to think this house is great if you don't want nearby neighbours?!

[Nomoreneighbours]

here:

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/121071542#/?channel=RES_BUY

Living in a typical suburban semi on an estate where the non attached neighbours are only 8ft away...plus the ones over the road, behind etc this looks like paradise to me.

Unfortunately its too small for us, we need more space downstairs and 4 beds, and an extension that big would cost ££££s (our total budget is £400k). Nice to dream of views and no immediate neighbours though!

Just laughing at all the people who think living rurally means you're going to get thieves breaking in all the time. I've lived rurally most of my life, as rural as that house. Lived in cities too and now in a small village. I've only ever had someone try to break in, while I was in the fucking house, in the city. It's easier for them, they can target more houses quicker in an estate. The amount of people I see on fb groups in the same city still who say 'someone just tried to open my door, lock your doors folks'. Which idiot doesn't lock their doors anyway?! I lock mine even if I'm in the house, and thank god too or the outcome would have been very different. Thieves tend to move on if it's locked, unless they know of something valuable inside. It's not worth the risk otherwise, trying to pick the lock or smash their way in, which would attract attention.

You are safer in the countryside that the city by far. And no teenagers going round egging houses or throwing rocks through windows. That house has two neighbours too from the looks of it on the map, although it doesn't have a great driveway. Good amount of land for extensions though, you could make it nice but it would cost a lot.

Wow, it’s lush. Imagine the peace you’d get!

it's beside the A5, noise and pollution

@08:49squashyhat you see they wouldn't bother me, I hardly noticed them tbh as was such a large open view! It is also alot better than looking at a row of houses opposite or similar.

That house is lovely Blackmagicqueen, it's amazing country there. I've lived in Todmorden itself before, to be honest wouldn't again, but the country around is amazing. Only trouble for me is I think it might be over the border in Lancashire

Cute house but a bit small, it's lacking a garage or sheds but I suppose they can be added. Also a bit exposed, I like more trees and hedges near a home.

Little update, I drove out to have a look at the house yesterday, not a viewing or anything but I was interested to see how it looked, how big the land was and how much you could hear the A5.

House is very pretty in real life, the locations is just lovely, down a country lane which has a field at the bottom, fields on all sides. Although it is rural, it's only 10 mins by car from Shrewsbury and less from Wellington so very convenient.

The house itself does look quite small and it is right on the field at the back so at harvest time you'd potentially be very close to the action! The land doesn't look quite as big in the flesh, there is a wooded area on one side which I'd probably want to clear and put a garage there or something. The A5 can be heard once you get out of the car but it's not overly intrusive, and that was on the lane so a fair distance from the house itself. I couldn't hear the road at all from inside my car. There's some kind of access route between the edge of the garden and the neighbours land which doesn't seem to belong to either house, I'd definitely want to know whose land that was and where it leads.

So overall it's lovely and if I had a bigger budget or needed a smaller house I might be tempted to make an offer. But as things stand sadly it's not for us.