to hate Americans because of...

[SpeedyGonzalez]

this

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

ad infinitum.

omg. That would buy me a dull three bed semi in a new build estate where i am. janey mackers.

snot fair. but hang on. Where is that? Is it near anywhere you'd want to be?

It's strange isn't it? A pack of wild horses couldn't drag me back to live in the US. I only came here because I met a nice lass and got married but I have fallen in love with this little island. The States are a great place to visit but but NOT to live.

Ok, first of all, to all of you presenting me with the impracticalities of living in a timber house in the Deepish South with taxes coming out of your eyeballs and ghosts coming out of the woodwork: purleeeease! I am thoroughly enjoying my envy; I have no time or space for such practical nonsense.

Secondly, clearly what I need is a house that looks like that, but overlooking the sea in my lovely Blighty, with all my loved ones in similarly fab homes. And all at that price, obviously. Anyone fancy building one for me?

I agree Speedy! The UK needs lots more lovely painted homes to break up the drabness of stone and brick. That's one of my very few complaints about living here.

YABU. 'Cause there's one that looks just like that down my street that's only $179,000. Plus then you'd have me for a neighbor, and that's priceless, dearie. :o

But it's in Minnesota and you'd have to heat it in -40 temps. So...there is that.

Your thread got me thinking.... because at first I oooh and ahhhhd, but then I thought ok WHAT could I get for that money on home turf? and if i were prepared to move to kerry, or carlow, I could get some lovely houses, beautiful stone barn conversions, massive new build houses ten times the size of what you'd get in Dublin,. Or an old rectory that had seen better days.. BUT THE WEATHER WOULD STILL BE SHIT.

CheerfulYank I imagine you'd be a brill neighbour!

Curlyboy I know, people other countries know so much better than us lot
how to pretty up their houses.

I feel quite sick with jealousy.

YANBU.

Some people in England have already been busy with their paintbrushes

Colourful houses

Those are cool Tyler !

Nice house. Lousy thread title.

Hmmm. One of my guilty pleasures is looking at American property porn. Tis wondrous - ALL THAT SPACE. Keep imagining a huge craft room for me, a den for DH (not sure what he'd do in there - something manly) and enough room for at least six greyhounds. Bliss.

Our house is little but we've got a huge yard. I grew up on 23 acres, though, so it seems small to me. :)

another mid-westerner here. our house here is about 3 x the size of our last one in the UK, and it cast less in $$ than we sold the last one for in pounds!!!

it took a couple of years to settle, but now i shudder when i think about what returning to the UK would be like, and how much it would cost.

overcrowding is not pleasant, and i'm not used to it any more.

still miss my family though.

(Waves to semi-neighbor kickass)

I can't do the over crowding thing either, but I've lived in rural Minnesota for my entire life, pretty much! Some friends and I were watching the Hangover 2 last night and the shots of Bangkok made me physically shudder...all those people in that little space!

But I know people who LOVE city living so it's all down to taste, I s'pose :)

Yanbu, I am American and love to look at u.s. property porn too, even despite our recent and ongoing real estate devastation. We live in an expensive area and ogle the incredible places one can live in, in less expensive areas.

But i have to say i find UK and Irish weather far more agreeable and clement, comparatively. I am always envious of the climate and gorgeousness when we visit. I loved living in Edinburgh.

I would love to see the UK! One of these days...

I think we're very lucky - we live near a city so can do concerts/movies/theatre etc, but still have that whole small town feel, and it costs about 1/3 of the area in the UK we moved from, so feels like luxury.

I find the weather in the UK quite agreeable too. I certainly don't miss the extremes of Chicago. Upper 90's and humid in the summer and -30's in the winter with feet of snow? No thanks! I like how the UK is never too hot or too cold. Sure, more sunshine would be nice and it'd be great if they could get their act together with snow removal when we get some, but you can't have everything.

The city we live in is big enough to have everything but not too big to be that congested. It only takes a 15 to 20 minute drive and we're out in the country. While in the US you can drive coast to coast here you can drive to a whole other continent! There's not much that's cooler than driving onto the Eurostar and driving off in France!

YANBU I want a house like that
If I could I would move to the state, my dad lived there for 20 yrs before I was born so have heard all the lovely stories about Texas. Must persude DH to move but was told that its hard to emmigrate there now.

yanbu
I have a friend in the US who has one similar but bigger. Bit wraparound veranda. That's exactly how much hers cost.
Whole playroom, den, basement guest quarters. Laundry rooms.
I have a 3 bed terrace that you can't swing a cat in, but cost 3 times the price

See I miss the extremes of US weather in the midwest, proper summer and proper winter.

Summer in Missouri is lovely and warm :)

It looks like the kind of house where there should be an albino kid out on the porch playing the banjo.