The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

Ok, GDB, now you just have to tell us why it's called Stiffkey! :j

GDB2222

https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/356253/The-sad-story-of-the-Vicar-of-Stiffkey


A nice bit of salacious gossip for you. Not that I'm interested in such things, of course.

That picture above is the main A road round the coast, by the way.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

The thing with older houses is, if they have been properly modernised in the last 20 or 30 years, they shouldn't give you any grief, and older houses are in the more traditional type of residential roads where you won't get the sort of grief you been getting.

If they've had a new roof, and been replumbed and rewired, and most have had new windows put in, they are probably more solid and more soundproof than a lot of newer houses.

Have a look at some that say they've been modernised. You might be nicely surprised, and get all the features you want, too. No harm in looking, after all.

Interwar houses, or even older Edwardian ones.
(Mine's late Victorian, and it has survived bomb blast in the war and all sorts! 128 years old and still going strong! )

(Touch wood! )

Yes, but few have been done - and, those done, are often "over done" and hit the market at a premium price... very few completely done with a new roof etc.

I don't really "want a house", I'd be more comfortable with a little bungalow as I'd be less fearful of roof/wind/tiles issues and clearing guttering etc. One storey is nice like that

Just seen one and added to the list, 270, very dated, but could be worked on. Easy room for en-suite (already has a window), conservatory, needs new flooring throughout (which, at that price, is not a problem as there's money for it and the flooring I prefer no house has at present) ... so that's on the list. Think "Ex council style, 1930s"... but at 270 there'd be enough in the pot to do everything.... no garage though and the conservatory's more of a lean-to sunroom.

Railway line at bottom of garden, but it's a long enough garden and trains don't bother me.... quite cheery (er, once I've checked what sort, what speed, how often and if I'll have 300 faces peering in every 10 minutes).

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I have no idea about the area. Do you get more house for your money a few miles inland from the coast?

Yes ... because you need to use the car every time to do anything or go anywhere. Inland it gets a bit grim... lots of horse-owning people ... but I mean the sort of people who keep a shabby old horse in their 20'x30' front garden of their ramshackle 1930s semi...

There's "all sorts of nonsense" goes on in some of the cheaper areas.

The trouble here is that the growth pattern of housing was mostly built around industrial lands, so it's not a string of pretty villages; you simply end up in a non-descript house, in a non-descript road, in a place that has a local name but it's not a "village"... just houses/estates either side of the 40mph roads/dual carriageways that are the road infrastructure that one would find in a port.

GDB2222 wrote: »

...a mile from the beach, but that oddly limits our choice of which bits of the coastline we can visit. The coast road is very slow, especially in peak holiday season.

There are peculiarities here, geographically I am trying to stay close to a big marshy area... outside of that you might as well live in your car as you're going nowhere quite often

Fact is ... everywhere has its issues doesn't it - and when househunting we can never see anything we actually like/could live with .. until we're bent over a barrel and have to choose. You're lucky - I bet the Missus did your choosing

You just had to learn when to nod, agree, be in attendance, smile... pay

Pyxis

Yes, railways can be ok.

I once had a bedsit in a house whose garden backed onto a railway embankment, and it had fast trains and slow trains go along it, and they were no problem.

I stopped hearing them in the end.

As you say, quite a comforting sound, on the whole.

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes, railways can be ok.

I once had a bedsit in a house whose garden backed onto a railway embankment, and it had fast trains and slow trains go along it, and they were no problem.

I stopped hearing them in the end.

As you say, quite a comforting sound, on the whole.

I'd rather have a railway than a road at the bottom of the garden.

"I am trying to stay close to a big marshy area... " - Mosquitoes!!!! :eek:

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'd rather have a railway than a road at the bottom of the garden.

"I am trying to stay close to a big marshy area... " - Mosquitoes!!!! :eek:

Well, probably not marshy .... I've never had a problem with mosquitoes... so maybe I should keep an eye on that. Maybe not as the water will be salty/tidal. It's very shallow, probably barely tidal at all....

House is probably 300 yards from where travellers like to turn up and freak people out every few years or so until they're moved on. While in the area they probably drop in on the horse-owning people 3 miles inland

I often find myself behind a gypsy on a dual carriageway in a cart being pulled fast by a horse.

So, gypsies don't bother me, trains in the garden don't bother me .... but the merest hint of a 6 year old boy that owns a football within half a mile and I'm panicking!!

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'd rather have a railway than a road at the bottom of the garden.

"I am trying to stay close to a big marshy area... " - Mosquitoes!!!! :eek:

I'm not a mosquito expert, but is it a salt-water marsh? I don't think mozzies like salt-water. But I might be wrong.





Edit ........crossed posts with Pastures.

Pyxis

Just, thought, Pastures, when you have moved, you'll have to change your name to PasturesEvenNewer.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Since my name I've moved nearly 15 times... I don't settle easily.

I could change it to TheGrassIsntGreener

15 times? :eek: In how many years? :eek::eek::eek: