• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    40 mins to central London on tube. Lots of green spaces near by. 2 solid square bedrooms, all the cosmic crap easily stripped out. Hard standing for 2 cars, decent back garden. Semi detached.

    The only reason it’s not more is “it’s Dagenham” and the general shabby state of the street.

    This’ll get snapped up by professional couple earning 160k+ combined willing to await the inevitable gentrification in 5/10 years.

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      2 months ago

      Amazing what passes for a “decent back garden” in the UK. My “back garden” is a quarter acre (1000m^2 ) on a property worth $140k USD including the 1200ft^2 (120m^2 ) house.

      On the downside my exterior walls are made of glue and sawdust, and my interior walls are made of paper and powdered gypsum.

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        2 months ago

        Well, decent “for London”. People can easily buy bigger spaces elsewhere in the country but you’re often in the middle of nowheresville.

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            2 months ago

            Oh totally, there are many great places to live in the UK that isn’t the London bubble. I was replying quickly and looking for something that summed not being near London jobs / the West end / art/ music scene etc from the point of view of the two professionals who’d likely drop that kind of money on that house

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          2 months ago

          Absolutely, I live a metro area with about 5 million people, it’s not an international hub of anything. It’s big enough to offer most of what you get in a big city aside from public transport, since our population density is wayyyyy lower.

          Is it really worth it for your back yard to be 3 feet of sidewalk and a 3ft^2 patch of unruly grass? Why is that grass even there? Feels like an insult to me. Just draw a frowny face on a block of concrete. People aren’t meant to live like that.