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Thanks i had thought about a loan but didn't follow up.

There's one thing somewhere being good for your career, another feeling like you're living to work because you can't afford the money or time to do the things you want to do.

This is me. £150K p/a, > 3 years of accounts but banks can't understand low salary and high dividends so won't give me a decent mortgage. Plus my credit rating is fucked from moving to a different rental place each year. I'm looking at auctions instead.

I've heard a rumour Halifax might give mortgages to contractors based on a pro-rated day rate...

I'm thinking of doing the same. I make more money than I ever imagined I would but the quality of life is crap. Shit properties, polluted, unfriendly people, overpriced...

I'm thinking I might do another year then bail.

All I want is a place where people are actually friendly, not too busy to care about each other, somewhere with a garage for my motorbikes and a garden for barbecues. Not much to ask, but can't see London being the place.

I'm literally only in London now for the money.