would you buy a house with no garden (if you had a 5yr old and a 2yr old)

[JackiePaper]

have seen a beautiful house, in the middle of the countryside, really lovely but it has no garden.
dh thinks we could manage but i'm not convinced. Would it be really difficult?

No, I also think that for a charactar house it is very dull inside.

Also, you could say it is a worthwhile trade off for us to have tiny garden for easy access to everything our city has to offer, but no garden in the countryside wouldn't make sense to me as less handy for town/school but no dedicated outside space for them either though obv lots of country walks with you etc.

No don't, we have no garden, we have a park immediately outside and then a huge empty green space but mine are too little to use it alone (3 and 1) the older kids around here are happy as they have a huge space to play with friend but with little ones its awful

No. But then I really want a garden and don't have one (have a yard).

Some people do not like gardens. I have a couple of friends who do not bat an eyelid with no garden, but they are strange!

I personally think if you are even asking the question, you will not cope.

I know you aren't asking for opinions but is that really the best England has to offer at that price? Are you really tied to area? The outside is pretty but it seems to have been gutted inside.
If you read the details they are certainly not expecting it to be interesting for families. Perhaps ask the agent to do the legwork for you re-local land. But if you have to walk over the road for it I think it defeats the purpose. If the field was a dream garden could the children be there unsupervised? Would it be secure? Do you want to pop across the road to get a handful of herbs? It's an odd way to live a life.

I would only consider it if the house was magical. Do you think that house is?

not for that house

a friend has just done it, but her kitchen door actually opens onto the village park

now look at this one's garden

or this one

or even this one

Looks gorgeous from the outside but not that great on the inside.

The outside of the house is stunning. Inside it is clean and polished and has matching furniture and is 'done up'.

But take away the furniture and the tidyness and it really isn't 'all that'.

And as for that 'breakfast kitchen'?

Um yeah, If you're a mouse.

Or the Borrowers.

Lovely house but the no garden thing would be a deal-breaker for me. No way could we do without a garden. They spend hours out there exploring, finding bugs, digging, swinging on the tree, checking on the veg patch etc while I get on with things undisturbed in the house. And no garden would mean no barbecues, no paddling pool on blazing hot days.
No, don't do it if you value your sanity.

We have moved from a courtyard garden (16ft) to a massive garden with a climbing frame and goal.

Our life has been transformed. DS1 is 3 and it is great to be able to throw him out while I can see him from the kitchen or potter about in the garden with him and DS2 (5 months).

When we lived in London we always met lots of children in the park as noone has a garden. Now we have moved, he does miss the sociability of the park but when we go, there are very few children there as they are all at home in their gardens.

It would only work if there was a great park nearby and nobody else had a garden either, which doesn't sound likely.

Sorry.

Have you actually been to see thehouse yet. No problem in looking then you can see whats around.

However saying all that, there is no way I would buy a house without a garden.

\we just moved into our new house last week with what feels like to me a huge garden. It was a requirement of the house - no big garden for the kids and us, no go.

I used to nanny for a family with a beautiful houseopposite regents park. Teeny tiny garden and whilst the park was great, I wouldn't have liked the fact that I couldn't have my breakfast in the morning sunshine, or enjoy a glass of wine and bbq with friends on a summers evening. Also with the kids I had to take them across two major roads to get them to the park - total pain in the arse!

It's a new build, isn't it? Are the current owners the first owners? If they are just be careful that you're not paying over the odds to cover their over inflated purchase price (poss just pre slump)

Absolutely no way. We don't have a garden at the mo and despite being surrounded by parks and playgrounds we are desperate to move. You end up spending your whole weekends out in the summer

MrsBadger's houses are lovely. I'm not keen on the one with no garden. And wouldn't buy a house with no garden.

mrs badger - those houses are lovely but the area is wrong. we need to live in romsley or clent as that's where the kids are at school and close to motorway for dh to get to work (need to be worcestershire council not dudley). unfortunately in the area we want there is not much for sale at all. we could have a beautiful house with garden down the raod in stourbridge/halesowen, but we don't want to live there.

thanks for all the advice, you are of course all right, we won't go ahead with that house. I don't think the kids would cope without a garden and the area doesn't seem 'family' orientated iykwim either.

ho hum the search continues

what about this one

what about this one

or this one

or this one