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AIBU to dream of buying this house?

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Unsure72 · 15/11/2018 10:28

AIBU to dream of giving up the rat race to buy this?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76698701.html

It's a total pipe dream, obviously - I have no idea how DH and I would earn an income or anything like that. But imagine waking up to that countryside every morning!

It also seems like great value for money, given that amount wouldn't even buy a studio flat in my part of London.

Anyway, back to the real world...

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Echobelly · 15/11/2018 11:57

I love visiting the countryside for a stay, but living there is another matter - no way!

florascotia2 · 15/11/2018 12:01

Each to their own, of course, but in my experience peacocks are incredibly noisy - shriek, shriek, shriek. And also thump, thump, thump if your roof is low and they like to perch or roost on it. Furthermore, peacocks, like some other birds, can be fascinated by their own reflections, and - if male - often like to attack them. You should see the damage they can do to the paintwork of a nice shiny car.

They do look lovely, though.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 15/11/2018 12:14

£365,000 for a place with only 2-3 years left on the lease??

They've got to be joking; it's more a "donation" to the Duchy (with a guaranteed headache over re-negotiating the lease) than an actual purchase

So much for Charles's much vaunted concern for rural dwellers - not that some of us believed the twaddle talked about that anyway

viques · 15/11/2018 12:16

Phew! had to check it wasn't my fantasy house, otherwise I would have had to track you down and eliminate you OP.

fluffy persian don't get peacocks, they are vile birds, very noisy and territorial, a friend had some in what they thought was a rural retreat, their nearest neighbours were half a mile away and they ALL complained about the peacocks. Over the course of a few years all the birds disappeared or died, mostly runover. I always reckoned the neighbours saw their chances and didn't swerve........

DonDrapersOldFashioned · 15/11/2018 12:17

Charlie boy is the ultimate CF landlord, then.

thereallochnessmonster · 15/11/2018 12:17

There are very few pics of the house, which is very dated.

Also, there is no bathroom!! Check the floor plan...

The surroundings are lovely, but you're not going to be living in the paddock or on the hills... and what is that collection of ramshackle outbuildings? No thanks.

daisypond · 15/11/2018 12:19

There is a bathroom. It's upstairs, and there's a downstairs loo as well.

Penguinsetpandas · 15/11/2018 12:19

I love the views and location but wouldn't touch that lease or ground rent. We moved to a lovely thatched cottage in countryside from London this summer and views are amazing and no crime.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 15/11/2018 12:21

Also, there is no bathroom!! Check the floor plan...

Huh?? It's on the first floor ... though granted there are (perhaps fortunately) no photos of it

DinoDave · 15/11/2018 12:22

I’d hate it...so isolated.

I live in a small village...plenty of countryside around but only only ten minutes by car to the big city centre.

I love the country but day to day I’d hate not seeing people/having neighbors.

MeVoila · 15/11/2018 12:27

I'd love it for a month in summer but I wouldn't want to live there, despite its fabulous, wildly romantic setting.

JugglingMummyof2 · 15/11/2018 12:33

Nothing to add except littlemisscomper I have copied and pasted your response into an email to myself to ground me in my mad ' Wouldn't it be lovely to retire to the country" moments.
You have really made me laugh.

loveka · 15/11/2018 12:37

I have just bought a 4 bedroom house with a 1 bed annexe 5 minutes walk from the beach with half an acre for £345k!

So I would keep looking if I were you!

We are quitting the rat race and will be setting up a business letting out the annexe.

The person looking for a house in the south east with land, how about finding a house which has allotments behind it? The house we are leaving has a gate going into allotments, as do all the houses surrounding the allotments. So we had, in effect, a huge garden despite living in a tiny cottage.

Bear2014 · 15/11/2018 12:39

Beautiful but I grew up in the countryside and I'm glad I now live in a city. It's not as idyllic as you might think and it's also pretty boring in my opinion. Kids spend their lives being ferried around in the car etc. I love having everything on my doorstep, being within walking distance of friends etc. Not sure I could give it up.

SweetSummerchild · 15/11/2018 12:43

For someone who is unable to drive on medical grounds, it looks like a prison sentence with no chance of parole - albeit a very picturesque one.

I’d rather live in suburbia, where a pint of milk is a 5-minute walk away and I only have to wait 10 minutes at the bus stop before I can get a bus to a decent-sized town centre.

Places like that are nice to visit, but I’d never want to live there.

Seafoodeatit · 15/11/2018 12:48

Lets face it though if you're buying a house with that little lease left, it's probably a cash buyer? probably a holiday home. I could be completely wrong it's just what springs to mind. I agree with others that you could get lots of other lovely rural properties for a similar budget without so many issues.

EdisonLightBulb · 15/11/2018 12:54

what's the blue painted thing on pic 5? surely not a swimming pool on Dartmoor?

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Unsure72 · 15/11/2018 12:54

I actually grew up in the countryside before moving to the city, so most of the things on littlemisscomper's list wouldn't bother me! DH on the other hand is a real town/city dweller, who would probably be bored to tears within five minutes.

As MeVoila said, it's just so "wildly romantic" - being able to walk from your garden straight onto the moors would be fabulous. And it's only a 20-mile drive to Exeter too - the best of both worlds?

The lease is definitely a deal-breaker though - paying thousands of pounds a year over to Prince Charles would be galling to say the least!

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Unsure72 · 15/11/2018 13:02

Maybe something like this house (in the neighbouring village) is a more sensible option!

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55412439.html

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Notso · 15/11/2018 13:03

It's not for me I'm a town mouse. I couldn't be doing with having to drive everywhere all the time. I'd stay there on holiday though.

Juells · 15/11/2018 13:11

Maybe something like this house (in the neighbouring village) is a more sensible option!

Oooh that's lovely. Apart from the bathroom which would give me the heebiegeebies, the stairs needing carpet, and the risk of flooding. But I'd be prepared to accept those drawbacks.

Bluelady · 15/11/2018 13:26

That Postbridge house has got a poxy little kitchen too. Needs a lot of money spent on it.

Tobebythesea · 15/11/2018 13:26

Is that a swimming pool I can see?!

littlemisscomper · 15/11/2018 18:02

@JugglingMummyof2

Heehee! I love the country but sometimes I think the sky-high weeds grass is greener!

@Tobebythesea

I don't think it is a pool or they'd be boasting about it! I've got plenty of rain for that parade too, if anyone is considering one and needs a reality check?

Floods123 · 15/11/2018 20:14

I live near there. Love it.

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