In Hull you could buy 3 or 4 houses for 100 thousand! I's not too far from the sea, there is loads of folk music here, plenty of Catters and it's only half an hours drive from the world famous Jug Inn, Selby.There are 2 folk clubs in Hull, (Cottingham & Beveerley), plenty of sessions & singarounds, and the cost of livinf is very cheap,(we have our own phone company here, speak as long as you like for 5p, ADSL permanant internet acsess for 15 pound a month).Here is a local estate agent, put 100,000 in the search box thing and it shows you houses up to that price, www.beercockwiles.co.uk .