Affordable Housing

ash28

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Decent?

Looks like some kind of portacabin inside.

And the walls look really thin. Either that, or they are some seriously thick windows. The windows seem to stick out on the outside, and stick out on the inside...thats without a windowledge.

Leads me to wonder what on earth the walls are made of. As I said, it's like a caravan type window.

Edit: No recess for the doors either. So it IS caravan / portacabin material used.

Hardly my definition of decent!

They are system built houses - not caravan/portacabin material.

The houses are around 50 years old - the main walls are timber frame clad in timber boarding, metal lath and harling, internally are insulation material and plaster boarding.

Just because a house is non standard construction doesn't mean it's not decent. Some of them have been around for a very long time without any problems.

They are definitely mortagable - they may be a problem for some lenders, certainly not all.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Graham_Devon wrote: »

It stands to reason Hamish that if living IN the city can take 30 mins to an hour to get across it, living outside the city, where you have probably 30 miles to the city, is going to take you longer....you still have to get across and through it. Jeez.
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I'm glad you raised that point Graham, as the answer is quite interesting.

When we first moved into the city from the Shire a few years ago, my wife worked at a company in Aberdeen. She was used to commuting 45 minutes each way, and was looking forward to only having to drive 5 miles to work.......

Until she realised that the few miles across town actually took almost as long, but with far less scenery and much more stressful traffic.

Of course it would be daft to (for example) buy a house on the south side of aberdeen, commute 40 minutes to Aberdeen, then spend 45 minutes crossing Aberdeen, then drive another few miles to an industrial estate north of Aberdeen. Or vice versa.

Just as it would be daft to buy a house in Barnett or Finchley if you worked at Gatwick Airport, for example.

Fortunately, affordable housing exists in every direction out of Aberdeen, not just the South side. Presumably a person would choose to live on the side of town that they worked.....

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

ExploitationIsFun wrote: »

Hamish why don't you come here to central London and then try finding affordable houses??.

Why would I want to live somewhere as awful as that?

But putting that aside for a moment, I did mention earlier in the thread that 80% of the people in Britain do not live in London and the South East.....

So whilst I do accept that London prices can be eye wateringly expensive, even for a housing bull, I don't see that as being a problem for 80% of the population.

wageslave

Presumably the 20% who make the supreme sacrifice of living in a city where you can't even wash yourself clean with the water never mind drink it are rewarded with higher salaries and can therefore afford more expensive housing

Exocet

I don't understand this. Some village in God knows where has a property for sale. It is 40 miles from Aberdeen and.. what exactly? Is it a sign of good times, bad times, or in between times? Is it cheap, middling or expensive? I don't know what the average wage is, what this house would have been ten years ago, or what it is likely to be worth in another ten years. I don't know Laurencekirk, have never heard of it, and when I google earthed it it doesn't even have an infocus picture of the place. Has it got a Tesco, or a school? Is it populated by one single inbred family who have lived there for threee hundred years, or is it the new Aberdeen commuter belt? Is this property for sale because the BTL landlord is getting out, or the previous owner went mad, or they are upsizing or downsizing?

What does it all mean?

wageslave

Exocet wrote: »

I don't understand this. Some village in God knows where has a property for sale. It is 40 miles from Aberdeen and.. what exactly? Is it a sign of good times, bad times, or in between times? Is it cheap, middling or expensive? I don't know what the average wage is, what this house would have been ten years ago, or what it is likely to be worth in another ten years. I don't know Laurencekirk, have never heard of it, and when I google earthed it it doesn't even have an infocus picture of the place. Has it got a Tesco, or a school? Is it populated by one single inbred family who have lived there for threee hundred years, or is it the new Aberdeen commuter belt? Is this property for sale becuase the BTL landlord is getting out, or the previous owner went mad, or they are upsizing or downsizing?

What does it all mean?

Well if it isn't instantly available on google earth it is obviously a down market Brigadoon.

Tescos being the benchmark of civilisation obviously.

Incest? I doubt it is that exciting a place.

It means it isn't Eastbourne

Exocet

wageslave wrote: »

Well if it isn't instantly available on google earth it is obviously a down market Brigadoon.

Tescos being the benchmark of civilisation obviously.

Incest? I doubt it is that exciting a place.

It means it isn't Eastbourne

I don't know what Brigadoon is. When I say Tescos I mean a shop where you can buy general stuff. If you are driving back from Aberdeen for example where do you buy stuff? Maybe it just has one of those little village shops that are never open or have a row of out of date tins on the shelves.

As for incest. Some of these little hamlets quite often are populated by one large family. Been there for years, resent outsiders. Kind of important if you are thinking of moving in.

Eastbourne I have heard of. South coast, warm, civilised, genteel. Sounds fab. Hamish - find me an affordable quality place in Eastbourne. Ta.

edit: I googled Brigadoon. Yeah, that's probably what I was thinking.

wageslave

Exocet wrote: »

I don't know what Brigadoon is. When I say Tescos I mean a shop where you can buy general stuff. If you are driving back from Aberdeen for example where do you buy stuff? Maybe it just has one of those little village shops that are never open or have a row of out of date tins on the shelves.

As for incest. Some of these little hamlets quite often are populated by one large family. Been there for years, resent outsiders. Kind of important if you are thinking of moving in.

Eastbourne I have heard of. South coast, warm, civilised, genteel. Sounds fab. Hamish - find me an affordable quality place in Eastbourne. Ta.

edit: I googled Brigadoon. Yeah, that's probably what I was thinking.

Google is our friend. Shall I use it to check on crime levels in the genteel south?

I doubt they are living on out of date Frey Bentos pies half an hour from Aberdeen.

Exocet

God I'm bored.

I checked out some other houses in Laurencekirk - it's beautiful. Bit pricey though. Maybe that hut is a bargain.

Here's a link.

http://www.nestoria.co.uk/laurencekirk/property/buy

Interesting it seems to indicate that 1 bed properties have dropped 15% in a month? Scroll down.. right hand side.

edit: Nearest shops look miles away. Just as I thought.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Exocet wrote: »

Nearest shops look miles away. Just as I thought.

I take it you must mean some other "nearest shops", rather than the 5000 sq ft supermarket in the middle of Laurencekirk then....:D




But there's a Tesco , Lidl and Summerfield within 10 to 15 minutes, (Brechin and Montrose) and two Tesco's and an Asda on the dual carriageway between Aberdeen and there.