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carolt wrote: »

Is liking detached houses a status thing, like 4 wheel drives?

To some it might, but to me it's purely about noise, I have 8k's worth of hi-fi gear, I like to listen to my music loud whenever the urge takes me and I don't like upsetting people, which anything other than a detached certainly would do.

I also love piece and quiet when I'm in the mood, therefore I don't like to hear people running up and down stairs, their movies, their music, their telephone ringing or them having sex.....etc.

So for me it's nothing about status, I would take a terraced house anyday if the walls were 18 inches thick, unfortunately double brick is all you get, and to me, that is nowhere near enough.

lostinrates

ad9898 wrote: »

To some it might, but to me it's purely about noise, I have 8k's worth of hi-fi gear, I like to listen to my music loud whenever the urge takes me and I don't like upsetting people, which anything other than a detached certainly would do.

I also love piece and quiet when I'm in the mood, therefore I don't like to hear people running up and down stairs, their movies, their music, their telephone ringing or them having sex.....etc.

So for me it's nothing about status, I would take a terraced house anyday if the walls were 18 inches thick, unfortunately double brick is all you get, and to me, that is nowhere near enough.

Not really status for us either. We ARE noisy . We make music a lot of the time, and when we're not making music we are playing it. Considering I'm also out in the garden/with the animals a lot I'm often carting music around with me too, but keep it quiet. What working the horses music helps, nd then its slightly louder...I need to hear it from about 60 metres away . Luckily its very isolated over there.

Our neighbours kid is learning the drums and our other neighbours adult son is also a hobby musician. When he's home we sometimes all play togather but apart....from our own gardens some distance apart.

For me there is a nother, simple reason: not too many semi detached farms/large small holdings...thouh there are quite a few smaller smallholdings where the house is a semi.

I've never considerd the fact we are ''almost nudists'' a lot of the time either, but I'd have to if we had an overlooked garden!

Edit: our village is ''very'' community, though the houses are not just detached but a long way apart too. We have lots of community events and there is something going on at someone's house/garden/th pub most weeks of one cares to join in and lots of us are friends as well as neighbours. I've never found it hard to join in a community in a city flat or remote detached house.

hethmar

Thing being with an old detached house you tend to get a big garden, which has always been the attraction for us.

michaels

Saw a property new on rightmove yesterday - a bit pricey but looked ok if factoring in 10% off. Rang this AM to arrange a viewing for 6.15 this evening, just had the viewing cancelled as vendor accepted a cash offer this afternoon. On market to accepted cash offer in less than 36 hours - if this is a property slump I would hate to be looking during a boom!

hethmar

There does seem to be some activity probably because people believe they may miss the bottom of the drop. I dont think thats so personally.

Mozette

carolt wrote: »

I've lived in all sorts - detached,terrace, semis, maisonettes.

Liked the detached least as too cut off, wind howling round, children can get out on all sides (!).

Rather like the terraces - save money on heating, as your neighbours keep you warm, and I've never had a neighbour I didn't get on with. Only problem is having to keep bins out the front; with a semi you can park them at the back. Gardens are necessarily enclosed, so good for kids.

Hate bungalows, though. Still, can see the point if you're elderly.

Is liking detached houses a status thing, like 4 wheel drives?

Seems equally pointless to me.

I prefer detached because I hate to be able to hear other people. I'm not sure what my house says about 'status', nothing as far as I'm concerned.

See I'd love a bungalow - no more staggering upstairs when drunk... ideal!

Patchwork_Quilt

The problem with semis is that there is not even a double skin between most of them. When we were doing the rewire in the last house we thought we'd drilled through to the neighbour's living room ... She was a lovely woman, who liked a bottle of wine and a giggle every evening and my husband is a lovely man who was learning to play the guitar. Although we were all very polite, it didn't quite work. We moved to a smaller house that is detached and the relief was enormous. It's not about status.

Also, the house next door to us has been for sale for a year. It needs a lot of work and we think that in this market people who have money are choosing the pristine houses - obviously. Most of the rest of the street seem to be doing up rather than moving

carolt

Interesting what people say about living a terrace and hearing the neighbours/worrying about others hearing them. I live in one currently - can honestly say that I have never heard a sound from any neighbours inside their houses; have heard kids playing/people talking etc in the gardens, but never in an unpleasant way - have lovely neighbours - and surely you'd hear your neighbours in the garden whatever type of house you had?

And I quite like it - part of living in a community.

Oh well, different strokes for different folks and all that.

Quasar

Around here, a residential area of London, there are countless estate agents' boards outside houses. The "To Let" ones get taken down rather quickly, but the "For Sale" ones stay up quite a long time. On my road alone there are two that have been there for 7 months, and a couple more have now been added to one.

carolt wrote: »

Interesting what people say about living a terrace and hearing the neighbours/worrying about others hearing them. I live in one currently - can honestly say that I have never heard a sound from any neighbours inside their houses; have heard kids playing/people talking etc in the gardens, but never in an unpleasant way - have lovely neighbours - and surely you'd hear your neighbours in the garden whatever type of house you had?

And I quite like it - part of living in a community.

Oh well, different strokes for different folks and all that.

I live in a terraced house, well only two houses attached, and I can hear the neighbours even sneeze when they are in the rooms adjacent to mine.

donna-j_2

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

In Scotland an offer is binding and cannot be withdrawn.

Only once the missives are concluded.