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Would a house at the top of a steep road with a steep driveway put you off?
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Brallaqueen wrote: »Can you afford a nice house without a slope or is the slope the reason this nice house is in your price bracket? Its important to know in order to give opinions I think. If you couldn't afford such a nice house otherwise it would not put me off so.much
Say the house is £220k. We can afford to spend more than the cost of this house, say up to around £250k The garden is fantastic. It has the best garden, better than any house up to around £270k that is on the market. Other houses that we can afford will have better parking, on a flat street, however they do not have the large south facing garden that this one has!0 -
If the rest of the house is perfect then I think I'd go for it. It would put me off a bit if I didn't love the house though.0
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Depends very much on your health/age/lifestyle
When you're young/fit/active it's OK but if you're aging/have young kids/visitors etc don't underestimate the added complexities/time/energy needed0 -
The house we moved into a few months back is exactly like that. On top of a steep hill and at the top of a very steep drive!
It was a bit of a struggle to begin with, but we no longer struggle up the hill or the drive so we must be getting fitter! So we have no regrets, no flood worries and the views from the house are spectacular.
When we bought the house, our surveyor commented that it wasn't suitable for the elderly. Made us laugh - our neighbours are in their 50's one side and 74 the other side (and next to him is a 68 year old lady). The couple in the house opposite are pushing 80.0 -
It would depend on what the winter weather is like in that part of the country? As someone above has posted, steep hills can become lethal in a bad winter - this is coming from someone who lives oop north and can be almost house bound once the snow hits due to the hill our estate is off! Fortunately, I can walk to work, although this is still dangerous when icy, it has less of a financial impact than my car sliding into someone else's! If I moved, I would certainly only consider somewhere flat!0
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