I want out mkII (..brighton advice wtd)

[julian]

Id kinda been meening to ask here for a while, but Tec's thread has reminded me...

Im pretty sick of where im living at the moment too, and have really got to shift before it gets me too irritated!

I was all set on the idea of legging it completly, but i have some developments with work which are worth a 6 month time gamble at least, in case they lead somewhere desirable. So, at the moment, i need to be arround brigton ish (i dont need to come here every day, but i dont want to drive miles and miles when i have to)

I guess im thinking the ideal might be to live out in the surrounding area, somwhere where its green insted of grey when i look out of the window!

So, yeah, any suggestions would be cool - anything thatll let me get one up on getting a map and just looking through the yellow pages for estate agents, if you see what i meen?

Or indeed even if anyone has / knows of etc. a nice room somewhere thats resonable sterile, that'ld be cool... In fact even if it is in brighton center itself - a change of scenery from here at least!

[decadnids]

julian whats sort of milage are you willing to travel? how much you willing to pay on rent? you've lived in lewes before havn't you. - so you know what it is like there.

[julian]

*milage - no good with stuff like that, but i guess about 20-25 mins range, somthing like that

in reality, whenever i have to drive here at present, i seem to spend more time trying to find a parking space than driving (and, no, unfortunatly i cant walk when i doing work stuff - too much weight)

*cost - if it were fuffilling all my dreams id con myself up to about £500. at present im getting stung for £400 for a cubical in the hive - which, in honesty, dosnt seem particularly good value... What do rooms in nice shared houses go for in brighton? Im totally out of touch...

id like to think that living out of town would be better value, but i dont really know.

*lewis - yeah, i lived in Lewis way back, but that was just in the tarmac'd zone there too, so no advantage over brighton in a lot of respects...

[decadnids]

julian - milages, so 20-25 minutes, it all depends on the traffic, and what time of day, doesn't really give good judgment of distance, can take 20 minutes to drive from kemptown to hove... if the traffic is bad.

lewes is 7 miles from brighton, is that too far?

shared houses - you're looking at 300+ for a bedroom i'd say. - do you reckon you could handle sharing with other people after living alone for so long?

by living out of town are you really just talking about living in the suburbs, like where fraser and that lot lived?

[julian]

i dont have a map to hand, but i was thinking ripe, ditchling, steyning, that sort of range. im thinking 20 mins to the edge of town... like i said, it can take 15 mins to get rid of the lump of metal in zone M

the primary disadvantage of living with others is that constant moving on all the time, but in those that i know who share, that seems to have slowed some anyway now (age, standing, etc. i guess)

the secondary disadvantages are the things like decaying food left about. ive lived in houses that have worked well, but also ones that have worked exceedingly badly (remember that one up on queens park that i had to leave!). looking round at friends arrangements there are some that id be happy in, and some that would, i suspect, make me feel uncomfortable.

i dont think the rest is too significant though

and i see that there are advantages of communal living too, gaining insparation from others arround you is always good, for instance.

do you remember that farm cottage that oralndo lived in over lewis way, just before evreything went, umm, wrong? that kinda arrangement would probably be ideal, but im not entirely sure how to achieve it.

suburbia has no real advantage over where i live at present, except possibly the 101 could live on the street without the council whinging. itlld certainly be nice to be able to leave tools on the ground whilst you have a tea break, and them still be there when you get back...

i guess that last line sums it up pretty well actually...

[decadnids]

Yeah I remember orlando's place - it was near glynde.

its pretty hard to find rural places though unless you have people you already want to move in with, i've looked before, and there are not that many shared places out of town, i'd like to rent in a rural area myself. - aslong as i can cycle to a train station (and i'd be willing to cycle up to ten miles if the right place cropped up).

steyning seems an alright place to live i reckon, and not too far out of brighton, and you have shoreham at hand for popping into a place that is a "town"