Rents hereabouts are say £1600/1700 per month for a small "4" (i.e. 3) bedroomed house in a side street; that's partly because of the student market in Cardiff, Roath borders on the university quarter. But the mortgage payment for a house like that could be a lot less ----- Original Message ----- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 5:22 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so? Egads -- I have a three-bedroom, 1 and a half bath, kitchen, laundry room, dining room, family room and "front" room (we use it as a music room) and my mortgage pmt. is roughly $700/mo (of course that will be increasing sharply w/ the coming interest rates!). Julie Krueger