"Barry & Iris McCanna" wrote in message
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I was going to suggest that! We moved here at the end of 1997 and
have three acres with a 17th century farmhouse. Loads of space for
gardening. For the money you are planning to spend you would be
able to find a decent house plus a very good sized garden. Prices
are
going up all the time, but £120,000 would still buy something good
here. Can heartily recommend the life.

Regards
Iris McCanna



Another thought is to get some of the gardening magazines and look at
the classified ads. There are always properties for sale with
emphasis on the garden. Your price level is going to be against you
though. A friend of mine has just paid £147,000 for a one-bedroomed
flat on the south coast. When you watch some of the property
programmes on the television it is pretty impossible even for the
specialists to find suitable places within budget. Also you see
young couples born and bred in a Cornish village or similar searching
in vain for something they can afford to buy to start their life
together. They can't. We live in Basse Normandie and it is getting
like that here too. The young people cannot afford to buy because the
English are paying larger and larger amounts for everything.

Iris McCanna