How bad is a north facing rear garden?

[bajanasinpajamas]

We currently have a south facing back garden. Have SSTC, and are looking around but very little on the market. We (I) had my heart set on either west or south facing rear garden, but there is NOTHING!
We’ve seen a couple of houses that tick most boxes except they have north facing rear gardens. All I want is to be able to sit out in the evening sun after a day at work - is there going to be any chance of this ?

It's fine, I don't know what the big deal is. I certainly wouldn't rule out a huge list of perfectly nice houses otherwise. But I'm not really a sun worshipper, happy to get a bit of shade when it's hot.

My back garden is north-east facing and gets decent sun most of the day.
I've got strawberries growing along my back wall. I'd say the sun hits them about 9:30am, and is off them about 8:30pm.

I think it depends a lot on what shape your house is, and how overlooked you are.
My house is a 1960s dormer-roofed semi, so doesn't have a huge "sky footprint" so to speak. The surrounding houses are similar, and they were further spread apart in those days, so they don't get in the way.

Horrible, so depressing. I would never do it again. I can do all the other 3, but not north. Agree it depends how overlooked you are, size of garden etc. I like privacy in my garden, so high fences. I'm not a sun worshipper, but I like sun/warmth, and hate dark and gloomy especially for my home too, I like the light coming in.

My north facing garden isn't dark or gloomy,as we have a detached bungalow the sun comes over the roof from the south.. before that the sun is in the conservatory and on the patio from the east, working it's way round settling in the west in the evening..it's not damp either as a lot of people in real life imagine. We're opposite the South Downs, which often stop the rain getting to us. At the moment after the first spring since records began,we are struggling to keep it watered. We actually love gardening which is why we have 200 ft overall. Would have liked a few acres but it's the biggest we could afford.

Driest spring, phone altered that!

We have a north facing garden (in Berks) and sit out in the evening with no problem. It gets a full share of sun and there's never been any plant that's refused to grow because of the orientation.

OK, we have no buildings on either the east or west sides to block the sun, but being north facing doesn't bother us.