03-08-2020, 08:16 AM
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Re: Big House In A Bad Area, Or A Small House In A Good Area?
Originally Posted by susan m
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Last year I watched a documentary about £1 houses in a really bad area of Liverpool . These derelict houses offered an opportunity for folk to do up and own themselves. They worked so very hard . Made them absolutely beautiful .But in an awful area .
The houses robbed , attacked and thugs passing each day ready to violate or abuse these families and their children.
I wonder if it was worth it now . I wouldn't have wanted to live there .
03-08-2020, 08:25 AM
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Re: Big House In A Bad Area, Or A Small House In A Good Area?
Originally Posted by spitfire
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Location location, location. Never live next to a green open space, an alley way, a School, or bottom of a Cul De Sac (or anywhere Children can be sent to play safely), or within 100 metres of a Convenience Store, or where there is a Bus Stop (especially with a low sitable wall), a development where the entry/exit point is on a main road where the traffic is a pain in the arse, against these criteria, the size of the property is immaterial.Imo
03-08-2020, 08:32 AM
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Re: Big House In A Bad Area, Or A Small House In A Good Area?
Originally Posted by spitfire
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Location location, location. Never live next to a green open space, an alley way, a School, or bottom of a Cul De Sac (or anywhere Children can be sent to play safely), or within 100 metres of a Convenience Store, or where there is a Bus Stop (especially with a low sitable wall), a development where the entry/exit point is on a main road where the traffic is a pain in the arse, against these criteria, the size of the property is immaterial.Imo
03-08-2020, 09:42 AM
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Re: Big House In A Bad Area, Or A Small House In A Good Area?
Originally Posted by susan m
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Last year I watched a documentary about £1 houses in a really bad area of Liverpool . These derelict houses offered an opportunity for folk to do up and own themselves. They worked so very hard . Made them absolutely beautiful .But in an awful area .
The houses robbed , attacked and thugs passing each day ready to violate or abuse these families and their children.
I wonder if it was worth it now . I wouldn't have wanted to live there .
That's a shame, after all their hard work Susan.
But that seems money down the drain to me, because no matter how nice you make the inside, it won't change the area outside.
03-08-2020, 11:02 AM
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Re: Big House In A Bad Area, Or A Small House In A Good Area?
Originally Posted by susan m
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Last year I watched a documentary about £1 houses in a really bad area of Liverpool . These derelict houses offered an opportunity for folk to do up and own themselves. They worked so very hard . Made them absolutely beautiful .But in an awful area .
The houses robbed , attacked and thugs passing each day ready to violate or abuse these families and their children.
I wonder if it was worth it now . I wouldn't have wanted to live there .
03-08-2020, 11:31 AM
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Re: Big House In A Bad Area, Or A Small House In A Good Area?
Originally Posted by Baz46
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Another planet sounds more suitable, perhaps that's the answer to all these problems? Failing that a house in the middle of a field with only cows and horses for neighbours, no people, and a twenty-mile car journey to the nearest town!
03-08-2020, 01:32 PM
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Re: Big House In A Bad Area, Or A Small House In A Good Area?
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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If I could I would live on Pern then & impress a dragon.
series – 'Dragonriders of Pern'!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern
One thing is for certain – I never stop learning! No idea what I am going to do with
all this knowledge though!
03-08-2020, 01:45 PM
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Re: Big House In A Bad Area, Or A Small House In A Good Area?
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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If I could I would live on Pern then & impress a dragon.
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