New build houses, yeah or nah?

[KungFooBob]

Biggest issue living off public transport routes with kids is that you become a full-time taxi driver, at least Weeksy's lad will have a licence soon!

He doesn’t go anywhere

You let him sniff glue and shag birds at home then?

[weeksy]

Biggest issue living off public transport routes with kids is that you become a full-time taxi driver, at least Weeksy's lad will have a licence soon!

He doesn’t go anywhere

You let him sniff glue and shag birds at home then?

Well his GF almost lives in our house, I assume they’ve well, you know

[Mr Moofo]

What do you mean if the car breaks down ?
HEalth scares.. not had any and not sure what it would change really
The boy i take somewhere twice a week, but usually as you know it's weekends away, but that wouldn't be any different if i were in a town.

I'm more than happy with village life, which is why Weston under Penyard ticked all my boxes, but last night it came up and i got a "fuck no"... so i think that one is out

I'm off over that way today for more coaching for the boy so may view something else.

If the car breaks down how do you get to …. if there no taxi / public transport etc
But it’s your choice - be realistic about what you want , how many rooms you need, will you use all the space etc. I know very little about “the Forest” other than you may need to learn how to play the banjo .
I was just chipping in with my experience of living up an Alp and a small village with fuck all facilities

Since everyone is big upping the animal noises, I lived in a house that backed onto Edinburgh Zoo … the lion noises were impressive

Get to where? lol.

Plus we’ve got 2 cars and a van. In the very worst scenario I’d have to cycle to work

I didn’t think you worked !! Other than team manager for the boy

[weeksy]

Exactly. Well, I did twice last year, but mostly for beers not work

[weeksy]

So yesterday me and the boy looked at a few things

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

This one was one of my favoured locations, Berry Hill. It's convenient for pretty much everything. However, it's funny how viewing places in the context of living there is different than just driving past and thinking "yeah i'd live there", you look a bit more in-depth at things and this area just feels wrong to me. It was like that Jim Carey movie where he's in a weird world that's not real. Everything just felt artificial and wrong. It had nothing that jumped out at me. I can imagine coming back from having a beer and getting lost finding your own house.
Weirdly, the one in Coleford at the entry to a similar sort of setup didn't feel like that, it felt part of the area... Whereas Berry hill felt like it's been plonked there overnight

I took a cycle over to this place, but we're not viewing the inside until the weekend.

This one was dreamy to me, properly idylic location, driveway will get all 3 vehicles on (still no clue where a motorhome fits into any discussions yet) no passing traffic to speak of. Only real downside to it is no mains gas, so you're on bottle/oil. Plus maybe feeling a bit out of the way as no pub/shop/anything, but Tesco is only 2.9 miles away.... mostly downhill so nipping to there is OK, but not cyclng back as that's a proper hill

We looked at the 5 bed in Coleford and he was cool with the location, although i'm still not exactly in love with the location in some ways. It's a bit of a nowhere in terms of walking to the shop, but 90% of the location otherwise really suits me as it's close enough to commute by MTB for him, close enough to trails for me, house is superb... so it's still on the list.


My favourite is still the Weston under Penyard, but i still can't see a way of Mrs Weeksy going with it.

[KungFooBob]

That last pic looks like a shared drive. You don't want that, trust me.

[weeksy]

That last pic looks like a shared drive. You don't want that, trust me.

Well it is and isn't.

The 2 garages are 2 different houses yes, but both have their own spaces. (we have the same setup here).
At the bottom they have their own driveway but they're all accessed through 1 inital bit...

The driveway is the only thing that really puts me off the place in truth. But i'm sure it'd be something that would work itself out OK in the long term.

[Mr Moofo]

That last pic looks like a shared drive. You don't want that, trust me.

Especially with 3 vehicles and one of them potentially a motorhome. You will piss off the neighbours

[weeksy]

That last pic looks like a shared drive. You don't want that, trust me.

Especially with 3 vehicles and one of them potentially a motorhome. You will piss off the neighbours

LOL we're not stupid We know we have the 2 allocated spaces and then the other car is parked about 30m away at the bottom of the road. There's no facility in ANY of the houses apart from 1 we've viewed where a motorhome and all the other things are fitting.. It's honestly a fairly unrealistic option within the budget to have a driveway like that. If we stayed where we are now for example i honestly have no clue what we'd do about parking a mo-ho.

[Count Steer]

The Truman Show?

We've got a local development like that. I've always said it was like something from The Stepford Wives but Truman Show is better.

It's like they fed all the issues of Ideal Home magazine into an AI and said 'generate an estate and some people to populate it'.

(I was chatting to my ex-neighbour about the development and she said 'Those houses are all ~£1.4M+! You could buy a really nice house for that!'. (They did - got a bankrupt old rock stars place and umpteen acres of estate. I said 'you know you've made it when you can't see your house from the gate'. )

[Mr Moofo]

That last pic looks like a shared drive. You don't want that, trust me.

