LONDON LICKPENNY (n.) Something that licks up, or is a drain upon, one’s money, from an early 15th-century ballad that today doth refer to the price of London housing.
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Prices in London are definitely a drain on personal finances. But the rest of England is catching up fast.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You’re sitting on a goldmine in Beetley, house prices rising by the day.
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That only works if you trade down to a smaller house/flat or a move to a less desirable area though.
Some areas 20 miles north of us on the coast are approaching London house prices because of second-homers and people moving here from London to work from home. When I die, I expect my wife will sell up and move further south in Norfolk, to be near her two daughters in Attleborough. Housing in that town is still considerably cheaper than Beetley.
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