There is a man in our local paper doing the sad face photo in front of the for sale sign on his house.
He claims he has had to reduce the price because of the noise and smells 'hell' from the local businesses.
Here are his complaints (all of which he has submitted though the proper channel and the local buinesses have had hassle for):
The two pubs in earshot have people smoking outside and have live music at weekends. (They are working mens club type places)
He put a special complaint in one Saturday in summer, when a pub had a family fundraising day. Bouncy castle in the car park, punch and judy, kids playing on the public playing field, bands playing inside the pub. £2000 raised for help for heroes.
The chip shop, indian takeaway and chinese restaurant smell and attract teengers
The care home and school cause parking issues.
The royal mail sorting office has traffic early in the morning.
Because of all this, he has had to reduce his asking price from £500,000 to 'only' £300,000. There are no other houses right in the village centre (only the flats over shops and the care home) and the entire town was built at around the time he bought his house in the seventies. His house is detached with a garden, but average price for a four bed semi in the mile radius is about £120,000, and none of those houses are smack bang in the middle of what isn't really a residential area...
Aibu to think he needs to just realise he is being daft, reduce the price to take into account where his house is and not just how big it is and move to the countryside?