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Massive ramble incoming, sorry. Upon rereading I was maybe a bit strong. Our house is huge and location is wonderful and I’m very happy with our choices, but the house itself is so sad/frustrating to live in and it does get to me a bit when I look up from wrangling two kids and trying to survive in life. Obvs rarely a lull to do that though!
It doesn’t help that two near-neighbours in similar properties have really knocked it out of the park with thoughtful refurbishments, highlights how nice ours could be with the application of time and money we won’t have for a long time. When we were scoping out the town walking around, long before it came to market, I even commented on how nice our little part of things is apart from the really sad house on the end which we obviously now occupy. Thanks, fates. Well played. *
I really thought through what I wanted to do to the property before we moved in, and those ambitions haunt me every now and again so try to keep expectations low/realistic.
Your comments on the views from the place honestly sold me tho, do it. Something like that really highlights the benefit of moving somewhere different and you’ll feel it every day. We’re atop a big hill on the edge of town and can’t see shit, plus our garden is overlooked on two sides by retirement flats while we wait for some planting to mature. It’s a very London z5 suburbia vibe until we walk around the corner and look out over hills across to distant villages/westbury white horse or whatever and get the semi rural payoff.
* funnily enough another house that caught our eye on a wander also came to market. Similar price, amazing views, just a tiny bit further out. With benefit of local knowledge though we’d never consider it due to traffic and prospective development. So sometimes what seems like the best answer from the outside maybe isn’t. We still coo at it and its views over the valley every time we go past tho.
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I'm sorry to hear that, but it's definitely comforting!
One issue here is that some fucking idiot paid £800k for a 900sq ft semi with a downstairs bathroom last year, and since then all the houses are overpriced and (but not really selling fast). I think it's putting people off selling their houses because they're waiting for things to start going for silly money again (which we hope they won't).
We might start putting notes through doors if we don't plump for the ugly duckling house in the end.