Why are some people sniffy about living in a semi detached house?

I have lived in flats you can hear everything from up side and above. A
After marrying our home was a rented terraced house and the reason I wanted a detached was purely because of the noise from neighbours and the guy in our yard who used to pee out of the upstairs window during the day.
I said to my husband I would rather live in a box than have to put up with anymore of this.
We have only ever come across one person who lived next door who you could say was a snob and she was nasty with it.
Most people I find in life are nice friendly folk.

I'm past caring what people think and have no time for petty snobbery. I am thankful that I have a decent home to live in - so many people these days don't.

Hear Hear! Eloethan

I live in a semi in a little close, there are detached and semi’s in our neighbourhood. My friend lives in a detached and I’m very conscious of the fact that she thinks she’s better than me. I couldn’t care less, love my home and it feels like home and a mini mansion!

I'm afraid I am always dreadfully sniffy regarding anyone to would actually say ' wouldn't you prefer to live blah blah blah'. Would assume their intent was to be 'innocently' insulting.

thanks L. Ravenscroft. I began to think that I was imagining 'house snobbery', judging from other posts. I grew up on a farm in rural Shropshire in a rambling old shabby farmhouse and had never heard of terraced, semi detaches and detached until we bought our first house. Even then I didn't realise the social implications until friends who moved house nearly always bought a detached house even if it was smaller than a semi. When we moved to our present large semi it got back to us on the grapevine that a lot of people were surprised that we hadn't bought a detached house. This was also because they knew what my husband did and knew we could afford it. I was very surprised at this and still am as even after 40 years people still allude to it.

Now we have always put floor area over whether a house is semied or not.

As a result both our last house and our current one, have been/are large roomy homes, with character and style. Much larger than we could afford if being detached had been an obsession. As I have said elsewhere, we have had no problems with noise transference in either, because the way we were semied meant this cannot happen.

I think people can be sniffy about lots of things. Oh well.

There is a lot of snobbery that goes along with homes.

When I first moved to this area I rented. I had always lived in flats since leaving school so we were all renters. No problems.

However when I had a problem with my neighbour sending tradespeople onto the property without notice or permission I had to establish boundaries. I told her I would not withold permission for essential future work but she must speak to me first. She said "I dont need your permission, your only a tenant." Needless to say I lashed back pretty hard to tell her that I has exactly the same rights as she did as to who came onto the property. I threatened to call the police if I found strangers trespassing on my property again without leave and would certainly have done so.

I live in a small detached house (2 beds and a boxroom) and later purchased it from the landlord. I can say that makes all the difference when you have nasty neighbours. The distance between our homes may only be about 15 feet but it could be a thousand for all the interest I have in my neighbours. With a dividing wall between properties you can hear when your neighbours are home. So if you have a whiny/snitchy/needy neighbour it can be that bit more difficult to ignore them.

Because it was a private transaction with no "for sale" signs up it was two years before my horrid neighbour found out I was now the owner. She had some issues she wanted to sort out with the owner and was asking me did I know the LL's new phone number as she could not contact her. She has a face like a smacked a**e when I told her the LL had gone to live abroad and I was now the owner.

Love it!