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Those are beautiful. And quite offensively cheap. I hate you.

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Quite. Grade II listing rather than listed I think.

I would imagine the tall one would only be mildly chilly in the depths of winter if one had a Rayburn in the kitchen running at medium-welly. You'd be breaking the ice in the bog with a walking stick in t'other.

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Kelston Mills is teeth-achingly picturesque, a short walk from a nice pub, a longer walk from a nicer one and they probably eat the weak of the village after the second week of being snowed in.

The estate does seem to be selling off a number of houses.

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Whereas I have to live in a crappy rundown suburb where the nearest pub was described on a local review site as 'having all the charm of a 1930s TB clinic'.

Admittedly there are several nicer pubs within walking distance, and exotic things like transport links and indoor plumbing.

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jarkman.livejournal.com

Well, there's always pullovers.

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steer.livejournal.com

Are there stairs in your house?

It took me a while to work out what the hell was going on with this. The illustration is of a rectangular cottage with floors seemingly the same size and three windows each side per floor. The floor plan has a larger ground floor and small square other floors with one window each side per floor. Presumably what you actually get is just the "middle bit" of the original cottage and there's an extension round the back on the ground floor with the bathroom.

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And large dogs.

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I have nothing clever here. I think I'd prefer it if Thatcherite dogma hadn't created the notions of underclass and sink estate and if the previous political generation hadn't completely arsed up the fine ideal of clean and affordable (rented) housing through greed and stupidity.

The answers should not be 'move in with a partner', 'get a proper job' or 'go live in t'north where it is cheap'.

(The bus to Bristol/Bath is at the end of the road and is something like once/hour)

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I think you get the entirety of the cottage. It's just 'one down, one up, one further up' like the rest of that terrace.

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steer.livejournal.com

From the exterior shot I thought it was a single building you would own all of not a terrace at all (because the exterior shot shows only one door and then at the left something white which is probably another door).

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I have a proper job, albeit in the public/third sector. Still can't afford anything.

And don't even get me started on the selfish bastards who complain when public sector workers want to hang on to their pensions and workplace benefits. Do they not think that's fair recompense for a working life on below-average wages, making sure that other people's kids get educated, grannies get a hot meal, roads get swept and benefits get paid on time?

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Exactly so. You're going to have to go somewhere else for an argument...

Well, see, they don't use it, so they don't see why they should pay for it. Which, next stop libertarianism.

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Yeah well, they can take their Fountainhead and shove it up their arse. And then go whistle for someone to help them pull it out.

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I don't hold with these modern houses and this "only one previous owner" stuff.

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I live in the only village in Wales that has a working train station, but no pub.

Wales. With no pub. This must be some sort of proof that Monmouthshire really was English all along.

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*laugh* The next village along from where I lived (and by along I mean 'down a very steep hill') is a 'dry village' by statute - it's in the deeds of the houses that they can't be run as public houses. Damn Protestant mine owners saving the working classes from drink! And to add insult to injury he named the poor parched place after his daughter. A neighbouring pit is called Emma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Vale

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I lived in Jesmond, in Newcastle. A dry Victorian housing estate, and it still was. The deeds of the house even forbade making your own homebrew! The couple of pubs there were had to cluster along the edges.

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inulro.livejournal.com

Part of Leeds 6 is known as the "dry square mile" because the original factory owners deemed it so.

When I lived there, there were still no pubs, but plenty of off licences. And the whole lot is within walking distance of the many pubs on the Otley Road.

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inulro.livejournal.com

£175k being cheap means I'm screwed for life. I couldn't get a mortgage for that.

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We have a pub here - not a bad one by all accounts, it's just that it's shut. Property developer greed overtook the guy who owned it. He went from being the successful landlord of two thriving pubs to going bankrupt. So let that be a lesson to all you Thatcherites!

The shame is that it's likely to moulder gradually for the next 5-10 years, then be demolished to squeeze in another 47 shoebox flatlets.

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Push a bit harder and the second one is only a smidgen more...

50k more, which is about twice what I paid for my first house.

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Jesmond? All fur coats and no knickers round there!

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I should say that that's in comparison to London prices. There are plenty of places in the UK where you can get a house or flat for a lot less. Though they tend to be places with less jobs and poorer travel links.

It's not getting a mortgage that's the problem, it's saving up the 15-20% deposit when your greedy landlord is sucking half your pay packet out of your bank account every month.

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