Living next door to a graveyard

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Found what looks like a lovely house online (ticks all our boxes)... BUT it is next door to a burial site (developed old church building now flats is next door but the churchyard/burial site remains. My first thoughts are "creepy", but a few friends have said it wouldn't bother them... curious to know if anyone has lived next to a burial/churchyard, or dismissed a property because of this?

I would check the parking, people park outside the houses near our town graveyard.

Sounds great, nice and peaceful and not much light pollution at night if you are star gazers.

I would love this.

In my church days I substituted in a parish living in a house in the graveyard. Nice and peaceful. Woukd do again.

I’d be quite happy with that.
Its quiet, has a bit of an historical feature, wildlife/no houses,

I mean I’m sure you’ve wondered around old graveyard before and didn’t think twice about it no? Like around an Abbey (let’s say a Whitby abbey), where you just walk through the graveyard to get to the Abbey.
I would see it the same.

The dead don't hurt you... they also make perfect neighbors.

A skeleton never threatens you, has loud parties, parks blocking you in, bangs on your door late at night, cuts down your tree, steals your packages etc...

My son used to live next to a beautiful churchyard in a small village - it's not creepy at all!

It might be a bit unattractive to live next to a huge municipal cemetery but not a churchyard, IMO.

No way. When the living dead rise again and stalk the streets, you will be first in line.

OP, what is the concern you have? Ghosts? If so, and as someone has said up thread, it’s the living that we should be the most afraid of, not the dead. Graveyards are quiet and peaceful places. One less potentially problematic neighbour to worry about. I’d go for it.

As a kid my bedroom overlooked a graveyard. Very much freaked me out and I always wanted the curtains closed. Not sure my parents knew how much it scared me.
Depends on your children if you have any but also how you speak to them about it, explain death etc

I think if you buy any house of age there'd be a risk of "ghosts" if that's your belief system....so it's not so much that, just a kind of sadness attached to a graveyard, I think... if that makes sense... a daily reminder of mortality, but maybe that's not such a bad thing, gratitude wise?

Don't be so sure. On my Deeds, it says there is a graveyard 100 metres from my house. It's now a car park with flats next to it.

I live next to a graveyard. I don't find it creepy and agree it's actually quite a grounding and thoughtful place to live near.
It's not too tidy so also good for wildlife and has a poignant loveliness to it.

Graveyards are the most peaceful humbling places. I'd love it.

I would assume things might move a little slower when you come to sell it, but otherwise I would see it as a plus

Depends on the location. Some graveyards can be placed where drug addicts congregate. Even some prostitution in the graveyard at our inner city church. If it’s rural I wouldn’t be bothered. Maybe you will end up being inspired by it like the Brontes were and write gothic fiction!

We lived in a converted Norman church. Surrounded by graveyard and gravestones in the basement.
The most peaceful, serene place we’ve ever lived.

Might as well get it over with.

I used to live next door to a very old church that had a very old graveyard - it wasn't my apartment as I moved in with a previous partner who owned it. There was no curtains or blinds up (not sure why lol) and I used to see lots of bats flying around the graveyard as it started to get dark - it was far from creepy though and I used to love the view. It's true what they say though - the dead can't hurt you it's the living you need to watch!

We're currently renting a property overlooking a cemetery at the back. I like it! Quiet neighbours and difficult to redevelop.

I used to live in a house that backed onto a graveyard. Loved it. Wish I still did. They were very quiet and considerate neighbours.

We're next to an old church with one. It has literally never entered my mind that it's weird or creepy.

My ex boyfriend lived next to a church which had a grave with both our names on!

Names changed obv-
Here lies Stephen Michael Wood and his wife Catherine

You could see the grave from his bedroom window.

I wouldn’t voluntarily and you’d be sharing the soil with the deceased and I wouldn’t want to grow any vegetables or anything like that to eat

We overlook a graveyard complete with church.

It's peaceful, full of wildlife, full of flowers particularly in the Spring and in fact quite lovely. It is also extremely unlikely to have anything built on it.

I highly recommend living next to a church yard.