Idle speculation after watching a film today - how much do one of those spacious white clapboard houses in the States cost? And what's their house price to income ratio like?

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Not that I want to move there, I don't but just wondered. dh and I both said "wish we had a garden like that" while watching a film this afternoon. And those type of houses seem bog standard in many family movies. Are they? Is property a lot lot cheaper? Everywhere in the world?

Aitch link doesn't work, again pls

www.mysharona.com/index.htm

br, they are generally not brick-built - don't know what the construction method is, but possibly the equivalent of timber-framed.

The house we lived in was built in c 1930 - clapboard outside with some kind of cavity walls, solid wood floors inside, sash windows with storm window inners, a cellar and a verandah. Big solid cast-iron radiators. Dead basic for the area but a fab house to live in.

she's the real one. although she looks unnervingly like alanis morissette.

WWW - off topic, I know, but just read through your link re. protests from Mnet and RC's apology. Thanks for posting it.

pmsl at that, had no idea, remember the song, it was one of the first singles I ever bought. The Knack iirc

Aitch, now the houses on her site are proper property porn!

(you're welcome DH, it was a good response wasn't it?)

Bridget Jones had parents who were so posh they said in plummy tones "Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire" so she probably had a leg up with her flat.

I'm annoyed at everything being so expensive. Can't we call a halt to it now?
I decided the other week I wanted to live in London again. Dh said 'fine, find a house'. They were all upward of a million where I was looking [nose in air].

I know 100x, I buy the Standard on property day for a laugh on the train on my way home.

My parents said up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire and they were dead common!

I knew you'd say that, WW

I predicted it in my head

Do you yearn WWW? I thought I was over it, but then spent weekend there and came back and well, looked and looked and looked. . . .

I want to move "here www.homes.com/Content/ListingDetail.cfm?&PropId=50567373#"

It costs less than our small three bedroom London terrace with no garden.

We have been to Natchez and it is very pretty (biggoted and sweaty but pretty).

Not really 100x. I would only want to move back to London if we could afford a decent 5 bed+ house somewhere reasonable so maybe Chiswick (used to live there too) or somewhere else in west or SW London AND a nice country house too.
I like the countryside within reach of London so home counties suits us well. And when we buy we will get a decent sized house here which we wouldn't there.

I like London a lot but imo it's at its most fab when you can spend unlimited amounts of money (as in 5 star hotels with dh, 4 extravagent days in Feb with ds showing him sights etc, both of which I've done this year). I commute to a particularly unsalubrious part of it every day though!

That's nice artichokes, is that a garden room too? Wow. lovely.

How bigoted? How sweaty?

It's got the wooden floors and everything.

lol 100x

Its not just a garden room, according to the blurb is a historically signifiacnt plantation with some of the best maintained out buildings in the Deep South. It even has a doctor's house and servant's kitchen on the grounds.

I want it NOW

at 100x

There was a young lady of Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez
When comment arose
On the state of her clothes,
She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez!

Lol 100X. Quite sweaty. Was 90 degress when we went in April. Quite biggoted too - one farm we passed enroute had a mock lynching at the foot of the drive. The guest house we stayted in would only let us share a room if we were married.

On the bright side it was a good place to go to feel thin, most inhabitants appeared to weigh over 300lbs.

Have you ever looked at real estate on Ebay.com it's crazy, some go for really low prices - I guess they are in really grotty areas, but the houses are still big!

(Ogden Nash )

Thanks Br, I will look at those, I also have lofts in NYC open in another window.