When will it be my house?

We are very friendly with a couple who live at the "Turkey Farm", it's not called that and the turkey farmer left 20 years ago but to us it is still the Turkey Farm.

I just realised I might not like it if my home was (say) previously the slaughterhouse...

I lived near a small new build group of homes (fancy ones) which incorporated one of those once. We locals referred to them as the "slaughterhouses"

I haven't experience of this (but have loved reading your stories) so my tale is a bit off-piste. The nearest bus stop to me for our local town bus, used by residents all the time, is still referred to as 'Can you stop outside Argos please?' Argos moved out years ago and the premises are empty with no signage. It's still referred to as the Argos bus stop in the printed timetable.

We lived in our first house for nine years and were still known as "the new people down the road."
I did wonder how long it would take for that to change!

We bought the "Kennedy's house" from Mrs Kennedy, complete with some furniture as she, now widowed, was downsizing. The Kennedys bought it new in 1938.
Now I live in the "Cowan's" house. They moved out in 1952 but are well known in the town to this day. The original Cowan family moved in about 1830.
What with the Kennedy's furniture, including the bath whose taps are dated 1938 we brought with us I don't think I would yet describe the house as mine
I've been here 43 years
That'll be for those future people.

Guilty as charged. Two neighbours homes are referred to by us and everyone who knew them by their previous, now deceased, owners names.

The (only) previous owner of our home used to breed cage birds, after ten years we still have people knock on the door asking if we have any young birds. We’ve never dared ask folk who remember him how they refer to our home, although one does refer to us as the people who live in the naughty corner .

We have lived in our house for 33 years but people still ask whether we live at the house with the boat in the garden. The people we bought it from built it around 1970 and parked a boat on the front.