Oct 17 2009
House hunting (part 1)
Ive had enough of the big city, with its pollution and way too many people. You can easily loose your identity and feel like a number, so I’m off to the seaside if possible. The sites, fresh air and lovely change of scenery are not the only reasons that we have made the trip down here. Our trip around the town is to try and find a new house, where we can begin a new life.
When we arrived in the town, we headed straight for the beach and the noticed that the tide was out along way in the distance. Worthing is an unusual place at a low tide, because the sea goes out much further than the end of the pier. People often dig their fresh baits in the sand and walk the full distance from one side of the pier to the other. i have memories of a trip here with my father years ago on a similar low tide day, and remember him laughing at something. He pointed to a fisherman on the pier, who had dozed off and not noticed that the tide had long ago gone out. There was no water to be seen anywhere, and his float was resting on a small pile of sand!
With our newly purchased copy of the Worthing Echo, we began to look for any local housing Worthing estate agents. One thing that caught my eye was the large section entitled commercial property sussex which seemed to be offering plenty of properties. Perhaps I was seeing the direct results of failing businesses and repossessed business premises that has re-entered the market place.
I was keen on buying an old Victorian town house that could do my DIY, but my wife was not so interested in the idea. She would have been content in a new house outside of the town, and had been concentrating on another area of the paper. Her eye had focused on the adjacent advertisement entitled new homes in West Sussex, which had a wider reach than the town centre.
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