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To think this house is too remote to be feasible

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HungryHouseHunter · 17/06/2024 17:04

Name change. Posting in AIBU for traffic. We are considering putting an offer on this house. It's exactly the style we want with more land than we wanted but I'm worried it's too far from Winchester where we started looking. To get the train station I'll need to drive, to get to the shops I'll need to drive! Does anyone do this ? Do you end up resenting the inconvenience? For example I couldn't just pop out for a big shop, I think I would need to drive to Winchester and pay for parking etc. Would need to pay for parking at train station when using it (at least twice a week). Do these things just get more and more annoying. Currently live somewhere where car isn't even really needed.

Also value for money?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145236887

Check out this 6 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

6 bedroom detached house for sale in Shepherds Lane, Compton, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 for £2,450,000. Marketed by Savills, Winchester

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145236887

OP posts:
Lastarse · 17/06/2024 17:11

Too late. I’ve just snapped it up for my portfolio OP, but thanks ❤️

SweetLathyrus · 17/06/2024 17:11

You're not going to need to pay to park at any of the Winchester markets (Sainsburys Badger Farm, Tesco Winnall, or Aldi/Waitrose Weeke).

BIossomtoes · 17/06/2024 17:11

It’s only three miles from Winchester. 🙄

Gabbsters · 17/06/2024 17:11

Yes, we have to drive to buy a pint of milk (well, you can cycle but it's 40 mins round trip). I enjoy driving so it's no issue for me and I think we've also got better at being organised with the shopping so we don't keep forgetting pints of milk (like you we were in a very different area before with shops on the doorstep). You can use the postcode to check whether you can get a supermarket delivery there.

To me the benefits of being very rural and remote far outweigh the inconveniences and that's never been more true than now, when you can get the paper on your ipad and order anything you want to buy online. But only you know how you like to live.

It's a lovely house. No idea about value for money as I don't know the area. Plot is a bit bleak but it's a blank canvas. Some people don't like GF bedrooms. Do you have a purpose in mind for the annex?

AgnesX · 17/06/2024 17:10

I wish I had access to £2m, what a fantastic location. As long as the landowners don't sell the surrounding fields etc.

I don't care for the property really, there seems to be a lift wasted space indoors.

Boopear · 17/06/2024 17:10

Notsuchafattynow · 17/06/2024 17:07

You could get a supermarket delivery.

And if you can afford the house, parking costs would be inconsequential.

I'm not remotely rural, but everything is a car drive away. (Apart from the pub).

Wrong thread 😫

BMW6 · 17/06/2024 17:10

I'd buy shares in Windolene if you do go for it.

JacquesHarlow · 17/06/2024 17:09

Mumsnet, please move this thread to Property - otherwise what on earth is the point of having separate forum areas?

Name change. Posting in AIBU for traffic.

look* *out everyone, someone important is here and needs ‘feedback’ NOW

Notsuchafattynow · 17/06/2024 17:09

There's alot of grass to cut though, so you'll need more than one brown bin.

Factor that into your offer.

Notsuchafattynow · 17/06/2024 17:07

You could get a supermarket delivery.

And if you can afford the house, parking costs would be inconsequential.

I'm not remotely rural, but everything is a car drive away. (Apart from the pub).

BeardedLodger · 17/06/2024 17:07

Well you're not going to get those views with a Tesco round the corner so YABU!

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