to hate Americans because of...

[SpeedyGonzalez]

this

Read the description. That's £246k for the lot.

ad infinitum.

Add another for me. I've seen newly built houses in Texas. Pretty, surrounded by woods, much higher build quality than our flat here in the UK, and so cheap they are practically giving them away for free.

I want to move over there, have a lovely house with a porch, a big kitchen and back yard, buy an old sixties car with tail fins and have barbecues. I just hate the idea of not being allowed to dry my washing outside in that back yard. Seems a waste. Sigh.

YANBU, I hate Americans for the same reason and I AM an American.

We moved up here because the property is so cheap. Would probably make a very long commute for most mn'rs.

I too am I wannabe American. I want a big house with a den and a veranda, to be able to go skiing and surfing in one state, drive big cars and to be able to get away with using the endearments 'cookie' and 'cupcake' on my children. Plus American history is fascinating all 500 years of it

I used to live in California. We had to rent as couldn't afford to buy at that time. Would have to win the lottery to be able to buy anywhere decent.

I drove across Texas once and couldn't get any other music on the radio except Country and Western. I then had dinner in an italian restaurant and not a drop of red wine was served there but the whole town was alcohol free.

I would love a proper American porch and can't understand why we dont have them here. Even in the rain, you could sit out, on a swing seat, drinking coffee. There is no UK equivalent really is there? That wouldnt look mad, anyway.

I love California, and all the other places in the USA that I have visited.

My friend arrives from LA for 3 weeks on Tuesday and she wants to live here. I have suggested we do a swap for a year

Also, since it's a listed building, you wouldn't be able to do anything to it, exterior or interior without permission from the Historical Society. Good luck getting that.

It would cost a fortune to heat.

And air condition.

And, yes, property taxes. And federal taxes. And state taxes. And sales tax. All at different percentages for different things.

YABU. With the shocking state of the economy over there you wouldn't be able to pay your mortgage and it'd be repossessed. You also wouldn't want to live in North Carolina, it's an arm pit. Wood houses are difficult to maintain and horrible to heat. You'll be painting it every 2 years and fighting a constant battle against rot and termites. Oh, and don't forget, it's in The South. Seen Deliverance? It's not quite that bad but they are about 100 years behind the rest of us. One more word: hurricanes.

Before anyone flames me I am an ex-American very happily living in England. :)

i was going to say amityville too they also have those weird massive cellars

Nah, its made out of light wood and siding. Its wh they issue weather warnings if the breeze is 20 mph. And its as humi d as a sau a and over hundred degrees.
I lved there.
Country and wesyern

The thought of Sarah Palin as a possible next president would put me off. Nice house though. Country and Western. No.

It's probably haunted.

what a lovely house, but mine is made of stone :) So when the wolf comes we'll be fine.

I wonder what sort of insultation it has? how do they keep that huge house warm?

I was ready to jump on you for racism, but having looked at that house - i hate the fuckers too

I think it looks like the little house on the prairie, and i want it, i want it NOW!!

PA - not racism - xenophobia. Gingerism is nearer to racism than anti-Americanism - proof in the words, I need to use "anti" for the one against Americans!! - and there's a debate ongoing just now whether or not gingerism IS racism (it isn't but it's still nasty).

Curlyboy - how very rude you are. I'm assuming you aren't from the deep South? I am an American (living in England) and I am from North Carolina. It's a beautiful state and not 100 years behind the times.

OP - pros and cons to everything. It's a gorgeous house but America is a completely different lifestyle. I prefer England for many reasons and would find it hard to go back, not least because of the oppressive heat you get from May-October in North Carolina, but my god I'd give my right arm for an American sized washing machine and an american sized refrigerator.

Nah. Looks like the sort of house from a horror film.

Ha ha expat just read up thread!

TarheelMama - You got it in one. I'm a northerner, from Chicago to be exact. I should have been more specific in my comment. I should have said: "some of their attitudes are 100 years behind the rest of us". What's with the whole remember the south thing and the flying of confederate flags? Glorifying the pre-civil war south only glorifies the institutional racism that still exists. Sorry to be so rude but it probably would have been better to let those states secede.

God it's gorgeous-I want!!!!

I've always wanted a veranda and one of those screen doors that creaks a la the Waltons. Kind of like those cute paper bags they have packed lunches in too,those fridges,non shoe box size rooms,proper road trips......

It's the space I envy,being able to jump in a car and drive for hours through completely different states.If you were bored you could just drive from one side to the next and be in a completely different climate,ok maybe it would take you 2 weeks but you could never get cry boredom.

New York,San Francisco,Yosemite,San Juan Islands,New England,Florida,Monument Valley.......

guess I'll just dust off my Cool Camping guide to Cornwall-again!!!!!

Start drooling :)

www.amazon.com/Americas-Painted-Ladies-Celebration-Victorians/dp/0140238573

We lived in the US, houses are very cheap there outside the big cities as the population density is pretty low.

"and drive for hours through completely different states"

Shouldn't that be drive for hours and still be in the same state, almost lost the will to live driving through Kansas!

Having said that, I'd pack my bags for the USA in an instant if I had the opportunity to live there again.