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We live in the UK’s coolest neighbourhood – here’s why we’re convinced area will make us millionaires
PEOPLE living in one of the UK’s coolest neighborhoods say it’s a “cracking place” and much cheaper than London.
The once gritty neighborhood of Digbeth is just a stone’s throw from Birmingham and has become a magnet for arty and creative types.
Tulah Searle, Ruby Rai Kieran Botting love the ‘vibe’ in Digbeth[/caption]
The forthcoming arrival of the HS2 train service has ‘ramped up interest’ in the area[/caption]
Street artist Ginger Dan lives in Great Barr but spends most of his hours in Digbeth[/caption]
Digbeth has been dubbed one of the “Coolest Neighbourhood” in the UK by the Sunday Times,.
It boasts disused warehouses converted into designer apartments, independent stores, bars and trendy art venues.
And some residents are convinced that living here could make them millionaires.
Dad-of-two Lee, 48, who has sons aged 18 and 14, told The Sun: “People think Birmingham is not as cool as London but check Digbeth out. It’s a cool place, it’s like Brazil where I once lived.”
Lee says the forthcoming arrival of the high-speed HS2 train service has ramped up interest in the area.
The savvy property guru has already snapped up a bungalow for investment on a corner plot – just 800 meters from the HS2 intended terminal – and near two universities.
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He confessed: “I got it for a good price and I am hoping that I get planning permission to develop the land and maybe build an apartment block for 50 students.
“In years I could double, treble, quadruple the price paid, and I could become a millionaire. It would be my pension.”
Street artist Ginger Dan whose real name is Dan Evans was up a ladder at the entrance to the “must-see” Red Brick Market, putting the finishing strokes to his new eye-catching mural.
He said: “Digbeth draws people here – it’s the creative quarter of Birmingham.
“My job is to embody this amazing market as an illustration and turn the outer walls into a giant mural.”
Dan lives in nearby Great Barr but spends most of his hours in Digbeth.
He added: “It’s a cracking place, with good pubs and spots, performance art and galleries, and tattoo studios.”
He stressed that he was just one small part of the street art scene, and said many others should also take credit for their work – transforming dull red bricks into colourful and striking murals.
Carrie – who is responsible for running the market – said: “It is for everyone, a little bit alternative and there is no age range.”
The busy market trader runs two of the many and varied stalls, taxidermy and gothic fashion.
While serving customers at the site – which used to be an old button factory – she added: “It is for everyone, a little bit alternative and there is no age range.”
The 40-year-old said: “I absolutely love it here and the house prices are a lot cheaper than London.
“I lived in London for six months and for the amount I was paying in rent for one room in a shared house I can rent a three-storey, five bed Victorian house with a massive garden just outside Digbeth for £1,100 a month.”
Carrie – who has managed the market for two years – said: “Digbeth is for eclectic people and it’s nothing like your typical High Street.
“The appeal is independent shops and alternatives and not having anything the same.
“The place is always buzzing with poetry nights, drink and draw nights, and The Ruin pub is the best.
“There are bands, dining clubs and bottomless brunches, ball pits and baseball batting cages.”
Among the crowds of visitors, a cool teen trio caught our eye.
Tulah Searle, 17, a barista and waitress from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, gushed: “It’s so cool here – the atmosphere and people.
“It would be great to live here – maybe one day!”
Her pal Ruby Rai, 17, an events co-ordinator from Leamington Spa, added: “We always come to Digbeth for clothes shopping. It’s better than all the places back home.”
Kieran Botting, 16, a supermarket sales adviser from Stratford, chipped in: “I love the vibe here, it’s the best.
“It beats the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham.
“It’s a nice place to be and be seen.”
Old warehouses are being transformed into cool spaces and designer apartments[/caption]
He said it is a “must-visit.”
From the legendary Custard Factory full of hip and trendy bars to Birmingham’s oldest pub, The Old Crown, and Digbeth Dining Club, plus street art, it is clear to see how the former industrial heartland has won over a new generation.
Molly Brockhouse, a supervisor at The Old Crown, said: “We all love Digbeth, it is quite quirky and people are different.
There’s a vibe, we’re a good crowd!”
Molly, 23, from Solihull, West Mids, added: “There are a lot of decent shops and art classes, and it’s better than Broad Street.”
Her friend and fellow bar supervisor Scarlett Ball, 23, said: “There’s a great scene and everyone knows everyone.
“Digbeth’s up and coming and a very desired place to live and the prices are not outrageous.
“All the buildings are interesting.