Especially with 3 vehicles and one of them potentially a motorhome. You will piss off the neighbours

LOL we're not stupid We know we have the 2 allocated spaces and then the other car is parked about 30m away at the bottom of the road. There's no facility in ANY of the houses apart from 1 we've viewed where a motorhome and all the other things are fitting.. It's honestly a fairly unrealistic option within the budget to have a driveway like that. If we stayed where we are now for example i honestly have no clue what we'd do about parking a mo-ho.

Good to hear - consideration for others in not a prerequisite for most MOHO owners.
(In Germany they had to be parked at facilities esp for them)

[weeksy]

(In Germany they had to be parked at facilities esp for them)

That seems to be coming in at around £500 a year, which isn't ridiculous as long as we can find it within a sensible distance of where we're living.

Plan B in that we end up with a LWB Sprinter conversion instead, which is a slight compromise in a way but not impossible.

[weeksy]

Baffled by a new property that's come on the market in our village. Same size as ours, arguably a bit of a bigger front garden, but it's £75-100k over ours.... looking at it, i can't see how that's even slightly possible.

[Docca]

estate agents will overprice to get your business


The middle house that looked more like a bungalow would be my pick.

I created a Moscow of sorts when choosing where I live now. Having lived close to roads, one of the 'must haves' included no passing traffic and that's lovely.

Others included detached, detached garage etc etc- but it was helpful for my way of thinking to frame things a bit more logically. Two houses ago, I put a full asking price offer in just from seeing the house on Rightmove. We lived there for a while- lovely, but that in hindsight was stupid.

[weeksy]

The middle house that looked more like a bungalow would be my pick.

Yeah that's top of my likely list... With the Weston one being top of my 'wife isn't keen' list, we're viewing that one Sat morning, but often as we all know, the viewing can change opinions and thoughts pretty quciky.

[Cousin Jack]

When you have decided what to buy have a really long hard think about the downsides, both of the property and location. We didnt really do that, and now we are stuck with a less than ideal property in a less than ideal location. Dont get me wrong, it's not dire and all the issues are manageable, but with the benefit of hindsight we wouldn't have moved to where we are.

[weeksy]

When you have decided what to buy have a really long hard think about the downsides, both of the property and location. We didnt really do that, and now we are stuck with a less than ideal property in a less than ideal location. Dont get me wrong, it's not dire and all the issues are manageable, but with the benefit of hindsight we wouldn't have moved to where we are.

Apart from leaving our 'life' where we are i'm not sure there are any. I'm massively hoping @crust ends up doing the same and we're not far from one anohter still for riding, but other than that we have nothing keeping us in our location.

There's aspects of this i can't put into enough words how much it'll make our life better for example, currently we're averaging 8-10 hours driving a week to FoD and back and £40-60 in fuel and snacks/coffees etc. When we're living within 15 mins of there then that changes the whole dynamic. You add onto that this weekend we're driving there again (2 hours) then driving to Dyfi on Sat afternoon for the Sunday riding, the Dyfi trip from current home is 4 and a bit hours and goes down to 2hrs 35 from the new location, which again is HUGE for us...

The only real downside as i say is motorhome parking on any/all of the properties, but again, we don't have that where we are now anyway.

[Horse]

Baffled by a new property that's come on the market in our village. Same size as ours, arguably a bit of a bigger front garden, but it's £75-100k over ours.... looking at it, i can't see how that's even slightly possible.

Just sold my mother's place. One estate agent suggested £425,000

Another, that we went with, suggested best offers, with a guide of £350,000. We sold for £375,000.

[weeksy]

Baffled by a new property that's come on the market in our village. Same size as ours, arguably a bit of a bigger front garden, but it's £75-100k over ours.... looking at it, i can't see how that's even slightly possible.

Just sold my mother's place. One estate agent suggested £425,000

Another, that we went with, suggested best offers, with a guide of £350,000. We sold for £375,000.

Funnily though, it's the same agent who valued both houses.

[Yorick]

When you have decided what to buy have a really long hard think about the downsides, both of the property and location. We didnt really do that, and now we are stuck with a less than ideal property in a less than ideal location. Dont get me wrong, it's not dire and all the issues are manageable, but with the benefit of hindsight we wouldn't have moved to where we are.

Apart from leaving our 'life' where we are i'm not sure there are any. I'm massively hoping @crust ends up doing the same and we're not far from one anohter still for riding, but other than that we have nothing keeping us in our location.

There's aspects of this i can't put into enough words how much it'll make our life better for example, currently we're averaging 8-10 hours driving a week to FoD and back and £40-60 in fuel and snacks/coffees etc. When we're living within 15 mins of there then that changes the whole dynamic. You add onto that this weekend we're driving there again (2 hours) then driving to Dyfi on Sat afternoon for the Sunday riding, the Dyfi trip from current home is 4 and a bit hours and goes down to 2hrs 35 from the new location, which again is HUGE for us...

The only real downside as i say is motorhome parking on any/all of the properties, but again, we don't have that where we are now anyway.

Some new housing estates have rules banning works vans and campers.
Just something to be aware of.