Horatio Yed wrote:
Looking to move back up north (actually it's my wife), with my family living in Warrington and her father living in Chesterfield we decided to live inbetween and chose this area, although it's a beautiful area the property is very cheap, just wondering if there's a reason for that and if anyone has any info on the areas in the High Peak district
Chapel-en-le-Frith
Whaley Bridge
New Mills
and all the little villages around
Thanks
Although it's a while ago now (1999), we moved back North.
We looked at it logically and made a list of what we felt was important, i.e. Preferably stone-built Victorian (or older) house with character, cellar and/or garage, walking distance from the railway station (on a line direct to Manchester), walking distance from shops etc, nearby cash machine, at least one pub, at least one restaurant etc ... stuff like that, someone else's list would obviously vary from ours.
We found that the villages were cheapest even back then too but they mostly would have meant having to get the car out to do anything at all.
That would have been too much of a change for us, we were used to London.
Obviously nowhere was going to be "like" London and we weren't looking for an impossible equivalent but the things on the list were what we wanted.
Back then Chapel e-l-F seemed a little run down (might be fine now, I don't know) and we very nearly ended up in Buxton which ticked an awful lot of boxes, a nice town with stuff going on and a theatre as well.
Depends what you want but look at the weather right now ... for me, a small town is better than a village in weather like this.