“I say to my grandma what a cool place Digbeth is now and she can’t believe it saying: ‘What the Hell are you saying about Digbeth, it’s a dump, isn’t it?’”
Property director Lee Blake who lives on the outskirts but is investing within the neighbourhood, believes the “cost of living crisis” is drawing more Londoners to the area.
While working on his laptop in the courtyard garden of The Old Crown, he told our team: “It’s a lot cheaper living here than in London and the cost of living crisis is attracting new people.
“It’s easy to work from home now, or the pub, or commute to the office in London.”
According to property website Rightmove, a Birmingham home costs an average of £259,821 – almost £400,000 less than in London.
And Digbeth has reggae and pop links as a selling point.
Landmark pub the Eagle and Tun was made famous by UB40 and was the setting for the band’s top-charting Red Red Wine video.
But the Victorian boozer is now being demolished to make way for the controversial high-speed line.
Molly Brockhouse, supervisor at The Old Crown pub and her friend and fellow supervisor Scarlett Ball[/caption]
Property director Lee Blake lives on the outskirts but is investing in the area[/caption]
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After spending 20 years simulating reality, the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to a new one: being millionaires
Millionaire’s row once compared to Champs-Élysées that became a slum before destruction
Inside ‘creepy’ abandoned millionaire’s mansion ‘frozen in time’ after property tycoon owner disappeared overnight
A PHOTOGRAPHER has shared new pictures inside an abandoned millionaire’s mansion, left to rot after its property tycoon owner disappeared overnight.
The state of the once-grand eight-bedroom manor house near Kings Langley in Hertfordshire was first reported on back in 2020 after creepy pictures captured its faded glory.
The home in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, was once a luxury mansion[/caption]
Today the once-grand home is in a sorry state[/caption]
Inside, the home has been left to fall apart[/caption]
It was later revealed by The Sun Online that the abandoned mansion was owned by a Greek property tycoon, Athanasios Tachmintzis.
His brother-in-law Gordon Meiklejohn said Mr Tachmintzis led such a mysterious life that he wasn’t sure what he did for work – despite seeing wads of cash at his lavish home.
Tachmintzis, 72, reportedly enjoyed a millionaire’s lifestyle from his “property” investments which meant they never saw him going out to work, his family claimed.
Now, a photographer has taken new pictures showing the further sad decline of the house, which would once have been a dream mansion.
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The photographer, who runs the Facebook page Afraid Of The Dark Paranormal, told The Sun Online she visited the mansion a week ago with a pal.
“We were trying to be really quiet on entry,” she said. “We didn’t want to upset any locals. The grass and outside were very overgrown, and animals and wildlife had taken over the garden.”
The photographer said that it was clear the house hadn’t “been maintained In a very long time,” and that they were able to enter through an open door
“It had a very strange feeling to it,” she added. “The house looks like it’s been tipped upside down either just careless vandals or someone looking for something.
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Although the house still seems “frozen in time,” with toiletries in the bathroom and cooking utensils in the kitchen, it appears to have been trashed by vandals.
“The inside of the house has been spray painted and vandalised all the ornaments are smashed, and all items of furniture have also been ill-treated,” she said.
Bizarrely, the photographer said that certain valuable items remain in one piece inside the house, such as a beautiful piano and a large TV.
Creepily, in one doorway, a black cocktail dress is still hanging, while rubbish has been strewn over the floors.
Upstairs we felt like we were being watched
Inside, she said the house had an unsettling feeling.
“Upstairs we felt like we were being watched, we were trying to be quiet and look at all the stuff whilst taking pictures,” she said.
“Beautiful bookshelves had been left, some of them looked brand new. The rooms had completely been ransacked. And all the clothes were strewn on the floor.”
She added: “A couple of wardrobes had clothes hanging. To be honest the house was creepy.
“There were no vehicles left on the grounds. But there were cameras on every corner of the house.”
Drug paraphernalia has been left behind in the house by vandals[/caption]
The former owner reportedly left wads of cash lying around[/caption]
Much of the furniture has been trashed[/caption]
A black cocktail dress hangs creepily in a door frame[/caption]
Certain expensive items such as a TV remain untouched[/caption]
A piano is also intact, but spraypainted[/caption]
Among the items apparently left behind by vandals was a bong used for smoking cannabis, left on top of a roulette board.
Neighbours of Mr Tachmintzis were puzzled as to why he and his family had fled in such a hurry at the time.
When urban explorers first went into the house, they found designer clothes, a full dishwasher, and even a game of chess left unfinished.
A number of expensive cars including a rusted Bentley were left outside in the overgrown garden, although the photographer says they have since been removed or stolen.
