The whole "I could buy X if I lived in Y" is pretty irrelevant and infuriating unless you could transport your current life to Y.
We have sort of done this.
Bought up in Scotland and still travel down for work each week. After Christmas Mrs Beard will prob be up there full time to set up a holiday let and I will move where the work takes me, but hopefully still in London.
It sounds daft, but a Mortgage in Scotland, car, travel and accommodation to and in London, comes in under London rent.
We have sort of done this.
Bought up in Scotland and still travel down for work each week. After Christmas Mrs Beard will prob be up there full time to set up a holiday let and I will move where the work takes me, but hopefully still in London.
It sounds daft, but a Mortgage in Scotland, car, travel and accommodation to and in London, comes in under London rent.