Apr. 14th, 2014

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Week

Liv has been working from home from Cambridge all week. It's been really lovely to spend just ordinary evenings together.

This weekend we went to her parents to help with passover prep for tonight. That's always a huge bustle, but I think we are actually coping a lot better than we used to, in that it's not constantly stressful.

I finally sold and transferred some shares left over from my previous job into my normal savings account. This is a thing that has been stressing me for years, not because it's actually that complicated, but because I was cross with myself about it.

House viewings

We went to several serious house viewings. A couple which were nice, but look un-insulatable, and one which was perfectly good: nice inside, medium living room plus small conservatory, nicely acceptable kitchen and bathroom. Off the east side of Ditton Lane (the opposite side to "the bulge").

We need to check if that's near the flooding area, because we don't want to risk that. Does anyone know how to check? (Obviously we can confirm that during the survey, etc, but there's no point going that far unless we think it's ok and we only need proof.)

If that's ok we're seriously intending to make an offer. The asking price is £250k (just below the stamp duty threshold). I'm not sure what to expect people to actually offer -- I think the competition in Fen Ditton is noticeably less, so I don't know whether to expect "most people will stick below the threshold so a cash offer of £250k might be at the head of the queue", or "even at the stamp duty threshold people will bid up by several thousand" or "any offer less than £275 is naive and insulting".

I'm not sure how much we value a slightly larger house (say, three medium bedrooms rather than two medium bedrooms) or living in arbury/chesterton instead of fen ditton. I like the fen ditton area, but I think arbury is probably better because it's closer most of my friends. I think we'd be equally happy paying the market value for this house, or paying £270 for a house which was larger or closer to the area I want to be in (even if we have to borrow a small amount).

Flood maps

Apr. 14th, 2014 11:18 am
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I'm looking at flood maps as linked on the previous post. But it looks like NONE of the fen ditton housing estates are in any of the areas marked as risk, at worst some of the houses added on to fen ditton proper.

When people warned about the recent flooding, did they mean places like Ditton Fields and Fison Road at all? Or did they just mean places like Green End, Fen Ditton?

I feel stupid for not having checked at the time. But I'm confused. Green End end of fen ditton is right by the river. OBVIOUSLY it floods. When people warned about flooding I assumed they were talking about the bulge and the other side of the main road, because that's where you could get bitten if you didn't realise you were at danger. But now I ask if that was completely wrong. Is there any way of finding out where actually flooded in the recent floods?

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