half a million pound

[Tony.London Suburbs]

As Above.

[daizie]

ah ok, yes shared . Youd have to find someone else with all that money though. ideally where would the country bolthole be, and the spanish holiday home?

[Tony.London Suburbs]

daizie Wrote:

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> ah ok, yes shared . Youd have to find someone else

> with all that money though. ideally where would

> the country bolthole be, and the spanish holiday

> home?

Country bolthole? Either Whitstable or more likely The Cotswolds/Mendips-West Country, daizie.

My best M8 is buying a place (2 ? ) in Niagara-On-The-Lakes, Ontario at the moment but such is his disillusionment with the deterioration of our standards of behaviour that he may emigrate full time, so I wish I had his money to invest there, as well.

[daizie]

*sigh* :))

[LegalEagle-ish]

I'd buy this:

http://media.primelocation.com/DAJAGR/DAJC/DAJC999000437/PHOTO_03.JPG

http://media.primelocation.com/DAJAGR/DAJC/DAJC999000437/PHOTO_02.JPG

Smallholding with converted barn and two detached barns with views over Blagdon Lake and set in 9.60 acres (3.89ha).

As a whole or in 2 lots.

As a whole GUIDE PRICE ?500,000

[Mick Mac]

You would not be allowed on the forum if you lived there Legal. That does not look like SE London.

[LegalEagle-ish]

Yes it is - is near Peckham Rye!

[Santerme]

I would not mind an apartment in London with my ?500,000 spare.

I am already nicely set up in the West Country.

Ontario is nice TLS, we have a home in Winnipeg and a cottage on the lake just outside the city.

My wife is a lawyer in Canada.

[Mick Mac]

Gosh.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Santerme Wrote:

I am already nicely set up in the West Country. Ontario is nice TLS, we have a home in Winnipeg and a cottage on the lake just outside the city. My wife is a lawyer in Canada.

He will definitely buy one place but may, possibly, if finances stretch, get 2 with a view to renting one or both out throughout the year.

Apparently you can drink out of parts of Lake Ontario and it is bigger thn The UK....

Do these statements ring true Santerme?

[Keef]

Boring as it may sound, I'd buy a house outright for about 350-400,000, then I wouldn't have to bother so much about work, and could chill out and play one of my several new guitars.

[bigbadwolf]

For me Canada was probably one of the most stunning countries I've ever been to. I don't think I've ever been any where in the world (apart from the sea) where I've experienced true wilderness. I was part of a surveying expedition into the Yukon territory and even though we were miles away from civilization and slappers I loved every minute of it...even the bloody midges.

I could honestly see myself living in somewhere like British Columbia when I'm older.

[Santerme]

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote:

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> Santerme Wrote:

> I am already nicely set up in the West Country.

> Ontario is nice TLS, we have a home in Winnipeg

> and a cottage on the lake just outside the city.

> My wife is a lawyer in Canada.

>

> He will definitely buy one place but may,

> possibly, if finances stretch, get 2 with a view

> to renting one or both out throughout the year.

>

> Apparently you can drink out of parts of Lake

> Ontario and it is bigger thn The UK....

>

> Do these statements ring true Santerme?

There are 100,000 freshwater lakes just in Manitoba.

It is a 16 hour drive from Winnipeg to Churchill (where the Polar Bears are)which is pretty much South to North

Just Manitoba is five times the size of the UK.

I always think I have made it when I cross the Newfoundland coast, but Winnipeg is another two and a bit hours flying time.

It is a great city, a time bubble of England in the 60's.

It also has an enormous temperature range, from plus 40 in some summers to minus 45 and colder with wind chill.

I have changed a tyre (tire) in minus 38, not much fun.

The people are almost too friendly, the city has some of the best restaurants in North America.

It is also just 90 minutes drive from the North Dakota border, not that there is much in Grand Rapids, or you can fly to Minnesota in 55 minutes, which is actually a great city.

Or be in Rockies around Calgary in about the same timeframe.

I am not a great fan of the East coast, but the West is stunning

[brum]

I'd spend my 500k on a yacht and sail the world in her, accompanied a beautiful woman, who would apply sunbloc to those hard-to-get-places.

Daizie, did you tell us what you would spend the money on? Or haven't I been paying enough attention?

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Santerme Wrote:

There are 100,000 freshwater lakes just in Manitoba.

It is a 16 hour drive from Winnipeg to Churchill (where the Polar Bears are)which is pretty much South to North

Just Manitoba is five times the size of the UK. I always think I have made it when I cross the Newfoundland coast, but Winnipeg is another two and a bit hours flying time. It is a great city, a time bubble of England in the 60's.

It also has an enormous temperature range, from plus 40 in some summers to minus 45 and colder with wind chill.

I have changed a tyre (tire) in minus 38, not much fun. The people are almost too friendly, but the city has some of the best restaurants in North America. It is also 90 minutes from the North Dakota border or you can fly to Minnesota in 55 minutes. Or be in Rockies around Calgary in about the same timeframe. I am not a great fan of the East coast, but the

West is stunning...

I thoroughly enjoyed Vancouver ( and the Island) in British Columbia but was sad, when in 1979, I met an old cockney rom Herne Hill called Charlie sitting forlorn on a park bench. He had emigrated and seemed lost away from his London Town.

I would love to tour and visit Canada again.

I had a great 6/7 weeks travelling from LA thru' Oregon/Washington to Canada and across to Niagara and down thru' The Eastern New England States to New York, and yet even at the age of only 25 I had a real lump in my throat on returning to "my" England and London at The Elephant and Castle on my return. I probably shed tears to be back and yet I enjoyed every minute.

That was 30 years ago and now I have been so immersed in England/Britain and our way of life that I know I would get homesick if I ever Emigrated ( after the initial "honeymoon" period, of course).

So it will always be England, for me.(tu)

[Tony.London Suburbs]

daizie Wrote:

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> *sigh* :))

Why the "sigh" daizie?;-)

[daizie]

it was a wistful sigh , hehehe @ the old cockney from herne hill! my oldest friend went on a travel round the world and asked the woman over in the next toilet for some loo roll in australia , and it turned out shed lived in her previous house in croydon. Yes i think i too would always miss england , i couldnt really imagine living anywhere else . Id spend the money , though id probably need to double it, on a seafront detatched property on the south coast of england somewhere,

[macroban]

?500,000 is such a small amount of money that it would have spent on something frivolous.

I would erect a very large bronze statue on a plinth at the centre of the flower bed at the entrance to Peckham Rye Park. The tablet would read:

MACROBAN

EAST DULWICH MISANTHROPIST

It would stay in place for months as no part of Southwark Council would realise it hadn't been done by another part of the council.