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Originally Posted by dragonflyblu
it sounds wonderful. We have puppet shows here and I suspect they are very funny but they are in german and alas we dont understand the language!
Thabjs for all your thoughts, memories, responses. I have been looking at real estate sites. The council tax is a bit of a mystery and theagents seem to think everyoine knows what the hell it is. I suppose it is a tax we pay instead of the landlord and we pay it monthly??? so I should add council tax to monthly rent to do a budget? I think we can get something 1 bed for about 400-500 a month. I would love to live in a smaller town, have a garden joind a local vege garden allotment.
We wont have a car, unless we get a big bonus! So we may just get bikes. Everything seems so close. a couple of hours ride and we would be ain a new area.
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Council tax is payable to the local authorities for your rubbish removal, fire service, schools etc etc. Most rents dont include this so you must budget extra. You can elect to pay it monthly, usually payable per annum over 10 months.
You will probably also have water rates ... this is normally payable twice a year .... its either a fixed charge or you may have a metered property.