Is this house a good buy?

robatwork

lookstraightahead said:

Just my opinion here and I've lived in central London, Greater London and now I've moved far away.

I love love love terraced old quirky houses and would choose one of these over a 4 bed detached new build on an estate any day. I've been in a massive new house with room for buses let alone cars and it had no soul. I've also been in a two bed terrace with a Mediterranean style tiny garden and loved it (no front garden / garage etc).

I always look at area first, before absolutely anything else. My biggest issue is noise. 

It's hard to ask opinion on a forum as we all have different ideas, but go with what you're drawn to.

One of the problems is, however characterful your house is and how much diligence you do, you can't control your neighbours. Even in Lewes, Hove or Knightsbridge. Having 2 is twice the chance of getting a cretin with an adjoining wall.  Once you've had a mouth breather next door, you'd forego any feeling of "no soul" for being detached. 

lookstraightahead

robatwork said:

lookstraightahead said:

Just my opinion here and I've lived in central London, Greater London and now I've moved far away.

I love love love terraced old quirky houses and would choose one of these over a 4 bed detached new build on an estate any day. I've been in a massive new house with room for buses let alone cars and it had no soul. I've also been in a two bed terrace with a Mediterranean style tiny garden and loved it (no front garden / garage etc).

I always look at area first, before absolutely anything else. My biggest issue is noise. 

It's hard to ask opinion on a forum as we all have different ideas, but go with what you're drawn to.

One of the problems is, however characterful your house is and how much diligence you do, you can't control your neighbours. Even in Lewes, Hove or Knightsbridge. Having 2 is twice the chance of getting a cretin with an adjoining wall.  Once you've had a mouth breather next door, you'd forego any feeling of "no soul" for being detached. 

I meant car noise (having lived on a main road). I think you have to be aware of your surroundings which includes your neighbours whatever type of house you decide. I'm in a semi house 200 years old and I can't hear anything through the walls. 

Help1234

We lived in a semi before and didn't hear a thing until the single lady in the adjoining house moved out and the young couple moved in and left their dog to howl for 10 hours per day while they went to work :-(
My friend has just moved out of her detached new build due to problem neighbours!

RelievedSheff

lookstraightahead said:

robatwork said:

lookstraightahead said:

Just my opinion here and I've lived in central London, Greater London and now I've moved far away.

I love love love terraced old quirky houses and would choose one of these over a 4 bed detached new build on an estate any day. I've been in a massive new house with room for buses let alone cars and it had no soul. I've also been in a two bed terrace with a Mediterranean style tiny garden and loved it (no front garden / garage etc).

I always look at area first, before absolutely anything else. My biggest issue is noise. 

It's hard to ask opinion on a forum as we all have different ideas, but go with what you're drawn to.

One of the problems is, however characterful your house is and how much diligence you do, you can't control your neighbours. Even in Lewes, Hove or Knightsbridge. Having 2 is twice the chance of getting a cretin with an adjoining wall.  Once you've had a mouth breather next door, you'd forego any feeling of "no soul" for being detached. 

I meant car noise (having lived on a main road). I think you have to be aware of your surroundings which includes your neighbours whatever type of house you decide. I'm in a semi house 200 years old and I can't hear anything through the walls. 

We lived in a huge Victorian semi and rarely heard our neighbours yet when we moved to a 1930s semi we could hear everything from next door and it drove us mad.

Which is why we bought detached this time round and made sure we would have no issues with neighbour noise through the walls. Despite being a new build our closest neighbours are 6.6m away across the double width driveway. The next nearest are 13m away at the bottom of the garden.

The house may have been a bland out of the box new build but part of the fun of living here has been personalising it, putting our own stamp on it and making it our home.

lookstraightahead

RelievedSheff said:

lookstraightahead said:

robatwork said:

lookstraightahead said:

Just my opinion here and I've lived in central London, Greater London and now I've moved far away.

I love love love terraced old quirky houses and would choose one of these over a 4 bed detached new build on an estate any day. I've been in a massive new house with room for buses let alone cars and it had no soul. I've also been in a two bed terrace with a Mediterranean style tiny garden and loved it (no front garden / garage etc).

I always look at area first, before absolutely anything else. My biggest issue is noise. 

It's hard to ask opinion on a forum as we all have different ideas, but go with what you're drawn to.

One of the problems is, however characterful your house is and how much diligence you do, you can't control your neighbours. Even in Lewes, Hove or Knightsbridge. Having 2 is twice the chance of getting a cretin with an adjoining wall.  Once you've had a mouth breather next door, you'd forego any feeling of "no soul" for being detached. 

I meant car noise (having lived on a main road). I think you have to be aware of your surroundings which includes your neighbours whatever type of house you decide. I'm in a semi house 200 years old and I can't hear anything through the walls. 

We lived in a huge Victorian semi and rarely heard our neighbours yet when we moved to a 1930s semi we could hear everything from next door and it drove us mad.

Which is why we bought detached this time round and made sure we would have no issues with neighbour noise through the walls. Despite being a new build our closest neighbours are 6.6m away across the double width driveway. The next nearest are 13m away at the bottom of the garden.

The house may have been a bland out of the box new build but part of the fun of living here has been personalising it, putting our own stamp on it and making it our home.

I don't mean to offend about new houses - you'd probably hate my old one, but the op was having a bit of a hard time with people saying they were pokey houses and comparing with houses with garages etc, and I wanted to put across that sometimes space isn't everything.

I do agree that peace and quiet with whatever noise drives you mad is worth living in anything for. I'm in a much smaller house than the one I was in on the main road, but there's no traffic noise. I've paid extra for the peace.