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HAMISH_MCTAVISH
HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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in Debate House Prices & the Economy
7 foot wide house for sale.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366480/Half-house-better-At-just-7ft-wide-smallest-homes-Britain-goes-sale.html
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  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    A mere £95,000.

    article-1366480-0B2E140500000578-564_306x586.jpg

    Cheap at twice the price. :)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    Word is out you are looking to buy it?
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,076 Forumite
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    I can look out of the windows at the front of my usual home and see a house much like that. It's even detached. A family of four lives there!
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    A family of four lives there!

    Must be a Sylvanian family;).
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  • the.ciscokid
    the.ciscokid Posts: 273 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    A mere £95,000.

    article-1366480-0B2E140500000578-564_306x586.jpg

    Cheap at twice the price. :)

    Ahh, so that is what ~4 x the average annual salary buys you.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    the.ciscokid wrote: »
    Ahh, so that is what ~4 x the average annual salary buys you.

    Like I said, bargain.

    Give it 20 years and four times the average salary will buy you this.....

    static_20caravan_202.jpg

    Which isn't as good a deal as it seems, because you'll still have to pay the caravan park an exorbitant rent to park it there as well. ;)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • PasturesNew
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    It's better than a flat though.

    The kitchen's bigger than in many houses I've seen.... it's about the size of my friend's kitchen in her 4-bed detached that was built in 99/00.

    305 square feet http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-18230748.html

    Shame it's only a shower room though, no bath.
  • Loughton_Monkey
    Loughton_Monkey Posts: 8,913 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    Went to the Ideal Home Exhibition today.

    The houses for which many were queuing all day to view were not much bigger.

    Made of plywood too. So bad, I reckon they'll demolish them in a couple of weeks.
  • PasturesNew
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    Loughton_Monkey wrote: »
    Went to the Ideal Home Exhibition today.

    The houses for which many were queuing all day to view were not much bigger.

    Made of plywood too. So bad, I reckon they'll demolish them in a couple of weeks.
    The Ideal Home would cost 1/4 as much, give 2-3x more space, more parking and a bigger garden.
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