Anyone bought a semi and seriously regret not going for a detached?

moneyistooshorttomention

Errrrm....to earplugs...but you don't expect to have to wear them/pay for them in your own home. Part of the definition of a "home" is only hearing your own sounds in it and desirable/neutral outside sounds (eg birds singing/rain falling/etc).

How can it be a "home", rather than just a place to sleep in/park your belongings in if you are even having to protect yourself against disturbance?

Homes are places you do what you please when you please in the way you please (as long as its compatible with not disturbing other people) and where you feel safe. Any place someone is living that doesn't fit that criteria isn't a "home" by definition I would say.

mjoneseyjones

MITSTM, He just said he works nights.

Even the most spectacularly well sound insulated house, with the kindest, most thoughtful neighbours imaginable is going to experience the noise of people going about their business during the day. That's what people do during regular working hours, and I dread to think what the economy would be like if they were all forced to go about their business on eggshells to avoid upsetting folk like you.

Seriously, between this and the plane noise thread you've really shown yourself to be someone who blames everyone else performing everyday actions (working, catching a flight) for your own lack of adaptation to everyday life.

pinkshoes

We are paying the £100k premium of moving into a detached! Worth every penny

Loopy28

I currently live in a semi, built in 2003.

Overall no issues with noise, can't hear TV/conversations etc. The only times we have heard them is when they have had a party (loud music) and when they did some DIY e.g. drilling.

On a day to day basis, don't really hear them and they are a family with a small child and two teenagers.

banwa

We also went from mid terrace to a detached and could not be happier. We moved over a year ago and am still thankful every day.


And even if we do live in a detached house in a nice village, my husband is one of those scummy blue-collar, motorbike-riding shift-workers and I am one of those annoying ice-scrapers.

padington

Terraced make better investments at the moment by quite a lot. Find nice neighbours and you'll be quids in.

blueybug

We went from a converted barn with 2ft walls to a semi new build.

Our neighbour has some illness that makes her hearing very light shall we say.

Two weeks we have had her moan
About our TV radio us turning a light on the cats meowing
And us driving to work at 5am.

We can hear her dog bark and that's it.

She is being so bloody nasty we are now thinking of selling it after the first year. People that move into terrace or semi need to learn that people need to live.

Oh the best part.... We moved in to find our TV point has been moved on the outer wall not the wall that it was meant to be on just because she told the delvoper that she doesn't want to hear our tv due to noise stressing her out.

Lingor88

Better than living in an apartment filled with students who party until 5am?

After experiencing semis and apartments, I made sure I bought detached.

But hey, I was once one of those students and I'm sure many of you were too. Funny how perspective changes

DRP

neither of the locations I have bought houses in had detached houses - all terraced stock.

Perhaps we've been lucky (or maybe that it isn't a new build that matters?) but no annoying neighbours so far (>12 years and 5 sets of neighbours).

teddysmum

We've been in our 1970s semi for over 40 years and the only problem has been having to be careful only to let go with the stereo, when the ajoined neighbour is out.


Some recently built detached houses hardly warrant the name, being separated by a couple of feet, so I'd go for a larger semi any time.