Owning your own home

same for air quality

And view.

There are buildings behind, but I have a little space and trees from every window.

My current view...

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I only like nature when its in distance; min 20 feet away

I am intrigued, is this between A103 and Mountview Road?

is this between A103 and Mountview Road?

Yes! Exactly that shallow.

We didn't know it was this quiet when we bought it. I mean... we were being loud and it was mid-afternoon when we looked, you look for 5 minutes and our assumption was that it was noisy, but it was us... we were noisy chatting and talking when we looked.

I never registered or understood what the geography would mean... very quiet, very dark, and storms pass over but we don't feel the direct hit of them.

That sounds blissful. My road (6m from front door) has become a rat run and is busy 24hrs a day. It's got speed bumps on it so people tend to accelerate between them and then jump on the brakes hard every 50m.

Why are most drivers in London such twats?

why people outside London, hate London

I think those people assume it’s all like a flat in a tower block next to the M4. And they hate that you can’t drive / park everywhere.

people outside london hate london because it hoovers up all the resources and attention ime.

Really enjoying these short exerts from the book, almost makes me feel like I’m living there myself.

(The joke is: all these posts about Muswell hill sound like they come from a book as they are have a quite ephemeral nature).

I only like nature when its in distance; min 20 feet away

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I mean if you spend money you can live nicely, isnt that the basis of inequality and why people outside London, hate London?

It's sweet that you think that people outside London care enough for other people that they don't like the place because inequality :P

I agree with @NickCJ - people outside of London think it's all dirty and noisy, can't understand how everyone copes with using public transport and there's often closet racism going on too.

And a strong under current of resentment I think.

^Yup.

Thanks @PQR / @TW for the Shark tips, I'll try those. To be honest it's my job to fix things/do DIY around the flat and sometimes I get sick of the apparently never ending list of things that need doing!

You can drive and park everywhere in London, you just have to pay.

Overt racism in many cases.

Job for this week. Replace all the treads and risers.

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And they hate that you can’t drive / park everywhere.

oh, fuck them all then

Would you mind sharing the original EA listing? I'd like to see what it looked like when you agreed to buy (falling back into the laying awake at night wondering why the fuck we've bought our place again).

My home office is fairly quiet, I can hear the power conversion electronics in my access point when someone transfers a lot of data. Bloody annoying.

I got a Dyson V6 about 4 or 5 years ago and the battery still seems fine. It probably won't last 10 years (although there are still replacement batteries available so a decent chance if I replace it) but just being able to grab it and vacuum rather than assembling and plugging in means that it gets way more use than the Miele I have.

https://www.kfh.co.uk/south-east-london-and-north-kent/west-norwood/se27/houses-for-sale/2213087/

My previous flat in Dalston was like that, one road behind Balls Pond Road and it was whisper quiet, likewise the place before that in Stoke Newington as it was in a mini cul-de-sac. It's a nice contrast from when I lived on Essex Road which must have been a solid 100db minimum 24/7.

I got a Dyson V6 about 4 or 5 years ago and the battery still seems fine. It probably won't last 10 years (although there are still replacement batteries available so a decent chance if I replace it) but just being able to grab it and vacuum rather than assembling and plugging in means that it gets way more use than the Miele I have.

Dyson V7 here, replaced the batteries with OEM ones once, will likely keep doing that until the unit borks and then will buy anything but a Dyson to replace it, the Brexist cunt.

Recently picked one up and although the Henry is bloody good they're not as robust as I once remembered.

Fuck Dyson though.

Came here to look at people's extensions, will hang around for Dyson battery info - my V7 has stopped working on high power & suspect it's the battery, any point in getting anything other than the actual Dyson one, preferably not something that will burst into flames? Also resent giving them (more) money, hope his Singapore billionaire pads fall into the sea.