Sell house first or get job first?

• Guest 728

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  18 June 2012     07:31178621
  #1      
  When you're in your 40's and you want to move from London to Dover do you:
  
  Sell your property first
  
  or
  
  Get a job in the Dover area first?
  
  We've never had to worry about this sort of thing before!
• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
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  18 June 2012     07:39178624
  #2      
  jobs are not so many down this way steve, as you can appreciate over the coming years it's likely to get worse.
  
  it depends what you have in mind, but i would suggest a job comes in handy to pay he bills lol
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• Guest 698

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  18 June 2012     08:17178629
  #3      
  Find the job first. Then you can commute or rent locally while you sell your house.
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• Guest 655

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  18 June 2012     08:19178630
  #4      
  Agree with Peter... find job, rent - buy...
• Keith Sansum1

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  18 June 2012     08:33178635
  #5      
  thought iu said that
  
  anyway good luck
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• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
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  18 June 2012     08:45178640
  #6      
  I agree with the others get the job first rent and take your time finding exactly where you want to live the varying districts each have their own feeling.
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• Keith Sansum1

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  18 June 2012     08:46178642
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  jan;
  and like you say there are many differing places in and around dover
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• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  18 June 2012     08:58178646
  #8      
  1-Get the local Estate Agent in to do valuation, you will also get an idea of market strength.
  2-Check out the market in East Kent for price over suitability and market strength.
  3-Check out the East Kent/local job market in your field.
  
  Other than that, the advice as given above, to find work first & rent while sorting things out in London:house sale, removal. And, of course, the house-purchase locally.
  
  Does your daughter drive? If not, driving lessons would go to the top of the list.
  
  It must be Monday, I found this this morning...
  
  http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/what-s-the-right-price-of-your-house.html
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 745

  • Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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  18 June 2012     17:33178805
  #9      
  Job situation very slim, all depends on your profession,
  
  
  If its house building and you can pas yourself of as east European you'll be ok