Moving from the East Midlands to County Durham - Are we mad...

Sistergold

Grizebeck said:

GDB2222 said:

We want to downsize, but we want to stay very close to where we are now. I think it’s difficult to move areas completely and have to put down new roots, make new friends, etc. At least, we would find it hard.

Detached to end terrace? That’s less of a problem, but you do rely on your neighbour being considerate about noise. 

Garden size. You maybe could accept a smaller garden and get an allotment?

Thanks currently got an allotment (two) so hoping to find a place with a big enough garden BUT the area in general does have a lot of allotments and the waiting lists are less in the less "posh" areas
Luckily we are at an age where we can make friends
We are lucky in the sense this is all choice so we dont have to accept 2nd best! 
I think some terraces offer much better value then some houses these days and are deceptively big

Terraces “always offer more value for your money” until they don’t. At least with end of terrace you have half the potential problems. It can quickly become “too close for comfort. 

koalakoala

I wouldn’t move from a detached to anything other than a detached. 

It would feel like a step backwards to me

Grizebeck

koalakoala said:

I wouldn’t move from a detached to anything other than a detached. 

It would feel like a step backwards to me

Thats kinda in the back of my mind!

YoungBlueEyes

koalakoala said:

I wouldn’t move from a detached to anything other than a detached. 

It would feel like a step backwards to me

This ^ We've moved from an end terrace to a nice semi with a big garden. I really wanted a detached but we couldn't afford it at the time.

When we move again it'll definitely be to a detached, no question.  

Edit - nice as that house was that Linton put up (and it was lovely ) it was still a mid-terrace with no real garden.

Ramouth

I am a firm believer in terraces IF they have good party walls.  We are pretty sure our current mid terrace started life as a detatched property in 1780 ish so has 2ft plus thick granite walls.  The only neighbour noise we get is via outside which we would get in a detached.  Some friends of ours however rented an Edwardian terrace with single skin brickwork party wall and you could hear everything from next door.  

newsgroupmonkey_

We moved from Beds to South Hampshire last September. Still have ways of keeping up with our old friends, but have made new ones too.
The family use it as an opportunity to come here for holidays, so all is great.

To be fair, we don't have huge groups of friends or do huge social events - we love each other's company.