Would you be put off buying a property facing the cemetery?

joannaspanner

Our house is surrounded on 3 sides by a cemetery- love it!

Itismehonest

Some of the most beautiful places I know are next to churchyards. Manor houses, old rectories & vicarages, church alehouses etc.
The cemetery itself certainly wouldn't put me off buying one of them unless, as others have said, it was used for undesirable antics

sirmosh

tulipz wrote: »

If its just adults, its okay...but if you have children, they might be scared a bit....do you remember how much ghost stories haunted you? In that age, even a small sound will put questions in your mind if you cannot exactly tell where its coming from....too much stress on kids...

Finally, my thoughts - I wouldnt buy.

Children will only grow up to believe in and fear ghosts if you teach them to believe in such nonsense. There is no natural fear of such things. Generally speaking children are a lot less scared of things than adults unless they've been brought up to be fearful.

Providing it was maintained well I'd see it as a massive benefit, they're not going to build a housing estate there any time soon and cemeteries are generally quite considerate neighbours I would say.

billybear1

joannaspanner wrote: »

Our house is surrounded on 3 sides by a cemetery- love it!

Isn't that a Church?

Idiophreak

They've just opened a new cemetery round the corner from me. To be honest, I'm just glad it means nobody can build there for a good long while

serious_saver

I grew up next to cemetery / crematorium and it was great. You're not over looked and no one is ever going to build a development opposite you.

The only problem is that sometimes it can get very busy and difficult to park of there's a big funeral.

xylophone

Put me off? Of course not... provided there's garlic growing in the garden...:eek:

phoebe1989seb

It wouldn't put me off (unless as other posters have said it is a meeting ground for undesirables etc).....when we were buying last year we looked at the details for a couple of churches - one converted already and one not - but the surrounding open space didn't come with the property. This deterred us from viewing, not because it was a graveyard but because consequently the property had no private garden/outside space of its own.

~_Dragonfly_~

I would love to live overlooking a cemetery, better than some of the views you get of roads and such like. We are wanting to start renting this year sooner the better and have found a nice place overlooking a cemetery, lovely trees and birds, only thing putting me off that one is it hasn't got any kind of garden.

Amanita_2

Wouldn't put me off in the slightest in principal. In practice it would depend. Our local cemetary has an outbreak of nasty coloured solar lights "decorating" the graves....