Would you buy a house....

[LovingTheSunshine]

...that ticks most of your boxes but is frowned upon b/c it is on a large development? We have viewed a house that could tick most of our requirements (wish the garden was a bit bigger) but I have heard snobbery from friends that it is a large development. I have a few friends who live on the developments & they are very happy & it is a nice place for children & in the catchment area for good schools. It is a bit further away from town than where we are now & is probaly a 25 minutes walk, which I do not think is too bad. Would you consider it? DH & I are confused b/c of the snobbery we have heard!! Thanks

Having lived on a modern estate - I couldn't get out quick enough. Funnily enough I moved there beciase it had a fab reputation - nice "executive homes" close to the country side, lots of young families.

I wish I hadn't listened to people who were and wanted to live there. Never been so miserable in my life, and people just couldn't undertand why I didn't love my "executive" detatched home.

Don't listen to anyone else!!! Live where you think will make you happy!

was wysteria lane that bad???

I'd buy the house and kick the friends into touch.

All that matters is that you like it.

We are going to go back for a 2nd viewing. I have butterflies in my stomach - is that a good sign? Yeah, it is as I am feeling excited

'there is snobbery in uk re new houses'.

When my mum came here (from europe) we had to go to a friend's house to drop something for her ds. (this friend is erm wealthy and her victorian fab house in a good part of london cost nearly 1m).
We came out and mychavymum said: 'poor things. Can't they do a second job or something?'
Me: mum, they have a very good income.
Mum: then why do they live in an OLD house? did you see that fireplace? Is too old.

We don't have class in my family (we are foreigners)

LOL Laquitar

I never found freezing half to death and literally burning money to keep half-way warm as charming in the least.

Being cold has no soul.

The combination of cold and the smell makes it depressing for me

Unless these friends are paying the mortgage it isn't any of their business.

They are probably jealous they can't live there.

I live in a modern house on an estate.

It's very practical : warm, in good repair, low maintenance.

The children can play out safely with their friends, which is a big plus for me.

I'd like a bigger garden though in an ideal world.

I love winding up the neighbours by calling where we live an estate.

Most modern houses built to a plan are on some sort of 'estate'. A development smells as sweet by any other name.

And that smell is not milldew. Unless of course it's a Victorian estate (mushrooms grew in the hall, there, not the garden; but that was another life).

Modern all the way!

Winding up neighbours?! Oh, man, not only are we forever renters but also it's a FLAT.

haahahaahaaa.

Good thing this area isn't big on snob factor.

As if I'd give a flying fuck.

Some of my neighbours are snobby - they think that the word 'estate' holds negative connotations. They prefer 'development'. I think it's a bunch of houses all built at the same time on roads with associated names. So what.

The OP's friends would perhaps be snobby about my snobby neighbours, and about my modern house. The Victorian estate I lived on was very grand, and I'm fairly sure that none of the snobs would have been snobby about that. But someone would have snobby about it once, I'm sure, when it was new, and 'soulless', and a bit, well, brash?

So my point is, really, who cares?

have been snobby

If you like it, go with it, it's your house after all, not your friends!

I don't get snobbery of areas, however personally I dislike newer buildings in general (unless they are completely hi-tech themed!) as I really love old houses with character and all of that millarky (my explanation for my personal preferences against developments!) however some of them look like lovely places, and, as others have surely mentioned, everything should be in working order! Unlike what you will find in the older houses

Your friends sound like arses tbh, tell them where to stuff it if they complain, your house, not theres!

We need to have a 2nd viewing before we can decide if the house is for us. TTYL

Had 2nd viewing today without our son in tow & got to have a good look round to see if the house would work for us. Unfortunately it is too small & too near an A road. We had though about converting the integral garage into a playroom but it is only 7'3" wide so would be too narrow once it had been plasterboarded etc. On with the search, don't know how much more I can take with the stress of house hunting!