Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Now you are just showing off.

Pays for itself with the horse agisting (whatever that is).

40 acres 45 minutes from downtown capital city for what would get you a 3 bed terrace in a fair bit of central London.

This is a very nice area. Think prime bits of the North Downs if the North Downs were a National Park. Perhaps a place like Shere or Gomshall if you know them (and if you don't they're well worth a day trip!).

Apparently it's letting other people keep their horses on your land.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Luckily DH found this hilarious.


We had a decent night.

The DH glass shattered in his hand cutting it just a bit though. Nothing major, and I think they were relieved we found it funny.

I hope that wasn't when you told him about my comment on your 'tat' that his hand clenched so tightly the glass smashed....

Also I assume they will invite you to eat there for free next time to make up

vivatifosi

Gen, just saw pics of the house on the slope. My first thought was... that drive would be a nightmare to get out of in the snow (sorry couldn't resist).

But in all seriousness it looks quite wooded. What's the fire risk there?

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

Now you are just showing off.

Pays for itself with the horse agisting (whatever that is).

40 acres 45 minutes from downtown capital city for what would get you a 3 bed terrace in a fair bit of central London.

If that. Where I used to live they have just put a 2 bed conversion flat on the market for £750,000.

I think Sydney itself is similarly priced to London - average property is something like 10/11x average salary or something like that, but Gen's links show that prices drop off much more quickly once you get outside the city and its suburbs, presumably because there is a a lot of space and it's a long way to the next city.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I first remarked this when Michelle, single mother, was doing a course and working at the cafe .... and yet raised a mortgage on a big house (3 beds) on the Square.

Also, it doesn't matter how little they earn they all live in nice places and have money to go out and socialise in the pub/eat at the cafe and go out on the town and use taxis.

It's not just Eastenders .... they do it on Caronation Street and in Emmerdale too... and even Home & Away in Australia sees all the teens at school having plenty of cash to be spending it at the cafe after school every day!

The most unrealistic thing about eastenders is that they all know each other and everyone talks to their neighbours whereas in reality most Londoners just scowl at their neighbours and only spend about 12 minutes a day in the same area as their house.

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

If I had a little more money I'd go for something more like this:

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Why would you want all of the land?

We only have 3/4 acre and when we needed grazing we rented adjacent fields or borrowed them.

I came to realise land is hard work or costly if maintaining fences/ditches/cutting/baling so there needs to be some utility.

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

This is a very nice area. Think prime bits of the North Downs if the North Downs were a National Park. Perhaps a place like Shere or Gomshall if you know them (and if you don't they're well worth a day trip!).

Apparently it's letting other people keep their horses on your land.

Aah location.

neverdespairgirl

Spirit wrote: »

Why would you want all of the land?

We only have 3/4 acre and when we needed grazing we rented adjacent fields or borrowed them.

I came to realise land is hard work or costly if maintaining fences/ditches/cutting/baling so there needs to be some utility.

My parents have about 90 acres, 70 around the house, and 20 over the road.


The 20 acres over the road they use as wild meadowland, with carefully-laid hedges and lots of newly-planted oak and beech trees, and lots of bees (earlier this year, about 6 different swarms). The 70 acres around the house is vegetable garden and orchard (3 acres in total), grazing for horses, hay, and the rest of the fields are used by two neighbouring farmers, for barley, rape, hay and sheep.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

We had a decent night.

The DH glass shattered in his hand cutting it just a bit though. Nothing major, and I think they were relieved we found it funny.

So successful date night then for the inrates.:jWhat did you eat/drink?

Our fete supper was lovely - I considerably underestimated the participants - 145 of us ate lasagne together, and we drank fizzy water and Rioja.

Wonder how the Doozer dinner went?

OH is off shooting today - his first shoot of teh season, it is some distance away in LiRs direction.

He set off about 7ish and did not have much of a packed lunch to take as meat needed cooking and bread baking, did not want soup so he will have had to stop and buy a pasty and something.

One of the guns takes a camping stove and produces casseroles for reheating for himslef and a pal. On one occassion taking dumplings from a tupperware box and adding them to the dish. He is apparently on the shoot today so I hope his lunch is not as extravagent, or OH is going to feel deprived.

Yesterday evening I thought he barely had the means to fill a hip flask as we were almost out of sloe gin beacause we did not make any last year. Mr S then rummage in the pantry and found a kilner jar of the stuff so I will decant that today.

I am going to do some housework and I have a beautitians appointment. OH asked why I was going (it is for waxing:eek:) and I told him I was not having any treatment, only there to provide advice on how to get this look. His response..."what are you going to do, send them across the road to the bakers?"

He may find his dinner is in the dog tonight.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My parents have about 90 acres, 70 around the house, and 20 over the road.


The 20 acres over the road they use as wild meadowland, with carefully-laid hedges and lots of newly-planted oak and beech trees, and lots of bees (earlier this year, about 6 different swarms). The 70 acres around the house is vegetable garden and orchard (3 acres in total), grazing for horses, hay, and the rest of the fields are used by two neighbouring farmers, for barley, rape, hay and sheep.

As I said a lot of work and expense. Sounds lovely though.