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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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PasturesNew wrote: »I like the layout there as it's flexible. I could see either keeping the ground floor bedroom for guests or a lodger, or using it myself and getting two lodgers upstairs with the "rumpus" being a 2nd living area for lodgers only.
There's plenty of space for separation
I think it's a shame the laundry and kitchen are at opposite corners though. Where laundry = utility there's all sorts of other use that could be made of the space for kitchen stuff.
At £350k it'd be way out of my budget though
In the UK the laundry would be turned into bedroom 2, the top/bottom would be separated into flats.... then two flats would be put on the market.
We'd have a family of 4 in there plus an au pair so no keeping a room spare. If we have a visitor we'd give up our room downstairs and sleep in the rumpus room most likely.0 -
On the link Doozer provided, where I live right now the mean age is 62.6.0
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I think we should be pushing "English" and Englishness - surely anybody visiting, or moving here, would like to feel they've moved to England and it's so English.... isn't that why they came?lostinrates wrote: »I'm a 'right mongrel', am proud of it, but use English and British differently. I chose to live in England and feel 'English' before British. It makes me sad that while other parts of Britain are celebrating their cultural heritage England is lost in amalgamation and when we ask what we have to celebrate we shrug and look embarrassed and say Morris dancers.
I like being bits of everything ( British and well beyond!) but my Britishness feels English. In this country I have only lived in England, and really only know the parts I know. I wish I'd been a tourist here more.0 -
It'll sell for about $600k I reckon.
Thoughts.....?
Looks pretty good, all things considered, but it's pretty far out in the outer suburbs?
What does that mean for the commute, or does it not change things that much from presently?
We're looking at similar distances from the CBD and similar prices 'elsewhere' but have no need to commute daily in rush hour...“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”0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »On the link Doozer provided, where I live right now the mean age is 62.6.
So you're a young 'un, gambolling around the place and bringing the average age down a fair bit.PasturesNew wrote: »IT depends on your lifestyle. If you're not noisy people and mostly the bedrooms are either empty (for guests), or most people have a lot of outside activities and are adults, then noise isn't an issue.
It's only an issue if there's an annoying screamer/laugher whose voice booms and bellows all the time and other people are not family (e.g. sharers/lodgers, etc).
Or you have children - who are just noisy, by definition, really.You disappeared for a time, and in that time we bought a holiday flat.
For about the last 10-20 years new builds have had to incorporate a safe room.
Thanks - OH's relatives don't seem to live in new enough places, I think....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Looks pretty good, all things considered, but it's pretty far out in the outer suburbs?
What does that mean for the commute, or does it not change things that much from presently?
We're looking at similar distances from the CBD and similar prices 'elsewhere' but have no need to commute daily in rush hour...
It's past the suburbs and so not considered commutable by most Australians.
It's on the 'intercity' train rather than the suburban line which means the train is quicker from here than from 20kms further in. And the houses are about $500k cheaper than ones in Sydney beach suburbs!0 -
James got home safely last night...and minus the girlfriend. It was just far too impractical plus she said she couldn't afford to travel this week (personally, I think she caught the vibe from me and made her excuses in a polite manner)
He almost got lost in the transfer across London but remembered my advice that if he got lost, either ask a policeman/woman or an employeee at the tube station, so he asked a policeman who helped him enormously.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
It's past the suburbs and so not considered commutable by most Australians.
It's on the 'intercity' train rather than the suburban line which means the train is quicker from here than from 20kms further in. And the houses are about $500k cheaper than ones in Sydney beach suburbs!
Since my parents sold their London house last Christmas, my Dad's been commuting from Kent, which is quite a trek. He has to drive 13 miles to Ashford, then get the high-speed train to St. Pancras, then get to Chambers, in Holborn.
It would've been a lot worse before they built the high-speed, though, because then it was 80 minutes on the train, and into Charing Cross....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
James got home safely last night...and minus the girlfriend. It was just far too impractical plus she said she couldn't afford to travel this week (personally, I think she caught the vibe from me and made her excuses in a polite manner)
He almost got lost in the transfer across London but remembered my advice that if he got lost, either ask a policeman/woman or an employeee at the tube station, so he asked a policeman who helped him enormously.
He seems to have settled in amazingly quickly - all credit to him! And to you, for bringing him up well, so that he could just make the most of it, both educationally and otherwise....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
It's just started peeing down here. It was peeing down all yesterday evening too.0
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