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What type of housing would you not want to live?

299 replies

WomenHour · 04/09/2020 22:38

House , Flat Penthouse , Caravan etc

I would probably not want to live on the top floor of a massive block of flats, couldn't be bothered.

OP posts:
Bargebill19 · 06/09/2020 13:21

@newsheadlines

You may well have a point there!
Hubby grew up in a city and would happily live in one again. I grew up in countryside and hated being in a city - although I could see it had good points.
On the other hand, we both grew up in largish homes. Now we live in a narrowboat.!

Kljnmw3459 · 06/09/2020 13:38

I wouldn't want to live higher than 5th or 6th floor of a block of flats. Or ground floor flat in a city centre. Both for safety reasons. I've never had a good experience of living in a bungalow. Moldy and dark. Houses with lots of stairs. Houses where the entrance has lots of stairs.

PatriciaPerch · 06/09/2020 13:40

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Parker231 · 06/09/2020 13:45

New builds - prefer properties with character

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 06/09/2020 13:50

A house where the livingroom and kitchen aren't on the ground floor, makes no sense to me at all!

1940s · 06/09/2020 13:57

One of those biiiiiig open type minimalist places with nothing at all on show. Always looks so cold no like cosy comfort in my house

Hingeandbracket · 06/09/2020 14:03

Most new builds - they are all so identikit - your house is the Beamish and your Neighbours have a Severn argggghhh like living in a car showroom - you have a BMW 218 and your neighbour has a 316 to live in (actually, thinking about it, the compulsory BMW/Merc or Nissan Juke on every drive on new builds is another thing).

SerenDippitty · 06/09/2020 14:06

@Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese

A house where the livingroom and kitchen aren't on the ground floor, makes no sense to me at all!
Sometimes it's because there are spectacular views from the upper floor, so that they can be enjoyed properly during the day and not when you go to bed at night and it's dark. But if it's just a normal townhouse then yes it's a bit daft.
Thurmanmurman · 06/09/2020 15:01

@LolaSmiles. If the thread was titled 'what would be your dream home', that would be different, but basically people are listing what's undesirable and no doubt some folks reading this, who have no choice other than to live in high rise flats etc, are probably feeling pretty shit. Would you say to a friend who had just bought a new build or a terraced house that you wouldn't touch one with a barge pole? I doubt it.

R3ALLY · 06/09/2020 15:03

I live in a standard three bed semi with garden and busy family and I fantasise about retiring to a small apartment, high in the air, just me and my books and my thoughts!

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 06/09/2020 15:09

I hadn't considered the views. But then I'm a city dweller, so the only views you get are next doors garden haha

Suzi888 · 06/09/2020 15:18

A flat with no balcony.

DrCoconut · 06/09/2020 15:27

Any that's in a village. The majority I've stayed in are too far from amenities and a little bit Royston Vasey/nosey parish council. Give me Tesco and school a 10 minute drive away and neighbours who don't care what colour I paint my fence or whether or not me having a 16 year old car devalues the street 😂

LolaSmiles · 06/09/2020 15:48

If the thread was titled 'what would be your dream home', that would be different, but basically people are listing what's undesirable and no doubt some folks reading this, who have no choice other than to live in high rise flats etc, are probably feeling pretty shit.

Would you say to a friend who had just bought a new build or a terraced house that you wouldn't touch one with a barge pole? I doubt it.
My friends know that lovely as their city flat is there's no way I'd want to live there and wouldn't touch London with a bargepole. They feel the same about where I live because there's not enough going on for them and they hate gardening so wouldn't want the hassle of a front/back gardening.

Neither of us have got offended or felt shit because we have different preferences on where to live and what sort of properties like.

I'd also hate to live in an old stone cottage as the ceilings are low and I'd feel claustrophobic. One of my relatives lives in one and loves it.

One person's cosy is another person's cramped. One person's modern open plan is another person's soulless and clinical. If people can't deal with that then then they need a thicker skin.

Elephantday82 · 06/09/2020 15:54

Anywhere without a garden.

Onestepup · 06/09/2020 16:19

Lola those examples are about choice, not necessity.

LolaSmiles · 06/09/2020 16:47

Onestepup
Ah right so people are fine to have opinions on where they'd like to or not like to live, just as long as they don't talk about it anonymously on an internet forum where randomers make themselves the opinion police.
I see.

Based on the logic on this thread it's snobby to say you wouldn't like to live in a flat, but then if you point out that this also applies to a friend's flat that's worth more than my house and then suddenly that's also not ok because, well that's choice (which is amusingly the topic of the thread asking people what they'd not like, or choose, in a property). Hmm

Out of interest at what point is it acceptable to say that you wouldn't like anything? Or should everyone never express their preferences in case someone online takes offence that not everyone wants the same thing?

BubblyBarbara · 06/09/2020 17:39

Ah right so people are fine to have opinions on where they'd like to or not like to live, just as long as they don't talk about it anonymously on an internet forum where randomers make themselves the opinion police.

There seems to be a big rash of this sweeping MN in the past few weeks in particular. People being called rude or vile just for answering a AIBU in the wrong way etc. Too many younger women trying to be “cool” with each other.

PurpleFlower1983 · 06/09/2020 17:41

A flat or a modern 3 storey townhouse with their living area on the first floor, you may as well be in a flat.

Thurmanmurman · 06/09/2020 17:50

@BubblyBarbara. I'm not young or cool! I just think it's a shit thread. Clearly nobody would choose to live in a high rise flat on a dodgy estate but unfortunately that's some people's reality. Others highlighting how much they would hate it isn't insightful or interesting, it will only make those in that position feel like shit.

userxx · 06/09/2020 17:53

High rise flat.

Southwestten · 06/09/2020 17:58

I wouldn’t want to live at Chatsworth

LolaSmiles · 06/09/2020 18:01

BubblyBarbara
There is a bit of that.

I'm still entertained that it's fine to say I wouldn't like to live in a cottage, but it's snobby to say I wouldn't like to live in a flat and when I point out that applies to all flats, including my friend's which is worth more than my house then that's not ok, just because, well it's not.

Going to guess that it's probably also ok for people to say they wouldn't like to live somewhere with a big garden, or wouldn't like townhouse living, and totally fine to say they'd not like to live in a village. There's probably a list somewhere of 'acceptable things to say you dislike / things to claim outrage if someone doesn't like'.

TheDuchessOfAquitaine · 06/09/2020 18:43

Townhouse. Just so impractical and all the bloody stairs.

Batshitbeautycosmeticsltd · 06/09/2020 18:48

A flat. Anything attached to another home, people suck and I hate being subjected to other peoples' music. A home on more than 2 levels. A period property that hasn't been completely modernised.

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