Confused about council housing area

Fly_Baby

poppysarah wrote: »

It is.

Our ex-council place is twice the size of anything else we'd viewed. It's got huge rooms, it's solid built and has bigger gardens.


If your attitude is swayed by what other people think in a misguided judgemental way then you need to toughen up.

Just point out it's got more floor space than anything else you've looked at and a bigger garden and is only a band a council tax place too.
(Smaller new builds are all band C!!!)
Or say "I'm very happy with my choice of property and I'm sorry but your attitude is outdated and snobbish."

You are right. My current house IS bigger than what I saw for 30% more and the garden is lovely. The house takes minutes to heat, doesn't have damp (and I had a lot of problems with it in my previous 'better' houses), it's affordable, with a band B too.

westv

I find this site seems reasonably accurate

http://www.uklocalarea.com/

noxon

Which actually caused the whole confusion with the area I live in now - is it bad or is it good?

If it's really so important to you to know what other people think of your area, as you seem to like it but to be discounting your own feelings, then ask them. Ask colleagues and anyone you know in the surrounding areas what their perception is. Then decide if it really matters.

UpMyStreet, as blkbrd posted earlier, has not given you a profile of your area. It has told you something about how areas with the same ACORN score are on average.