Good house in an ok area, or adequate house in good area?

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[B5234FT]

All depends on the area.

I'd go for the bigger house in the OK area, but we may have totally different ideas of ok....

[Diggs]

You can't guarantee that an area will stay the same, but you can make an educated guess based upon what is likely to be allocated for housing in the next Development Plan. Note that any development of over 10 dwellings will probably have an element of 'affordable housing', but this doesn't mean the tenants will be chavs. Who of the older ones here didn't start out in a rented house?

You need to ask yourself what it is you want from the house - is it somewhere you can swing a cat or somewhere you can't but it looks pretty? As my Mrs always says, make a list of what you need, what you want, what you don't want and then decide...
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Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting...

[Ste]

[mudcow007]

Don't rule out the "scallies - have car will travel"

I moved out of the ghetto where I grew up into a "leafier" end of Liverpool an have had issues with tealeaves trying to break in

So just because its a nicer area doesn't mean you cant get scallywags

[panrider_uk]

[colink98]

Neighbours cant be cunts in any area posh or not.

We are currently selling our house (SW16) and looking to move outside of the M25 to somewhere a bit less busy and maybe a nicer house.

i keep telling the wife its no good painting a whole area with the same brush, 30 min's in a car you can go from nice area to shit hole and back again

i do think you can tell a fair bit by going to the nearest shopping centre, ours being Croydon (what a dive).....
We recently visited Maidstone town centre and found it far far better.

one this that was very obvious is the amount of rubbish and shit people just discard on the floor in London.
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PCX125 (stolen) - CBF600 (current)
Ride it like you stole it.
ride sensible and not like an idiot and you wont get 6 points in one week.

[B5234FT]

The other thing to remember is that you're a biker (or I assume you are if you're here) which means you enjoy a fairly uncommon hobby which isnt widely socially acceptable and will result from time to time in trailers, vans, noisy motorcycles, working on your driveway and other things most of us consider 'normal'.

If you go too nice on an area, it will be full of the sort of people who have never opened the bonnet on their car and their reponse is either intriuge, or hatred

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[stevo as b4]

Is it essential car maintenance only you will be doing at said house though, or are we talking projects?

In my experience people don't generally mind someone fixing something however strange it looks to the clean hands non bonnet lifting majority of the UK.

But they don't feel the same love for seeing cars up on axle stands for months or the sound of you breaking out the angle grinder, and they especially don't look positively to seeing engine cranes and engines sat on a pallet in the front garden either.

[mudcow007]

https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/OnslowHouse_zpsqxjdq03q.jpg

https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/248e705b90921b53e733ec1c40afb434_zps1iczdwzp.jpg

[colink98]

[angryjonny]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Update: ended up with best of both; entered a bid on 'posh', got into a bidding war so bailed.

Right decision, as one round the corner got reduced, bid on that and was accepted. Has better views, bigger rooms, bigger driveway and a garage.

Slightly less 'posh' but nobody's going to bat an eyelid if I'm running my compressor or have a project car or bike on the go.

Looking forward to kitting out the garage with racking, and seeing the lathe over on the other thread has got me rubbing my thighs in anticipation.
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[arry]

Yay for being a homo-ner.

[mudcow007]

whens the moving in do?

[Hong Kong Phooey]

^ lol yeah right. I think the sound of assless leather clad Harley riders revving their engines outside might have me marked out as someone not to be messed with. Hmmm could you move a sofa on a bike?
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[Motorhate]

[arry]

[grr666]

[colink98]

[arry]

[M.C]

[grr666]

[thx1138]

I've got a not great house in a fantastic area

not great in that it is a circa 1870 terrace, no off street parking, no garage, no easy access to rear of property

but I live in a genuine urban village, loads of little cafes and second hand shops, can't walk more than 50 yards without seeing someone I know by name, I'm right by a park and the river, and from there can get out into the country park. Five minutes jogging and I can see farmland.

could of got a semi 2 miles away with garage and drive way, but there is no real community there

been here nearly 20 years