Yep - goat is coming.
Living in york, the goat has caused a few problems. There is some guild that is big here which built a lot of houses over the years and they put all sorts of weird cluases in the deeds like not being allowed goats, chickens or "more than 6 ducks".
There was one house we really liked, but the goat would have had to go to the butchers as it had those cluases in the deeds, so after many tears, I gave in and got a different one. >:( >:( >:(
The house we're going to has a huge and desolate back garden - it's not been maintained fro a couple of years, so the goat is going to have a grand old time sorting that out! y spring he will have eaten much of it down, and I can get on with restoring the garden. Saves me having to hack about in it all!
It's actually worked out OK with the house buying etc. Mortgages etc have been really easy to sort out. It would seem that as long as your earning and have a good credit history, and money for a deposit, it's *easier* now to get a mortage than it was at the hieght of the boom. Took me less than 48 hours to go from looking at prices on the net to having it completely arranged.