What is your ambition in life

[1srelluc]

Well, there's a government PDF that gives the average price of land with planning in every part of England, it's a few years old now. The cost is per Hectare. There are 2.471054 acres to a hectare and 4,047 square metres to an acre. London is over £100m per Hectare, Cumbria is just over £700,000. Suffice to say, the average in Cumbria is £75 per sqm with planning. But you could have a crap area with a lower amount and posh areas with high amounts. So 0.25 x 4,047 x £75 = £75,881. But what's happening is, they sell at least double that.

There was a plot for a small house, 3 feet to each side of it, one car parking parallel to the house, tiny back garden asking price £45k. I offered £50k and was immediately told they had much higher bids. And I reckon I offered about £100+ per sqm. As for auctions, forget it. You need double the asking price, and then, you'll get outbid. It's at a point where buy a house, there's no return on it unless you live in it for a few decades.

Get shed of the Muslims and maybe prices will go down.

 

[Quasar44]

Apart from always wanting to kick a duck up the arse, my ambition is to build my own house on a plot of land.

What is your ambition in life?

To survive the next 7 weeks !!!

About it

I also want to live long enough to see Batman 2 and the Odyssey

 

[Quasar44]

To die quietly in my sleep at a very old age.

Like my grandfather... not screaming in terror like his passengers...

This is a major problem for me as I live alone.

I could literally die in my sleep and rot away for months and nobody would even know.

This has frighten me a few times

 

[shockedcanadian]

Why do I always doubt people when they cannot spell out the word God?

Because you have a different view of the sanctity of his existence. To each their own. I made a conscious decision to alter how I interact in writing.

After one has been kicked around in life long enough and received multiple signs that dictates ones belief, you express unique reverence for that which is most high.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Feeding doves in the city.

Feed them to the cats

 

[Bleipriester]

Feed them to the cats

I fed a few doves a couple of times. Then I didn´t for over half a year. But they remembered me when I was back in their place.

 

[jackflash]

Land in the UK is expensive and rare as hens teeth, so it's a case of being in the know and lucky, unless you pay a complete fortune for a tiny plot.

Sorry, for some reason I had it in my mind that U were in our USA. Sure wishing U the best in the future for sure!

 

[Chuz Life]

What is your ambition in life?​

The older I get, the more difficult that question is to answer. I'll try to not get too philosophical but, when you realize how little time you have left, you start rethinking past ambitions. Especially the ambitions that were towards materialistic things. I try to be thankful for the very imperfect life I've had. I've certainly exceeded my early life expectations.

My family is in survival mode right now. Losing money every month and living on savings with no means to put it back. Now, my main ambition is to stop the bleeding (find a side hustle that works around my responsibilities as a care giver) and to have something enough that I'm proud to leave our daughter when I'm gone.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Get shed of the Muslims and maybe prices will go down.

 

[odanny]

To figure out where to move to next. It's not as easy as it sounds, the immediate goal is to get my house fixed up enough to list it and then determine where to buy something else, cost is not the major concern, finding the right location is my main concern.

A first world concern, to be sure.

 

[hjmick]

To figure out where to move to next. It's not as easy as it sounds, the immediate goal is to get my house fixed up enough to list it and then determine where to buy something else, cost is not the major concern, finding the right location is my main concern.

A first world concern, to be sure.

Every day that I don't live in an abandoned mansion swallowed by the woods is a day lost...

 

[Captain Caveman]

Every day that I don't live in an abandoned mansion swallowed by the woods is a day lost...

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YouTube "Escape to rural France"

It's where they're doing up an abandoned chateau.

 

[Chuz Life]

Interesting question for me, a retired person. I always had a "five year plan" in my adult life, and I generally met those goals, but now I admit living pretty much day to day. The only things I have to look forward to are vacations and cruises (also vacations). I get zero satisfaction from my descendants - don't tell them I wrote that - and there is nothing going forward that I aspire to, other than getting better at golf and bowling.

No more real ambitions. Kinda sad, isn't it?

Not to turn this thread into a contest or pity party but if you can still afford to travel, vacation, etc? I am so envvious, I had to say so.

I would be a metal detecting, guitar playing, hunting, shooting son of a *****