| Living on your own? City centre flat, for sure. Time enough for houses and gardens when you're settled down. Nothing more soul-destroying when you're on your own than living in a family house and suffering a long commute. |
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StixxUK 8,755 posts
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Registered 19 years agoFlat all the way. Get a decent one, and get an electric drum kit! -
localnotail 23,079 posts
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Registered 13 years agootto wrote:
He wants to share with a mate, he hates other people's noise, and he's got a drum kit.
Living on your own? City centre flat, for sure. Time enough for houses and gardens when you're settled down. Nothing more soul-destroying when you're on your own than living in a family house and suffering a long commute. -
1Dgaf 5,211 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'd imagine sharing with a friend who can't pay rent - as well as planning anything with him in mind - could be a recipe for disaster.
He moves in, can't pay, you get pissed off, friendship ends.
You wait for him, he gets offered a job away from the flat, he leaves, you don't have enough cash now he's not coming, friendship ends. -
Phily50 2,384 posts
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Registered 15 years agoGround floor maisonette=best of both worlds. -
Getting out of a long-term relationship would for me be the excuse to get a city-centre flat on my own, wild horses would not make me share with a mate or live in the suburbs, but each to their own. -
Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAfter years spent living in different flats, each and every one of them possessing at least one neighbour with a fucking shite taste in music only matched by their need to play it loudly all the time, I can't say enough how much less stressed out my life is living in a detached house.
I'm also very sensitive to noise pollution; it took me many months to get used to the traffic on the road outside of the house, but at least I don't have to worry about some twat rolling in at 4AM with a burning desire to listen to frigging trance music. I can't say I miss being able to tell which room my upstairs neighbours are in through the medium of their thoughtfully installed hardwood floors much either. -
eleven63 3,052 posts
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Registered 17 years agoOr go for an older (Victorian) place - at least they knew how to build them... flat or house, well built and with character...
/would say that living in a purpose-built, ground floor, sole use, 2 bed flat, built 1890... -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years ago1Dgaf wrote:
I'd imagine sharing with a friend who can't pay rent - as well as planning anything with him in mind - could be a recipe for disaster.
He moves in, can't pay, you get pissed off, friendship ends.
You wait for him, he gets offered a job away from the flat, he leaves, you don't have enough cash now he's not coming, friendship ends.
I know that, and I know the risks, which is why I want somewhere I can afford if for whatever reason he finds himself without a job or needing to relocate. I'm factoring in that possibility. -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoPhily50 wrote:
Ground floor maisonette=best of both worlds.
Ground floor = easy to break into. -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoKhanivor wrote:
After years spent living in different flats, each and every one of them possessing at least one neighbour with a fucking shite taste in music only matched by their need to play it loudly all the time, I can't say enough how much less stressed out my life is living in a detached house.
I'm also very sensitive to noise pollution; it took me many months to get used to the traffic on the road outside of the house, but at least I don't have to worry about some twat rolling in at 4AM with a burning desire to listen to frigging trance music. I can't say I miss being able to tell which room my upstairs neighbours are in through the medium of their thoughtfully installed hardwood floors much either.
The places I'm looking at are a few hundred yards outside of town, not by a main road. And I wouldn't consider anything not on a top floor, for footstep reasons. The music thing is just as much an issue with attached houses, and you have to go quite a way out of town (or into the areas with £3k+ a month rent) to find detached stuff. -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSmuggo wrote:
Zomoniac wrote:
Phily50 wrote:
Ground floor maisonette=best of both worlds.
Ground floor = easy to break into.
Zomoniac = paranoid crazy
Yes, I'm well aware of that. It's not something that most other people consider, but it's sort of a deal breaker for me. -
MrCarrot 3,524 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSmuggo wrote:
Zomoniac wrote:
Phily50 wrote:
Ground floor maisonette=best of both worlds.
Ground floor = easy to break into.
Zomoniac = paranoid crazy
Either that or a burglar... -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoOk, so it's right next to a motorway, but other than that this looks cool. Top floor(s), about 500m from my office and fucking huuuuge. I could have drums in the bedroom and not annoy the neighbours! -
In the flat I'm in now with the girlfriend I was pondering one day how we have actually been very lucky in having great neighbours that don't play shitty loud music or shout all the time. As it is almost impossible to not find at least one flat occupied by such people.
The it occurred to me that we were those people. We are the cunts next door that are always playing shit too loud and shouting all the time. In this building we are those cunts.
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Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThe bedroom looks like a set from a bad TV sci-fi show :S -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoblizeH wrote:
Do it.
Sadly I'm contracted here for another couple of months and can't afford to pay for that and my current place or I would. On the tiny, minute chance it's still available then I'll be on it in a heartbeat. It's the first place I've seen I've been genuinely excited by. Most of the city centre flats have bedrooms the size of a bed, no wardrobes, nowhere to put in a wardrobe. They only seem suitable for naturists, certainly not for people where they might actually want some stuff that isn't kept in the living room. -
speedofthepuma 13,428 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThat flat looks amazing. -
Hunam 20,675 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'd buy that for a dollar! -
speedofthepuma wrote:
Expensive, but bloody stunning.
That flat looks amazing. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoExpensive? Meh, move to London pal, mymplace is more than that and about a quarter of the size. -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agomowgli wrote:
speedofthepuma wrote:
Expensive, but bloody stunning.
That flat looks amazing.
It is expensive, but my current place, a four-bed detached about 3 miles from Sheffield centre, costs £800 a month. Factor in the £200+ a month I spend on commuting to Leeds, plus the extra cost of heating somewhere that size, and it'll work out roughly the same. So, false economy, or something. -
Tomo 19,565 posts
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Registered 18 years agoFor a two bedroom place like that, £1,100 isn't bad.
Oh. It's in Leeds. I thought we were talking London. That's fucking expensive then
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Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoTomo wrote:
For a two bedroom place like that, £1,100 isn't bad.
Oh. It's in Leeds. I thought we were talking London. That's fucking expensive then
I said I wanted to leave Sheffield because it was a shithole, not leave because I aspire to live in the one place that's worse! -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSurely if a ground floor maisonettw gets you worried about burglary, so will a house? Can understand the worry but at the end of the day, that's what insurance is there for. -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDougs wrote:
Surely if a ground floor maisonettw gets you worried about burglary, so will a house? Can understand the worry but at the end of the day, that's what insurance is there for.
Yeah, which is why I'm leaning towards a flat. What is a ground floor maisonette anyway? If it has people living upstairs then that's the worst of every possible thing, surely? -
I can see where Zomaniac is coming from here about the living above ground level thing, you need to feel secure in your home and insurance doesn't take away the feeling that someone has forced their way into your home and gone through your things. It'll recover the material cost of your lost belongings but it won't get you back your photos or the coat you've had for 10 years or your FF7 saves on the stolen memory card...
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