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House number envy

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  • Cakeguts
    Cakeguts Posts: 7,627 Forumite
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    I have had

    16
    66
    16
  • Annie35
    Annie35 Posts: 385 Forumite
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    No1 Yorkshire is up for sale

    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50181105.html
  • theGrinch
    theGrinch Posts: 3,133 Forumite
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    low numbers sing commercial or problem parking at the end of the road
    "enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    We don't have a road name, let alone a number.
    Our full official Royal Mail address is housename, village, next village, county, postcode.

    We only got road names about 15 years ago in our village. If you put my name, house name and postcode on a letter then it would still be delivered. In fact I suspect it would get here with just name and postcode too.

    Best address ever:
    1 & 1/2 Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate in York
  • StumpyPumpy
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    Throughout all my time of owning houses, renting houses, being a lodger, living in student digs, living with my parents and being born in a house; I have only ever lived in odd numbered ones. No superstition, just coincidence. I only worked it out a couple of Christmases ago when my mother mentioned that throughout her life, she had only ever lived in odd numbered houses.

    SP
    Come on people, it's not difficult: lose means to be unable to find, loose means not being fixed in place. So if you have a hole in your pocket you might lose your loose change.
  • Margot123
    Margot123 Posts: 1,116 Forumite
    Moving from one with just a name to a numbered one.
    Makes a big difference when the emergency services are trying to find you, believe me!
  • dotchas
    dotchas Posts: 2,484 Forumite
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    I have lived in
    6
    33
    66
    and own BTL's 6, 6, 27 and 33
    There's something about the number 3!
    :j I love bargains:j
    I love MSE
  • Alter_ego
    Alter_ego Posts: 3,842 Forumite
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    edited 15 February 2018 at 8:56PM
    Traditionally, numbers started from the town centre, ie No 1 was nearer to town so more desirable.

    It's true about the emergency services, I've spent hours leaning out of fire engine window trying to spot house names using a torch. The ones that were really burning were easier though.
    I am not a cat (But my friend is)
  • 00ec25
    00ec25 Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    edited 15 February 2018 at 9:07PM
    hazyjo wrote: »
    That's the definition of posh :D lol


    My friend's is like yours in Fife - village, near next village, etc.
    Annie35 wrote: »
    No1 Yorkshire is up for sale

    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50181105.html
    argh, but nothing beats the Duke of Wellington's (old) residence:

    No 1, London

    http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/apsley-house/

    what more do you need? Even HRH is out in the cold on that one
  • arthurdick
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    hazyjo wrote: »
    A little bit of snob in me agrees lol. I was always disappointed when I viewed houses with more than 2 numbers. I even lived at one :eek:
    I'm a bit weird in that I love a 3 in my number somewhere, or it has to be divisible by 3 or somehow make a 3 (like 14 where you can take the 1 from the 4). Seriously coincidental that half of mine have actually the number 3!

    I have bought at:

    35
    13
    3 (yay!)
    207 (the shame ;))
    62
    18
    14
    32

    Jx
    ha,yep, I see your shame.but onlyyou knew.
    Corduroy pillows are making headlines! Back home in London now after 27years wait! Duvet know it's Christmas, not original, it's a cover.
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