from age 8 onwards.

Martin and I were determined to stay in this area. Luckily work has made that possible!

[djelibeybi-meg.livejournal.com]

Given the option to move with my job, it was an opportunity to salvage my husband's health. Whilst it helped, it was not entirely successful.

[andrewducker]

I disapprove of my neighbours BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT TURN DOWN THE MUSIC AT 2AM!!!

[ggreig]

I don't approve of any of those things; because they don't need my approval and are basically none of my business. My lack of approval shouldn't be taken as disapproval.

[tokyo-mb.livejournal.com]

Your questions are difficult to answer Toby... Do I answer them for my flat in London (currently let out but by 2012 to become my weekday home), home in Tokyo or our new place in Shropshire (which will be my weekend home, but not a holiday home). For the latter, we will certainly be in-comers for at least the next 25 years(!)

It's interesting to see (from Facebook friend requests) just how many of my peers from my rural secondary school are still within 10-15 miles of where they grew up.

As to approval, to my mind holiday homes vary - something that is used regularly and where the holiday-makers use local shops and facilities is generally positive, where not occupied for much of the year and supplied solely by Tesco delivery it is much less easy to "approve" from the perspective of impact on the local community.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I lean towards mild disapproval of people buying holiday homes and homes to let around here because the property market is already insane and neither of these things helps. More than 10x average income is necessary to buy anything in most areas of the city (5.5xAI in the UK generally), and the average house price is 14.5xAI, which is just not reasonable, but buy-to-let/part-time residents unfortunately render that level sustainable.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

I cannot imagine anyone buying a holiday home in my current neighbourhood, but I certainly don't see why not.

[sismith42.livejournal.com]

While I worked away from home for 6 months, I don't count that as moving, as it wasn't permenant (I still had "my" home in Edinburgh).

Also, I don't think it's appropriate for me to approve (or not) of my neighbours.