• shottymcb@lemm.ee
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    5 days 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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      4 days 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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        3 days 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.

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          4 days 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