At the time it was reported that the property tycoon had bought the house in 1999, living there for almost two decades with his wife and five children.
But in 2017, he left suddenly with his family, leaving the mansion 20 miles from central London to rot.
He was married to his wife, Sharon, who was born in north Wales, for 32 years before she tragically died of cancer in May 2004.
Mr Tachmintzis, known as Thanos, was reportedly so concerned about security at the expensive home that he once had guards on the gate and kept Dobermans for protection.
But when he fled the house, he doesn’t appear to have made any preparations to protect his belongings.
One neighbour told MailOnline: “I ride my horse down the road every day and all of a sudden I realised around three years ago that the people there had just disappeared.
“I just thought at first that they had gone away somewhere and would then come back – but nobody did. It is most strange.
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“At first the gates were just shut and then a padlock and chain appeared on them. You could just see the grass getting longer and longer and growing around the cars.
“Nobody around here has a clue what happened to them and why they just upped and left. It is a real mystery.”
The kitchen still has utensils and a microwave in it[/caption]
Toiletries were even left behind in the bathroom[/caption]
A towel in the sink of one of the home’s many bathrooms[/caption]
The kitchen has been tagged by vandals[/caption]
Bizarrely, a telescope was left in the house[/caption]
A Bentley once rusted in the overgrown garden, but has since been removed or stolen[/caption]
Neighbours go ballistic at apocalypse-obsessed millionaire’s nuclear bunker plans
AN apocalypse-obsessed millionaire has angered neighbours with her plans for a vast nuclear bunker under her mansion.
Lavinia Jacobs, 42, wants a 15-room fallout shelter with air-tight blastproof doors.
A planning application says: “The work involves the excavation, forming and casting of a reinforced concrete nuclear bunker basement.”
The shelter would include four bedrooms, a kitchen and storage rooms, a study and an access tunnel to her £10million property in Rye, East Sussex.
The project is set to cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and take months to complete.
Ms Jacobs — whose late father was Swiss chocolate mogul Klaus Jacobs — is believed to already have a nuclear bunker at another of her homes in Switzerland.
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The application relates to Grade II listed Leasam House — which was built in 1800 and is set in 57 acres.
It was submitted in June, after Vladimir Putin’s Russia troops invaded Ukraine and the threat of nuclear war increased. No decision has been made yet.
Janet Warren wrote on Rother district council’s website that potential damage to the house, garden and environment “far outweighs any doubtful useful purpose the development will have”.
One local told The Sun: “All the building equipment and transport needed to carry this out will go right by our front door.”
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Another said: “We never see Lavinia here.
“I suppose she must be worried what Putin is up to.
“I’m not sure he’ll have Rye in his sights though.”
Ms Jacobs was approached for comment yesterday.
How Millionaires are made in Bear Market:
You must have heard people saying buy bitcoin at this price or DCA your bags. But what does it actually means and how do we start accumulating in Bear market? In this article I will share 2 techniques that will help you in your journey towards a million dollar.
First off when you’ve figured out that we are witnessing a crash Do Not Panic. Control your emotions and start rational thinking on how to handle the situation. If market capitulates and your portfolio goes in a massive drawdown, Then first thing you should do is to not Panic sell. Then do a bit of research and figure out whether the coin you are holding is worth risking more. If you’ve figured out that the coin has strong fundamentals and is likely to survive the bear market then start doing DCA. Accumulate the coin is parts and keep some of your funds in hand always for worst market scenario. Now you may ask, What is DCA?
Dollar Cost Average (DCA):
Dollar cost averaging is dividing your Funds and buying in intervals when the market is moving downwards or sideways. Make a percentage plan to divide your portfolio that when the market will for example dips 20% you will put in the first amount to DCA. This will average out your buying price and when the market recovers back to your original buying price. You will be in much better profits due to averaging out on every dip. Second method is SIP.
Systematic investment plan (SIP):
In this method you don’t really care about the price of the asset you want to accumulate. If you’re a person who’s on a regular job then this technique would suite you to make your bear market portfolio. Based on monthly basis whenever you receive funds. Invest a decided % from your paycheck in to the asset that you want to accumulate. This should be done in bear market when the price is continuously dropping or going sideways. Make a target that you want to hold x amount of coins for this x of time period be it few years or the next cycle.
SIP should be started when the price of the asset has fallen down atleast 50–80% from it’s previous ATH. Before starting to invest Do your research and get confident knowing them that the project’s fundamentals would survive and come back stronger in the next cycle. These are the two techniques that can be used in the bear market to yield the best returns for the next cycle.
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