Help me find an affordable place to buy a house

Davesnave wrote: »

I didn't say we find Poundbury ugly; we just see it as a very controlled environment. Like a model on a magazine cover, it represents someone's idea of perfection, but it's not ours. We like life a little messy at the edges and prefer places that have evolved over time. Our local town goes way back before Domesday.

Besides, we can't afford what we enjoy now in Poundbury. We have a lot of freedom to do what we want on our 5 acre site here, which isn't overlooked. We know no one's going to invoke covenants to restrict us or build something messing up our view, because we own it!

We bought this place for well under £300k. If we sold up now, we might just about get a 3 or 4 bed property in Poundbury with a small, overlooked garden, where, perhaps, we could be bored into an early grave....No thanks.

What was your budget again? Poundbury, like most of Dorset, looks expensive.

As you say, each to his own.

I get Poundbury is not your cup of tea....I get that a historic town from 1086 is going to be more appealing to people than one built in 2018....

I am just saying that if you are going to build a new English town without the ridiculous budget of a city like Dubai, Poundbury IMO is more or less the best you are going to get.

It for sure beats the bog standard red brick after red brick houses that are built in numbers on new developments around the UK, and I am glad that isn't what this piece of land became.

In 2018 you can't just replicate a town from 1881.

My argument isn't about comparing Poundbury to historic towns like Bath, York, Oxford, it's about comparing it to developments built these days. I just can't see how anyone can be disappointed in Poundbury as a modern development. What was the better option here? if you are going to build a new town in the UK the size of Poundbury, with the same amount of homes.......how would it look to you? Maybe as you live in a Doomsday down - maybe houses would all have thatched roofs? but then again - it's still going to look like a 'Model town'. The only way to avoid the model town look is to build the same awful generic brick houses we build today, or build in a modern way.

Of course, there are a lot of people out there that don't like a single piece of green land being developed on, even though the UK has a ridiculous amount of countryside - how much does one need. These same people live in their houses that were built on what once was green countryside, but god forbid anyone else having their house built.

Wasn't interested in moving to Poundbury. Poundbury was just referenced as they are building a Poundbury-esque town extension to Plymouth. It is great to see nice looking developments get built instead of the crud we usually see get built around the UK.