@plantpauper I also live not far from a train track I like to hear them. Noise is what you get use to but there are exceptions. There is a new build near to us that hasn't sold a few people have said about car lights being the issue. It was something that hadn't crossed my mind. Our new build also faces South the property behind hasn't been built yet. I am not a fan of the heat so when it is built I shall welcome it. The house across the road is the same as this with a house behind[back facing north] it was dark inside on a sunny day in spring. This is a problem with all new builds especially three storeys. I am confident my new home and garden won't be sunless even in the winter months.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
With age comes experience @GardenerSuze and having accidently bought my first house without a thought for aspect I have learned that I was very lucky. The back faced full south and I could relax and enjoy it. The people opposite at the front had to sit in their front garden. Not so relaxing and not everyone looks good in summer wear nor do they want to 'bikini' at the front of their house ! 🤢
The lights I became aware of in a friends house. They live at the entrance to a very quiet cul-de-sac but right facing the T junction so every car coming up the street drives straight towards their front room and both front bedrooms.
There is no doubt I will withdraw to purchase plot 141. Thanks you guys to pull me out for a 2nd thought! I suppose to pay for the reservation fee this Saturday. Probably will ask them if they can release any other plot on that development if not then there is no deal
Fingers crossed for your search, @matthewyupakkwan! It is a huge investment, so take your time. No property will be perfect, of course, but some compromises are easier to live with than others.
Have read all these comments with interest. Glad the forum was able to provide you with some good input @matthewyupakkwan and I wish you luck in finding a suitable plot. We have a different problem - we live in a mid-Victorian house on a fairly quite road but when big lorries rumble past, the walls shake.
I think the best advice I was given about house purchases was that no property is unique. If the location is wrong there will be others that will fulfill the criteria. It's an art to itself to keep your cool while the whole process feels like a lottery at times.
If you’re going to live in a house surrounded by others the idea of real privacy is a pipe dream … but it really is amazing how few of our neighbours are at all interested in watching what we get up to in the garden 😵💫 We really will have to try harder to be more interesting 🦸🧙♂️🧛♀️🧜♀️💃🏽🧞♀️🦹🏽♀️🤸♂️🧘♀️🤹♂️
Our immediate neighbours have got three cameras at the front of the property, and one at the rear. I've occasionally wondered whether I would end up on YouTube if I went down the garden in a clown costume!! He already complained that he didn't want to see me walking down the garden to water my gooseberries!! As if I'm going to change my pattern of behaviour just for him!! Some neighbours clearly DO have an interest.
The cheek of your neighbour, @rowlandscastle444! You have a perfect right to water your gooseberries (and do most other things people do in their gardens) without any comment, and certainly without criticism, from your neighbours. How could walking down your garden adversely affect him? I hope you told him you intended to carry on using your garden your way, and that he could lump it...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I did - or rather my wife did, as I'd just returned home from an extended stay in hospital, during July 2020. I continue to water my gooseberries - and the neighbour put up a 6ft fence, even though the boundary contained our 4ft fence. We used to talk to the previous neighbours. This one just acts like a prize idiot. If the neighbour wants to watch me on his cameras, he might pick up a few gardening tips. Not much more.
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Our new build also faces South the property behind hasn't been built yet. I am not a fan of the heat so when it is built I shall welcome it. The house across the road is the same as this with a house behind[back facing north] it was dark inside on a sunny day in spring. This is a problem with all new builds especially three storeys. I am confident my new home and garden won't be sunless even in the winter
months.
The lights I became aware of in a friends house. They live at the entrance to a very quiet cul-de-sac but right facing the T junction so every car coming up the street drives straight towards their front room and both front bedrooms.
Thanks you guys to pull me out for a 2nd thought! I suppose to pay for the reservation fee this Saturday.
Probably will ask them if they can release any other plot on that development if not then there is no deal
As if I'm going to change my pattern of behaviour just for him!! Some neighbours clearly DO have an interest.
I continue to water my gooseberries - and the neighbour put up a 6ft fence, even though the boundary contained our 4ft fence. We used to talk to the previous neighbours. This one just acts like a prize idiot.
If the neighbour wants to watch me on his cameras, he might pick up a few gardening tips. Not much more.