Where couldn't you live?

[Harry Bloomfield]

My home has a main railway line at the back of it. A very large back garden, railway fence, a large width of disused railway land then the main line in a deep cutting. Between the main line and the railway fence used to be a siding and a branch line, all done away with in the 1950's.

We can just about hear the trains, if we were to listen for them. On the far side of the line, in the 1970's, they built some new houses, squeezed in between the line and a busy road. They have tiny back gardens, so the noisy trains pass almost under their rear windows. Getting in and out of their drives, is a nightmare due to the volume of traffic and no chance to park on the road. I would not live there if you paid me.

 

[The Samaritan]

The bottoms line

Where ever I have lived I've like it even when I was a kid and before I bought my own place I loved the house/area we lived in

Since buying my own property, then join properties with my wife and now my OH, always liked the area and when the dynamics of the area change that is not to our liking we have moved.

Most people get to like where they live as they know no different really unless you've fallen from grace and ended up on a crappy council/HA estate or just a crap area.

We need to be grateful that most of us are not living in nor never have in council etc property and we would never want our children, grandchildren to do that either.


Circumstances can change, you could become sick be defrauded or lose your business as you've been too greedy and overstretched yourself.
losing your kjob is not a big deal if you have your health as you could always geet another job, fact.

The gov to win votes now wanting to sell up HA property is wrong but they will go ahead as it is a vote winner and many will make money and many will buy, take out another, 2nd mortgage spend all of the money end up homeless and then taken care of by me the taxpapers.

 

[denso13]

Where ever I have lived I've like it

Even Timor-leste? Good grief...

 

[diy_fun_uk]

When we moved into something imlar a gated property, we felt that everyone was watching us especially when we got the welcome cards. But we moved after a few years as the area was going hill.

tbh I feel a bit like that in the cul-de-sac. It's only a few houses and when doing stuff out the front e.g. gardening, it can be easy to feel a bit self conscious. This is compounded by the fact that, due to the layout, if anyone is going to park in the cul-de-sac, they park immediately in front of my garden. Not helped by everything being open plan i.e. no garden walls etc.

It's definitely another box I'll need ticked if I ever move, hence me preferring the idea of a through road.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

My home has a main railway line at the back of it. A very large back garden, railway fence, a large width of disused railway land then the main line in a deep cutting. Between the main line and the railway fence used to be a siding and a branch line, all done away with in the 1950's.

We can just about hear the trains, if we were to listen for them. On the far side of the line, in the 1970's, they built some new houses, squeezed in between the line and a busy road. They have tiny back gardens, so the noisy trains pass almost under their rear windows. Getting in and out of their drives, is a nightmare due to the volume of traffic and no chance to park on the road. I would not live there if you paid me.

Slightly OT but I read that some councils are buying back ex-council houses, demolishing them and rebuilding with a greater quantity of houses squeezed onto the same piece of land. No doubt properties with smaller rooms and gardens. I was brought up in a council house and also lived in another ex-council. The room and garden sizes often put so-called 'better' houses and estates to shame.

 

[The Samaritan]

tbh I feel a bit like that in the cul-de-sac. It's only a few houses and when doing stuff out the front e.g. gardening, it can be easy to feel a bit self conscious. This is compounded by the fact that, due to the layout, if anyone is going to park in the cul-de-sac, they park immediately in front of my garden. Not helped by everything being open plan i.e. no garden walls etc.

It's definitely another box I'll need ticked if I ever move, hence me preferring the idea of a through road.

Sure, cul-de-sacs are the same only without a gate.
I can 100% relate to your post but be aware, a bit like us living without OSP intially, know no difference and new Audi at the time was parked on a minor main road is what i called it it was wide and not too much traffic and people said you are not worried re your new car
Now, even if we go to family/friends etc, if possible always park on the drive

once you have lived in gated/culdesac, you may not like people walking past your property that you dont recognise and people will let their dogs poo and not clean up possibly.
In a culdesac/gated you never get that.

