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Buying house in a nice area of a rough town
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Theres a house I like, its perfect. Its in a nice estate on the outer part of a very rough town. The stats for the postcode are quite good but I just don't know if I should go ahead or not. Any advice?
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Perhaps if you give a bit more information then you may get some local advice. We live in a town which has some areas that I wouldn't want to live in for free, but the bit that we live in is great and things can change within a few streets.Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These
(he points to some plastic cows on the table) are very small; those (pointing at some cows out of the window) are far away...
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It might be good to look around the area at different times of day (and night)."Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius0
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Perhaps if you give a bit more information then you may get some local advice. We live in a town which has some areas that I wouldn't want to live in for free, but the bit that we live in is great and things can change within a few streets.
Yeah it certainly helps if you know the areas.
tbh anywhere has good and bad bits, just some have more of one than the other. Where I live is on the edge of... very bad, but it's quite nice here. It helps, of course, that I appear to have relocated to the area my Mum grew up, so I know the place rather well, often from street to street. The feral youths act like cats, their territory stops at the main road (they even urinate there to mark it
) but for some reason they move no further.
I often can 'sense' if an area's somewhere I feel comfortable. But I certainly wouldn't dismiss a good area in a bad town. Could well be the ideal scenario (from my perspective) to get the best of all worlds. But tbh, I'd only ever buy once I'd immersed myself in a place so 'knew' it having lived there for a while or visited regularly, just in case I was wrong about an area!0 -
I've lived in a nice affluent area with incredibly horrible neighbors, they had money, but they and their darling children were a nuisance.
On the other hand, i now live in an area i would call "deprived", but i bought the house because its huge, got a bit of land to it and it just felt right. Strangely, the neighbors i have care more about this area than any rich snobby gits i've lived next to before.
At the end of the day, when you close the door, you're in your castle and as long as you like the house, you and your family feel safe in your house and the people around you care about the upkeep of their own properties and area as much as you will do, then you will be fine.0 -
I see the troll is back.0
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The OP is a troll. Have a look at some of its other threads on the forum.0
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