To think a great big semi or detached house must be SO lovely?!

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Terraced here. It's okay most of the time but I dream of living in a house with no fucking neighbour noise whatsoever. These walls are so thin I can hear the microwave next door. I dream of buying a semi detached in a few years with hallways next to each other separating the living rooms or when I'm really feeling ambitious I dream of a detached house, which must be the mother of all awesomeness. I know there is still 'area noise' but I'm not really a garden person so kids playing outside and lawnmowers etc don't phase me so much. But oh to wake up with no 'house noise' and to know I can sit in the lounge or lie in bed and have PURE SILENCE all day and not hear a dog bark or a door slam or an argument or a television. Is it as great as I think it is?

Yip, AMAZEBALLS.

Loads of garden space, huge playroom... No close neighbours.

We're in a semi detached.

Third lot of neighbours moved it last year and third time lucky; they're as quiet as mice 😁😁

We have a 1930’s semi doer upper. It belonged to a family of horders and has taken us five years so far and we are still doing it up. But I love it anyway, we only just managed to get the front garden turfed before it all kicked off. It was amazing watching dd run all over it bare foot smile beaming! It’s a small front garden but it’s starting to look lovely and I don’t wish for anything more.

I was worried when I moved to semi from a detached a few years ago post divorce (first world problems, I know). I shouldn’t have been. I haven’t heard one single noise from next door, only garden noise which you get nearly anywhere. My house is less than 10 years old but very well insulated, the kitchens, downstairs cloaks and 2nd bedrooms are attached so well designed.

We’re in a large detached farmhouse with thick walls and a garden and I’m so grateful for it during lockdown. When we downsize we still want a detached house.

Yes it is nice. Having gone from mouse infested bedsits in London, to a flat with damp and mould and a punk band downstairs, then to a cottage where you could hear the neighbour's son bawling at his parents, and now to a detached, I know where I prefer. The only drawback is heating it in winter! No residual heat from neighbours.

I live in a terrace house OP so I feel your pain! Our houses are built so close together were practically living in each other's pockets. Neighbours across the road have got friends round for a workout sesh in the garden (yep, I've been a curtain-twitcher) which is then setting off their neighbours' dog which has the loudest bark known to man and I can hear it all whilst trying to have a nice relaxing bath.
I dream of the day I'll be able to ditch this area and upsize!

Yep I love being detached!

I’m in a big detached which is great right now. Heating in the winter is not so good...

I moved from a terrace to a detached that's about 4 times the size, and honestly I think I may have gone mad in the terraced during this lockdown. It's bloody lovely to have a big house, and I feel lucky. Cleaning it is an entirely different matter though, it's like the painting of the Forth Road Bridge, just when you finish it's time to begin again.
I loved my wee house, was so cheap to run and keep, and was cosy and welcoming. You can be happy anywhere really, but during a time when the family is all at home 24/7, it's a treat to have the space for us all to do our own thing without being on top of each other.

I read something that made sense yesterday. Someone said "we're all in the same boat". Someone then countered that we are definitely not in the same boat, but that we are in the same storm, but all in very different boats. So true!

The irony is though as great as it is that you can’t hear them whilst they’re in they’d house, my god if you live on an estate there’s still always nose of some description.

Ours is detached but the dogs that bark in the garden can be heard throughout our house! Or when the teenagers living locally drive past is their ridiculous re-banned old cats with huge noises exhausts. Gets on my nerves that the parents clearly don’t think the whole street gets annoyed with the noise

I’d like to live in the middle of no where to be honest- but then I’d get annoyed

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Not at all, property price depends on area. A large detached in the country will be far less expensive than a terrace/flat in a pricey part of London.

Also we are all likely to have different stages at different ages. The first flat I bought was old and cold, no heating and I had very little money. We worked long and hard and put up with all sorts of shit and hardship to get what we have now.

Yes I've just moved from a terrace to a big semi with hallway separating living room from party wall. The only sound I really hear is in the back garden when they're out but we get along great so it's no issue.

My terrace had no garden or outdoor space at the back so I am SOOOO thankful to have moved before lockdown began.

If you're able to move after lockdown is lifted - do it!!

Brought up in flats where you couldn't walk because the neighbours downstairs would complain. Nice detached house now and would never if I could, move anywhere else. Difficult future as not getting on with DH so the option might not be there in the future.

This is possibly not a great time but we did soundproofing to our semi and we can't hear our neighbours at all now.
Something to think about if you have noise issues?

YANBU, i'd love a bigger house.
I'M going to stop buying clothes completely now, I really want to add to my savings so that I can one day move out of this tiny terraced house and in to a bigger house. Nothing against terraces, maybe a bigger terraced house. But three of us in 880sq feet, argh1

It is wonderful, we feel v fortunate to live where we do, in the middle of nowhere in beautiful countryside. I have lived in central London in flats and apartments and while it suited a time in my life, I would not want to live like that now. It is so lovely to sit in the garden and see the stars so clearly, we saw a shooting star last nght. Having said that I was woken at 5am by v v loud birds and my dogs are scared of the loudly hooting owls!

Yep, I used to live in a flat with people either side and above. Fast forward to now and we live in a detached house and have done since moving here over a decade ago.
I like being able to use the hairdryer, washing machine, hoover whenever I like - early morning or late at night.

Since lockdown, I keep telling my husband how lucky we are to live the way we do.

There's a good post on facebook about being in this together, but not all in the same boat.

Detached house here....but as I type this I can hear teenage neighbour (opposite) blaring his crap music out.....

It's pretty good to be honest. I wouldn't like to live in a flat or semi again. Mine is detached but very small. I'd much rather be detached and forfeit the space

I had a semi then a big detatched and now in a masionette, I agree its noiser but I quite like the noise, as it make me realise I am not alone..

It is lovely. I’m detached with a huge garden, makes this lockdown much easier.

I spoke to someone about insulation and the price is probably over £3k for my party wall as it includes caveat and radiator, this is only my first house and it didn't cost a huge amount (less than £115k) I wouldn't plunge that much into it unless it was a forever home!

Yes, it's great. I wouldn't dream of living in a semi, let alone a flat. I can't even bear to use a 'second-hand' toilet, so we were lucky to buy a large detached new build for our first home.