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

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pascal30 Sat 17-Jun-23 13:00:47

I live in a small terraced house, with a sea view, and love my hilly neighbourhood. I don't think people are bothered about size of house, we just enjoy being close to everything on offer..
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dogsmother Sat 17-Jun-23 12:59:56

Location!
If I moved from my terrace. I could live in a fabulous property with huge gardens masses of parking but the price to pay is location. I am content (ish). In fact my terraced house is a semi but so small nobody notices the fact and it is addressed as a terrace!

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Doodledog Sat 17-Jun-23 12:54:01

Week 14 of building....

Condolences 😳

I've never experienced that snobbery either, and we live in a terrace grin. To me, the location is the important thing, and where we live has exactly what I want (apart from a sea view, but as we are miles from the sea it would take a natural disaster to achieve that). We are on the flat, near to amenities and transport, have gardens and a garage (the latter not always being available in older houses), plenty of space and we are very happy here.

We do hear neighbours' children in their garden, but unless a detached house has its own grounds that would also be the case.

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Galaxy Sat 17-Jun-23 12:42:34

No. I want to detach my house from my new neighbours but that's not the same thing.
Week 14 of building....

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Georgesgran Sat 17-Jun-23 12:41:32

What an odd post from OP.

It’s a no from me too.

As the average cost of moving is £20K and often a lot more, if you’re happy where you are, surely it makes sense to extend rather than move?

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FannyCornforth Sat 17-Jun-23 12:40:07

No

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tanith Sat 17-Jun-23 12:35:11

No.

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Kate1949 Sat 17-Jun-23 12:29:15

No.

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mantaray Sat 17-Jun-23 12:27:28

I live in the South East in a 4 bed semi in a lovely area. We tried to move to a bigger detached house when the kids were small and were gazumped twice. This put us off and we built on another bedroom and bathroom. Eventually moving was put on the back burner what with our children's after school and weekend sports and then their GCSEs and A levels .Our road is very wide and the houses have very large gardens, but I've been amazed by people who have said wouldn't you like to be detached even if that just means living in a box that is no bigger than our present house. There are several people in our road who own two or three houses so it's not as if people were poor around here and we could afford to move easily but are happy here. Another of my neighbours (they own three houses) said that people are incredulous that they don't move. A friend of mine who has relocated from the south East to the Midlands says its the curse of the South East. Has anybody else experienced this kind of snobbery?

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