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to think SOME people that live in period houses are pretentious twats

133 replies

carriedababi · 09/02/2011 15:44

i find it weird how people in small victorian terraces are snobby about new builds, someone i know who lives in a really small 2 bedroom victorian terrace,

complains [frequently] that new builds are built too close together, and have small gardens..

when their victorian terrace has no garden only a yard, and its in a row of about 20!
they couldn't have packed in more houses!

the stairs are really narrow and steep
theres no where to park,so its parking wars with the neighbours, everyone has wheelie bins in the front, well, yard bit that about 2-3ft deep.
so the whole street looks scruffy all you can see is bins everywhere

so, i can't really see how someone can complain new builds have small gardens and are built too close together when they have no garden and the house are built 20 plus in a row!

i can understand people that live in fabulous detachted georgian house etc being a bit snobby, but it seems to me the ones in the small terraces that are most pretentious

OP posts:
Hullygully · 09/02/2011 16:53

For the millionth time - that is NOT Pag's house, it is her Great Aunt's who she looks after in hope of an inheritance. She has a chalet round the back.

TrillianAstra · 09/02/2011 16:55

Instead of red rug and the bat, the test now for a namechanging regular should be:
who hsa a big becautiful house?
whose DH lost a car?
who has a crazy SIL?

JamieLeeCurtis · 09/02/2011 16:56

yy

bupcakesandcunting · 09/02/2011 16:56

JamieLeeCurtis, thank you. I can be heard shreiking "Property? property?! HOUSE, you fucking TIT" at Location, Location.

JamieLeeCurtis · 09/02/2011 16:57

TIT is my term of choice too bupcakes

GwendolineMaryLacey · 09/02/2011 16:58

Was it Pag who had the mystery car parked in her drive?

JamieLeeCurtis · 09/02/2011 16:58

Bup

I think they are told to say it. Like people on Supermarket Sweep were told to keep saying "Dale", and people on Egg Heads are told to string out the blindingly-obvious answers

bupcakesandcunting · 09/02/2011 17:01

Ha ha ha, Jamie. I said that to my mum the other night about Eggheads. "They MUST tell them to string this out, it's ridiculous."

Especially when CJ does it, makes me want to kick the telly through the wall.

thefirstMrsDeVere · 09/02/2011 17:07

I like excouncil houses 1930-50s. They are good and square and have big gardens and usually a larder.

Of course I would prefer a late victorian rectory but no point in eating my heart out is there?

Not keen on new builds but at least they have at least two bathrooms. Some of them are very sweet looking, like dolly houses.

y sister has one because her OH wouldnt live in anything else Hmm. I know she would love something older.

bupcakesandcunting · 09/02/2011 17:09

Oooh, we lived in an ex-cahncil when I was a child. It's my favourite house that I've ever lived in. Next to fields, nice old biddy neighbours who used to do tea parties for all the kids on the street, larder with ants, those nice 1930s fireplaces...

thefirstMrsDeVere · 09/02/2011 17:16

We moved into ours from a flat. Those big victorian things scared the life out of me.
We do need a bigger place really but I love my little house.

Nice and solid. (fingers crossed). AND it doesnt get cold.

I grew up in a terraced 1880s house. It was fecking freezing and had a bathroom tacked on the end of the galley kitchen. You had to walk through bedroom two to get upstairs to bedroom 3 & 4.

Give me my cahncil ouse any day mate.

FerociousBeast · 09/02/2011 17:20

"i can understand people that live in fabulous detachted georgian house etc being a bit snobby," Oh yes they have a right to be snobby and we should all tug our forelocks whenever we see them.

MardyBra · 09/02/2011 17:20

I'll settle for pag's cutlery drawer if she won't let me live in the cupboard under the stairs....

WimpleOfTheBallet · 09/02/2011 17:21

I have lived in both and prefer the older ones. I'm in a souless modern house atm and it's BORINGLY warm, dry and rat free.

Give me a house with a history any day.

Amieesmum · 09/02/2011 17:23

haha maybe a little. I complain constantly about my 400 year old detached cottage. It' cold, dark and falls apart a lot. But... wouldn't swap it for a new build :D

Amieesmum · 09/02/2011 17:30

Should add the vicar & his wife are buried in the garden too :D if thats not creepy i don't know what it!

bupcakesandcunting · 09/02/2011 17:31

OH. EM. GEE

medley · 09/02/2011 17:43

I was once in hospital, recovering from a serious illness, and the woman in the next bed to me, whom I didn't know, commented to her partner on 'all the stuck up people' who lived in the street I just happen to live in. I said nothing but was really offended. People in nice, period houses aren't always pretentious or stuck up. Be careful about sounding like an inverse snob.

Sidge · 09/02/2011 19:19

Some new builds are lovely, but IME they tend to be the top-end pricewise. My friend has a lovely big, spacious, well built new build with lots of storage space and a good sized garage, parking and garden. It is quite close to her neighbours, but no more than many older houses. I know it was expensive even for the area though.

I live in a 60s semi - fairly naff in some ways but has huge windows, tons of storage, large bedrooms, and a large plot. No period features or history but I'd rather have the space and light.

diabolo · 09/02/2011 19:26

Well I live in an individual new build that's solid as a rock and designed like an early Victorian house (think the Playschool house).

Solid walls and mod-cons. I love it.

But it's got a small garden.

Can't afford both!

brimfull · 09/02/2011 19:33

Well OP i think you can change that SOME in your thread title to MOST judgiing by this thread.

Wirlies · 09/02/2011 20:00

OP-
I think you're complicating this thread by insisting on talking specifically about these people with tiny terraces and NO garden complaining about the size of the new build gardens.

Is there someone in particular that you're thinking of that has annoyed you? It's just I've never heard someone with NO garden complain about the size of new build gardens. Does that make sense ?

I know that there are many pretentious twats out there (myself included, as I sit at my desk in the alcove next to the fireplace in my bedroom of my victorian terrace) but I think the reason you're having to ask the same question over and over again is that we've not actually met anyone with no garden who complains about new build gardens.

ReindeerBollocks · 09/02/2011 20:00

I lived in a new build and adored it. I was adamant that we would buy a new build.

Until DH and I moved into our Victorian terrace. It's about the same size plot as our new build was, but the height difference means we get a lot more light in our Victorian home. I love the fact that I have cupboards to store our odd bits and bobs like the Hoover/ childrens paraphernalia.

I genuinely loved the new build until I moved into the Victorian house, and now I would never consider buying a new build, it's not an inverse snobbery issue, but I thought I could live without fireplaces cupboards and real Walls - until I experienced having these things and I love them. I wouldn't want to raise a family in a new build now.

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 09/02/2011 20:07

want to live here, and I cannot believe how cheap it is either !