To be nervous to buy a house with no immediate neighbours

[Mum2HC]

Hello

we are house hunting and have seen a house that ticks all the boxes other than it is not in a village setting we are used to. My partner thinks it is perfect!
closest neighbour is about 200m down the road. Nearest town is less than 10 mins drive to the centre. There is a big Waitrose 5 mins away. Opposite (these are down a drive) a big golf course and tennis club.

would you be scared having no immediate neighbours?

thank you

Sounds perfect to me, plenty of outside lighting, crunchy gravel and an alarm if you are concerned.
We’ve always had dogs so I’ve never been worried wherever we’ve lived.
My mother lives in a detached house with the next neighbour a distance down the road and has never been broken into, she has visable cameras etc and yet my sister who lives in a small semi detached on an estate has been broken into twice.

Labour have stated the Greenbelt no longer has the protection it used to and in fact Angela Raynor will pull an application ( she’s done this near us for 2500 new homes ) and aprove it if it looks like the planners are going for refusal.
Developers have to jump through more hoops but Labour has taken away the protections of before.

Omg it sounds absolutely perfect!

How funny! A lot of mumsnetters are allergic to neighbours! There was one on who objected to the neighbours using their own gardens! Maybe you can swap with her?!

If it's any consolation, any attempted burglaries I've had have been when I lived in built up areas.

That sounds absolutely bliss to me.

I don't blame you..... I always have to "stack" my shopping list so I have a valid reason for going rather than waste fuel. Mind you, I do rely heavily on amazon as often by time I've factored fuel etc it's cheaper to wait for delivery.

Oh God for it, your not miles away from civilisation! If I could pick my house up and move it to the farmers fields by my parents I'd do so in a heartbeat!

Sounds perfect. After years of different selfish, noisy,nosy neighbours, when we moved last time, I insisted on detached,we live fairly near the edge of a village, but little parade of shops, Tesco extra. Unfortunately, only detached by the width of 2 paths. We lived right on the edge of a Surrey village,big garden,stream running through the bottom,with a little bridge over into fields with cows and horses.it was green belt and conservation area, lovely (horrible neighbours though) big Sussex building company got permission to build. Worked a night shift to find the stream had gone,and a 2 mtr fence erected. We tried to fight,were told the boundaries were inconclusive.we couldn't afford to take them on..

Yes I like having life around me. I’m a city person and anything remote would freak me out.

Sign me up!!

Yes, even though said neighbours were quiet and not doing anything to disturb her. Someone else recently worried because she never saw the woman and baby who lived next door, and the blinds stayed closed. And someone else, whose next door neighbour had died, was still worried about the empty house attracting rats. Once you add in the common or garden neighbour feuds about noise, fences, overhanging trees, hanging your knickers on the line, unkempt gardens, lawnmower noise before 8 am or after 8 pm, hot tubs, parties, bonfires, barbecues, screaming children, footballs, trampolines, garden rooms, curtain-twitching, parcels, parking, chatting over the fence, not chatting over the fence, it’s clear that having neighbours is dangerous.

We're moving to North Yorkshire from Hampshire - Hopefully next month (looking to exchange in 1-2 weeks). We needed a house with no neighbours as my life ls goal is to own peacocks and they are LOUD.

There are absolutely no neighbours anywhere near us - and yes, that's slightly worrying if my Husband travels for work and I'm on my own.

So...

1. We've been talking shotgun lessons and will be applying for a shotgun license / buy shotguns to shoot clays - so if we phone the police and say someone is breaking in, it won't be "Oh that's a shame, we'll be there next week as we're under resourced", it should hopefully be "There are firearms on the property? We'll be there straight away" (we have no intention of ever shooting anyone or anything living)

1. State of the art security system - laser beams, that if broken, alert you and can actually switch whatever you're watching on TV to the nearest camera.... CCTV all the way around the house and perimeter.... Panic buttons etc....

1. The usual signs of CCTV being up, dogs etc...

But honestly? The chances of anyone breaking in are pretty remote, we're not farmers, don't have any expensive farm equipment and we're so excited to live in the countryside with far more nature and screechy peacocks.

I say go for it... We actually love our current neighbours - they're friendly, non intrusive, we take packages in for each other, put each others bins back.... But we can't stay as they'd hate to be woken up at 5am by screeching :-)

I lived in this situation, rural, down a lane, no lights, next house about 100 metres away, next town about 10 minute drive. I lived on my own. During Covid too. LOVED it. I do like my own company but I can see why it isn't for everyone. A friend came to visit a few years ago and absolutely freaked out and couldn't comprehend how I could live in an old farmhouse on my own 'in the middle of nowhere'. I played my music as loud as I liked, if work would have permitted.it would have been perfect for a dog, toyed with getting a rescue donkey at one point.

I have lived beside horrible neighbours and it's always pot luck who might move in next to you, so my theory is, if you only have yourself to worry about then there is no issue.

Sounds amazing.

Me too, lovely for a week on holiday, but I love the convenience of living in a city.

I hate having to go everywhere in the car. It was a pain when the kids were younger that they didn't have a way to get to school (even at secondary - no bus close) so do think that through. All four passed their driving tests at 17! My dream is to move to somewhere vibrant.

Its perfect. Not isolated just peaceful and easy access to town and Waitrose.

I can’t relax unless I’m in the middle of a noisy city haha! Maybe I’m just in denial..

Waitrose 5m away, neighbours 200m away sounds fine and quite normal tbh when living rurally.
If you said nearest shop an hr's drive and nearest neighbours 5miles away I could understand your apprehension but no immediate neighbours is absolutely a bonus imo.

Having close neighbours doesn't deter burglars in my opinion. Have cameras and floodlights, and a gravel driveway does help because you can hear people walking or driving on it. You have other amenities that are close, so don't worry about the no immediate neighbours.

It’s bliss do it! I live fairly rurally but have 2 neighbours close enough to see/hear but other than that there’s nobody around. The only downside is that I have to drive everywhere but that’s a small
price to pay for peace

I think good neighbours are amazing but bad ones can ruin your life

so on balance, none at all sounds great

but is the land around the house suitable for future development? That would worry me

ps although I love the idea of no neighbours I uttterly despise the idea of being a slave to the car. I like to be able to use my feet.

but that might not be the case for you

I have lovely neighbours on one side and it is nice to have a chat, see their little children and they have also helped me with my bin on a few occasions so that is the sort of neighbours I value. One the other side I have the neighbours from hell, shouting and yelling all day, periods of drug dealing, fly tipping, house very overcrowded to the extent that the council are taking action (though when that is ever going to be resolved who knows?) and they are just generally horrendous. So on balance no neighbours sounds like heaven on earth.

I hear you, oh I hear you. I hate mine so much that the mere thought of them makes me angry. They went away for 7 weeks in the winter and I felt so different, and even began to hope that they had cleared off. The evening I saw their lights come on I actually cried.