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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:05 pm
by Furrtiv
Too true in more ways than one.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:14 am
by UOGMoggie
[quote="MoggyTech"]Forgot to mention before, Insurance premiums are also a post code lottery. quote]
I agree. I noticed something very strange though, I used to live in Binley Woods, nr Coventry (two streets away from where the filming took place for Hyacinth's bungalow in Keeping Up Appearances). Very nice place, outside Coventry, very little crime etc.
We had the same postcode area as Stoke Aldermoor (the council estate where Onslow's house was filmed in Keeping Up Appearances) where a police raid and/or burnt out car was the norm.
There was also 5 miles between the two areas. Very odd.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:41 am
by 8009STEVE
When postcodes first came in, my address was Guilden Morden, South Cambridge.
The post code was SG8. Stevenage Herts.
Up went all insurance premiums.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:04 am
by alex_holden
Yes, I think the risk assessment areas are too large. They don't take into account that a large town can have both low and high risk areas.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:18 am
by paulhumphries
alex_holden wrote:Yes, I think the risk assessment areas are too large. They don't take into account that a large town can have both low and high risk areas.
Another "trick" used by some people is if they live in a high risk area to use a relatives low risk address instead.
Unfortunantley that won't work as it's standard practice by insurers to check the voters list to confirm a person actually lives at that address .
Paul Humphries