To ask if you think this very ‘unmumsnetty?’

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If someone were looking for a place to live and there criteria were -

”I’m looking for somewhere run down with a few ropey pubs”

LIGHTHEARTED

What’s your budget and how many bedrooms? You live alone presumably?

Ah those pubs sound great 😊

I know what you mean, I love an old man's pub.

i live alone - budget - well tbh budget isn’t relevant in the sense that it’s nostalgia what drive this thread !!

budget - potential up to 600K though

Me too 😊

Don’t mind me lol it was meant to be lighthearted as I’m a bit nostalgic for the area I lived in mid- late 2000s

It would definitely be unMumsnetty if you moved to an area like that, put a hot tub in the back garden, and sat in it drinking rum and cokes, snacking on crisps and enjoying a good vape. For extra unMumsnet points you could also invite your mother-in-law round for a chat and a laugh.

Then actually opening your front door when you hear the doorbell would put you in the gold medal position in the anti-MN Olympics.

Yes!! I lived there 2005-2008

I think there’s probably a serious thread underpinning this

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You’re probably right !!

Folkestone in Kent, or kemsley in sittingbourne are both like this...

This sounds like where i live 🤣

£600k would get you 2 houses and change. I had a school pal who's parents managed, somehow, to get 2 semi detached next door and they knocked them through into 1. Was the most bizarre mansion right in the middle of a sink estate 😂

Aldershot

I know .. it would probably be different actually getting down to every day life there once the novelty had worn off

Haha yes would poss be my definition of ropey lol!!

Foord in Folkestone is the EXACT area that inspired this thread lol - I lived there mid - late 2000s

I know Sittingbourne main high street but not Kemsley specifically!

Haha omg !! 🤣

I think asking batshit questions like that is pretty mumsnetty.

Plymouth or Bristol, great places to live but a bit rough around the edges. Still possible to nab a doer upper bargain house wise.

Ah, you had the thread a couple of weeks ago about Foord and how Folkestone has changed.

The East Kent Arms on the High Street is still quite like that. Probably the Black Bull as well. Anywhere else central or near the harbour arm is entirely gentrified.

Ah 2 areas I’m not familiar with

So the criteria for the estate agent is easy “area must be a shit hole”.

So maybe start a thread about why you’re so unhappy and you want to move to start afresh