Want to move to the country, what do you think of this House?

Murphybear

Unless you really need a large house you will find it a pain after a while.

we rented a farm on the edge of Dartmoor for 6 months.  It had 4 bedrooms and 3 reception rooms and was a pain to clean and expensive to heat.  The landlord, who lived next door, expected us to keep every room heated all the time but we didn’t know this until we had been living there for 3 months.  The main living room had a log burner and they are a big pain as well.

Crashy_Time

MoneySeeker1 said:

Personally - I'd be thinking "It's in Scotland - make that a No then" - because of the way things would be too "different" there to what you're used to I would think.

Even the way of buying a house is different in Scotland is different to the rest of the country and I'd be there thinking "I'd have to figure out what the procedure is to buy a house all over again - and probably quite a lot of the rest of the laws too" - so, if you're a quick learner and prepared to deal with things being rather different in that part of the country and have taken that into account, then it might work for you. But it is a thing to bear in mind - when one has spent decades "knowing how things Work" to throw all that up in the air and wonder how much is "different".

Then there's the colder weather......ditto...you might be okay with that personally of course...

The person buying it won`t be that insular, they will be at a level in a company where they can travel to an office in Glasgow/Edinburgh or even London for meetings and work from home a lot, and being in Scotland where everybody watches the same TV and uses the same phone apps and dresses the same as everywhere else in the country and works for the same firms more or less won`t freak them out too much (and it`s not as if they will be seeing many people living there anyway?) or they run their own business where a lot of the work is done online, they will be the type of person that would buy a house in France and maybe commute to London or something like that, not the type of person who thinks the next town over is full of vampires. Of course the middle class type jobs that fund these sorts of lifestyles may be under severe pressure with Brexit/Covid/Death of globalism etc. we shall see, but I`m surprised it was so cheap a few years back actually.

Crashy_Time

JGB1955 said:

The garden is far too big for my liking and the heating bills must be astronomical.

This would be more like my 'escape to the country' sort of place https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71597260.html

That looks like a place you would go to work, a brewery maybe or a learning centre for people with disabilities, nothing wrong with that but it isn`t homely at all, way too practical looking.

davidmcn

MoneySeeker1 said:

Even the way of buying a house is different in Scotland is different to the rest of the country and I'd be there thinking "I'd have to figure out what the procedure is to buy a house all over again - and probably quite a lot of the rest of the laws too"

I'm not sure that's generally much of a concern. If this forum tells us anything, it's that people don't have a clue about house-buying procedures or laws in their own jurisdiction, never mind the one next door!

Though I would say house-buying is rather more straightforward in Scotland than it seems to be in England.

GaleSF63

andyinlondon said:

For work the navy base / Babcock is a large employer 4.5 miles away, and Glasgow is an hour away by car or there is a train station 4 miles away or 67mb Internet for home woring.
But best of all to wake up to that view

Glasgow an hour away sounds like estate agents optimism. 

The nearest station (6 miles) has about 7 trains each way a day, (though one is a direct service to Euston).

And the view disappears on a regular basis - see GDB2222's comment on rainfall. Local saying - "If you can't see Greenock it's raining; if you can see Greenock it's going to rain."

MoneySeeker1

davidmcn said:

MoneySeeker1 said:

Even the way of buying a house is different in Scotland is different to the rest of the country and I'd be there thinking "I'd have to figure out what the procedure is to buy a house all over again - and probably quite a lot of the rest of the laws too"

I'm not sure that's generally much of a concern. If this forum tells us anything, it's that people don't have a clue about house-buying procedures or laws in their own jurisdiction, never mind the one next door!

Though I would say house-buying is rather more straightforward in Scotland than it seems to be in England.

Method of housebuying could be the least of their worries....beyond that there could be nearby Others that "think" their opinion counts for more than someone else's fair share of local opinions (because they're "local" doncha know....).

Davesnave

MoneySeeker1 said:

Personally - I'd be thinking "It's in Scotland - make that a No then" - because of the way things would be too "different" there to what you're used to I would think.
Then there's the colder weather......ditto...you might be okay with that personally of course...

You haven't stayed in Scotland any length of time, have you?

Last time I was in that area the locals were fine and I doubt if the wee fishwife has had that much influence since.

What Gale says about the rain and the views could also be applied to many parts of Wales too!

As for whoever mentioned the midgies, you have to look at where the standing bodies of fresh water are. They aren't going to get on the train to come and find you!

Scotbot

I assume you chose Scotland as you are from there  but why would anyone want such a large house? Unless you have 5 kids, and if you do there are not enough bathrooms

Crashy_Time

Scotbot said:

I assume you chose Scotland as you are from there  but why would anyone want such a large house? Unless you have 5 kids, and if you do there are not enough bathrooms

?? Probably two thirds of the country used to aspire to a "large house", because that is what the TV told them to aspire to, but unfortunately if the banker class is going to have a large house the rest have to pay (borrow) a lot for a basic house, that is how a Ponzi scheme works!

hazyjo

Don't like this one, but would love an enormous house. I love decorating, having friends stay, buying furniture, etc. If that's what I can afford to own when I retire, I'd love to! My MIL and her partner own an 8 bed house (ex-guesthouse) by the sea. That'll do!