Is Brighton to expensive

pottert

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• Aug 8, 2014

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Just a thought

Is the high cost of living in Sussex partly to blame for us losing out on players to other teams especially teams from the north.

For arguments sake lets say Adam Clayton was offered £15000 a week by both boro & us but he could buy a four bedroom house in midlesborough for £150000 but the same house in Sussex will cost £400000.We have signed 2 players this pre season from fulham is that because living in Brighton is cheaper than living in west London.

Just a thought

 

The Merry Prankster

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• Aug 8, 2014

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too

 

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TomandJerry

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Too*

 

carteater

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too

 

beorhthelm

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i love the idea that someone being paid £15k a week would care about the house prices of modest 4 bed.

people on that sort of money buy expensive properties where ever they are. they will buy something in the exclusive part of Middlesborough not on a Barretts estate.

 

DanielT

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Here's the ?

 

clippedgull

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pottert said:

Just a thought

Is the high cost of living in Sussex partly to blame for us losing out on players to other teams especially teams from the north.

For arguments sake lets say Adam Clayton was offered £15000 a week by both boro & us but he could buy a four bedroom house in midlesborough for £150000 but the same house in Sussex will cost £400000.We have signed 2 players this pre season from fulham is that because living in Brighton is cheaper than living in west London.

Just a thought

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Multitude of reasons. I think price of property is a minor concern when you are earning £500,000 plus a year!

More important would be family, kids (if they are settled at school) wages offered, realistic ambition of club etc etc Brighton as a city and surrounding area is one of the more attractive places to live in England, so property prices will only increase.

 

Notters

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• Aug 8, 2014

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Poor poor players. They'll soon be living in cardboard boxes.

 

pottert

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beorhthelm said:

i love the idea that someone being paid £15k a week would care about the house prices of modest 4 bed.

people on that sort of money buy expensive properties where ever they are. they will buy something in the exclusive part of Middlesborough not on a Barretts estate.

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I have been to Middlesborough & I don't think there is an exclusive part.

My point is that 99% of footballers chop & change clubs like the wind.
If you were offered the same money by 2 different clubs but living a 1 club would be a lot cheaper than living at the other club would that make you choose 1 way or the other

 

studio150

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• Aug 9, 2014

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Notters said:

Poor poor players. They'll soon be living in cardboard boxes.

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Luxury

 

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crookie

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Most players have a portfolio of properties from wherever they have played if they are sensible, and have had some time in the PL/Championship. And lets be honest, property prices are only moving one way for the forseeable future. I don't see the price of houses as an obstacle,. wages more likely.

 

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Wrong-Direction

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Most footballers rent anyway

 

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If u earn 15k which is 780k a year. U could borrow at 3.5 times a year salary 2.7 million for a house.

 

edna krabappel

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beorhthelm said:

people on that sort of money buy expensive properties where ever they are. they will buy something in the exclusive part of Middlesborough not on a Barretts estate.

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They won't live in Middlesbrough at all, any more than Ashley Barnes would live in Burnley.

They'll all have nice barn conversions/ mock Tudor monstrosities/ architect-designed shag-mansions out around the more pleasant, countrified parts of North Yorkshire. Or on Sir John Hall's footballer enclave estate.

Middlesbrough is right up there amongst the shittest towns in Britain. Nobody would live there if they didn't have to.

 

edna krabappel

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And I bet the two we've signed from Fulham haven't even moved house. It's such a short term career, it's not worth it. They're probably live slap bang in the footballer-belt of Surrey & commuting down.

 

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pottert said:

I have been to Middlesborough & I don't think there is an exclusive part.

My point is that 99% of footballers chop & change clubs like the wind.
If you were offered the same money by 2 different clubs but living a 1 club would be a lot cheaper than living at the other club would that make you choose 1 way or the other

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Yarm very posh.

 

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BensGrandad

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edna krabappel said:

And I bet the two we've signed from Fulham haven't even moved house. It's such a short term career, it's not worth it. They're probably live slap bang in the footballer-belt of Surrey & commuting down.

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Most Fulham players live around Epsom area or between there and Horsham

 

Stumpy Tim

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When I moved back to Brighton I rented. You can rent a 4/5 bedroom swanky place in Rottingdean for £2,500 a month. The club would probably offer to pay that if they had to. It really isn't an issue

 

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Too

 

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Shuggie

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Places are expensive because people want to live there.
Places are cheap because people don't want to live there.

For footballers, everywhere is cheap.

Therefore footballers don't want to live anywhere.