Most offputting thing

artbaron

Personally I'd be put off by a maggot-ridden corpse propped up in the living room in front of Sky Sports.

BritAbroad

The main areas of the house such as the living room and kitchen being overlooked.
Anywhere that says 2.4 children - if there's trampolines, basketball hoops or kids playing in the street I'm heading the other way.
Anywhere within half a mile of a school.
Parking issues.
Newbuild estates - I don't have a problem with new build houses, just their location!
When buying our current house, we vetoed many because of bad kitchens. A new kitchen over here is in the region of $50k, and we really didn't want to have to spend that kind of money at the outset.

Fraise

• Busy main road
• Rough area
• No greenery around
• Poor transport links & miles away from nearest train station or tube
• Chavvy houses/neighbours
• Dirty street with litter
• Grafitti
• Double yellow/red lines outside along road
• Small garden
• Ugly views from windows
• Tiny bedrooms that feel claustrophobic
• Dated bathroom fitted with cheap suite and fittings
• Very small bathroom where you have to squeeze by the bath
• Bathroom so small that only a small narrow bath can be fitted
• No double glazing
• No central heating
• Open plan kitchen/lounge
• No character i.e. new builds
• No space to expand or add extra rooms if wanted

Davesnave

Fraise wrote: »

• Busy main road
• Rough area
• No greenery around
• Poor transport links & miles away from nearest train station or tube
• Chavvy houses/neighbours
• Dirty street with litter
• Grafitti
• Double yellow/red lines outside along road
• Small garden
• Ugly views from windows
• Tiny bedrooms that feel claustrophobic
• Dated bathroom fitted with cheap suite and fittings
• Very small bathroom where you have to squeeze by the bath
• Bathroom so small that only a small narrow bath can be fitted
• No double glazing
• No central heating
• Open plan kitchen/lounge
• No character i.e. new builds
• No space to expand or add extra rooms if wanted

So, which one was the 'thing?'

J_i_m

BritAbroad wrote: »

Anywhere that says 2.4 children - if there's trampolines, basketball hoops or kids playing in the street I'm heading the other way.

With not being particularly fond of the activity and noise children make myself, I can fully appreciate being reluctant to live in a house which backs on to the sports/playground of a school since you can hear that level of noise from about a mile away. BUT isn't it just a little bit impractical to turn the other way when you see evidence of a "2.4 children" familiy living in the same street?

You'd be seriously narrowing your range of choice if you did and what happens if such a young family move into the same street as you when you're settled? Are you going to sell up and leave?

As "turn offs" go this is one which would rule you out of pretty much all of the available market.

bouicca21

Schools are empty most of the year and most people would be out at work during play times. I wouldn't like to be too close to a secondary school entrance - too much litter. But the sound of happy children playing at primary school is surely a joyful one.

celyn90

J_i_m wrote: »

With not being particularly fond of the activity and noise children make myself, I can fully appreciate being reluctant to live in a house which backs on to the sports/playground of a school since you can hear that level of noise from about a mile away.

My house backs onto a recreation ground and is opposite a large primary school. Apart from idiots parking in the bus stop at 8.45 am and 3.15 pm and snarling the road up (because it's only for a minute...) we have no problems at all. It's insanely quiet

Mind you, I have the sort of neighbours who'd be onto the police if anybody even cracked open a can of beer in the rec :rotfl::rotfl:

I'd rather that than have neighbours or a road across the back of the garden though; it gives the impression of it being hugely open even in the centre of the city and the school is shut all summer

The only things that really made us look elsewhere was - being close to small clusters of shops, flags and garden junk, poor parking and one house we looked at, a mahoosive dog was going ape crazy in next doors garden. I really hate dogs (sorry!), so that was an immediate no no (and yes, I know, anyone could move in/get a pet, but I'm not going to move next door to one out of choice - my parents neighbours had dogs and they wreaked the fences and trashed my parents garden, and the previous one used to jump over on the attack if we were playing outside)

J_i_m

bouicca21 wrote: »

Schools are empty most of the year and most people would be out at work during play times. I wouldn't like to be too close to a secondary school entrance - too much litter. But the sound of happy children playing at primary school is surely a joyful one.

Not everyone likes children and similarly not everyone works on a Mon-Fri 9-5 basis, so not everyone is at work during play times. Indeed if you do night work then play time becomes a nightmare when you're trying to sleep.

maggy50

We have a primary school nearby and it is not a problem .
The worse noise pollution we encountered at our previous home was an American football pitch just 100 yards to the rear of our property.
Training and match days was bedlam whistling , chanting and the noise of the spectators a nightmare during the summer months.
So beware of sportsfield or park areas.

I_have_spoken

Pylon and high-voltage wires passing nearby
Poor 3G reception
Kerb-crawling along street