Would've if I could've
Barnes was very much home, but I'd need a maybe £750-£900k for a nice three bed with decent garden :(
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:26, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

You're looking about £700 for a flat in Aberdeen these days.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:26, Reply)

No one cares because no one wants to live there, they have to live there

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:35, Reply)

Are you some sort of cunt?
Lots of people want to live here because oil companies tend to pay over the odds.

Offshore someone as dim as you could probably make about £50k for pushing a broom.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:39, Reply)

yeah, average offshore salary is what, 77k or thereabouts?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:40, Reply)

Something like that, yeah.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:41, Reply)

and yet you moved to england
to do the world's most boring job for £2k?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:57, Reply)

it beats getting fucked by psychochomp in exchange for no pizza

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:59, Reply)

yay! old memes! lol!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 18:19, Reply)

So they have to live there to be near to the oil

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:44, Reply)

I see the council are considering an Aberdeen weighting for their employees as well
The property market up there is mental.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:39, Reply)

Tell me about it.
I was looking into trying to buy a flat recently. I've got a decent deposit saved up but I can't afford the £15-30 grand over the asking price that isn't covered by a mortgage.

National companies (that work with big oil companies) struggle to keep staff up here because local competitors can charge less and pay staff more.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:42, Reply)

one of my friends bought a flat in Ferryhill for 70K in 1997.
She just sold it at a ridiculous profit.

The BBC were reporting that property up there has done 100% growth over the last ten years and average rents for flats are a grand a month. Mental.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:49, Reply)

That's 17 years! You'd do less time for murder

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 18:01, Reply)

frog and i went out in barnes recently
he liked it. it was a bit full of double buggies and 4x4's for me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:28, Reply)

Stay about from my Barnes
It's pretty family orientated, but then I have two little girls so fits perfectly
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:29, Reply)

it's the women
all yoga doing blondes, trying to pretend they used to have careers and used to be interesting, whilst weaving their own organic yoghurt out of breastmilk and wiping giant couscous off baby mabel's face with a natural non-bleached yurt cloth.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:31, Reply)

That's us!
It's actually not that bad, but considering your northern sink estate upbringing I can imagine it's a little intimidating
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:34, Reply)

yah i used to work at goldmans but now all i can talk about are how many times a day my kid shits itself... meanwhile the husband tries to hide the reek of gin and tonic and secretarial minge that persists on his breath, however much he protests that he has been in a meeting/at the gym...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Aug 2014, 17:40, Reply)