dan

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• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 weeks

  

  Oh... Sad times. Is this a serious thing or are you spitballing?

  There are plenty of beautiful places within commute distance of Edinburgh. South, places like Berwick on the border and north up the coast to Dundee. It's all stunning and accessible.

  I'd love to do the same but I think too many elderly parents and family in/around London for it to be feasible.

• The Dentist Association; Cervelo Owners Club

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• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months, 2 weeks

  

  Already got one mate 😂

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months, 2 weeks

  

  I want an estate now. Drove my mums auto touring Merc the other day- so nice. Shame it's a Mercedes (and diesel).

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months, 2 weeks

  

  Not overkill. You've got plenty to put in it and an estate with cruise control will be a much nicer drive on those long motorway days than a golf/hatchback.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 months, 3 weeks

  

  100%... With driving gloves and Transitions lenses

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 months, 3 weeks

  

  Wow. Pricey. Ours was 1.2l and a smidge over £1k the first time we insured for Eb when she was a new driver.

  We had black box and that made a big difference - have you checked that out?

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 months, 3 weeks

  

  Note to self: must collect more old people

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 months, 3 weeks

  

  P.s don't buy a Honda jazz.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 months, 3 weeks

  

  If you want cheap and cheap to insure, buy a skoda fabia. I think they're insurance group 1 or 2 and are basically a cheap Polo. Easy to drive, park in London and not too bad on motorways.
  We loved ours and only replaced because we were doing more and more long journeys/UK holidays (and because I am a wanker).
  We got our insurance down to about 550 a year (eb 3 years and me new driver).

  Am also really enjoying our 118i now though and don't feel like it's too much car for me as a new-ish driver. I think the insurance is something like 800 a year and it cost just under 10k for a 2015 plate with 30k miles on it. Bought part cash, part small bank loan (better than ridiculous finance deals) so repayments are low and it doesn't cost us much to run.

  If you buy a 2011-2013 one with less than 50k miles you're looking at 6-7k (fag packet estimate). I looked at golfs but they're a bit dull and pretty much the same money as a BMW so I bought the car I liked instead.