The road we live in is very quiet hardly see anyone but people come from half a mile away to walk in what they may feel is a nicer area just like we did but when they have a dog it makes me cringe.

As i said you do get used to livign where you live but stepping back is hard.

In a cudlesac you are safer at the bottom top end as crims often break into the first second house or not at all as you have many curtain twitchers.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Sure, cul-de-sacs are the same only without a gate.
I can 100% relate to your post but be aware, a bit like us living without OSP intially, know no difference and new Audi at the time was parked on a minor main road is what i called it it was wide and not too much traffic and people said you are not worried re your new car
Now, even if we go to family/friends etc, if possible always park on the drive

once you have lived in gated/culdesac, you may not like people walking past your property that you dont recognise and people will let their dogs poo and not clean up possibly.
In a culdesac/gated you never get that.

The road we live in is very quiet hardly see anyone but people come from half a mile away to walk in what they may feel is a nicer area just like we did but when they have a dog it makes me cringe.

As i said you do get used to livign where you live but stepping back is hard.

In a cudlesac you are safer at the bottom top end as crims often break into the first second house or not at all as you have many curtain twitchers.

Good points. I have a drive and I'm very used to my car being just outside my front door. If I move, I would never go back to on street parking so it would need to be a property with a drive. If the cul-de-sac I'm in was a bit longer and if I felt more private I'd very likely never move. However I'm not 100% settled.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Good points. I have a drive and I'm very used to my car being just outside my front door. If I move, I would never go back to on street parking so it would need to be a property with a drive. If the cul-de-sac I'm in was a bit longer and if I felt more private I'd very likely never move. However I'm not 100% settled.

I have a short bit of drive, but it's one where it passes by the side of the house and on through to the back garden plus garage. I have space to easily park maybe seven or eight cars, trouble is - they would all have to be in a single line, first in, would have to be last one out.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I have a short bit of drive, but it's one where it passes by the side of the house and on through to the back garden plus garage. I have space to easily park maybe seven or eight cars, trouble is - they would all have to be in a single line, first in, would have to be last one out.

My drive is kind of the same. Can hold 3 cars plus a garage at the end but would have to play musical cars if I had more than 1 in it. My bungalow is 'side on' so my 'front' door is actually just beside my car.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

My drive is kind of the same. Can hold 3 cars plus a garage at the end but would have to play musical cars if I had more than 1 in it. My bungalow is 'side on' so my 'front' door is actually just beside my car.

Not quite as bad as I stated, it is actually a Y, with one arm into the garage and the other passing down the side of the garage. I'm located on the outside side of a bend and so quite narrow at the front, much wider at the rear.

 

[denso13]

In a cudlesac you are safer at the bottom top end as crims often break into the first second house or not at all

Is this the quiz for today?

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Where couldn't I live? Blackburn - based on discussions elsewhere on this forum

 

[ReganAndCarter]

It amazes me the amount of newly built semis that are lounge to lounge instead of front door to front door with living quarters on the outside walls. Must me a cost saving and/or efficiency thing?

Yes, always thought it would make sense on a semis, flats to have bathrooms, hallways, kitchens, etc along the shared middle wall and the rooms that you need to be quiet like bedrooms and lounge on the outside/ends of the house.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Yes, always thought it would make sense on a semis, flats to have bathrooms, hallways, kitchens, etc along the shared middle wall and the rooms that you need to be quiet like bedrooms and lounge on the outside/ends of the house.

I'm eating my words slightly. I've had a look at two sizeable developments going up near me and both feature semi-detached designs that are door to door not lounge to lounge. You do however still see the latter being built.

 

[JP_]

Yes, always thought it would make sense on a semis, flats to have bathrooms, hallways, kitchens, etc along the shared middle wall and the rooms that you need to be quiet like bedrooms and lounge on the outside/ends of the house.

They made them like this in the old days. These are local, I think from 1930s. They also have really big gardens. Many still only have a front garden, although some have turned to driveways now. Probably the most sensible semi design I've seen.