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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
Personally, I'm far happier in my mid-terrace than a Barratts shoebox.
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It's horses for courses, and down to personal choice, but so am I.
I've lived in properties as diverse as an eighteenth century, five storey house built for the Huguenots in Spitalfields, to a brand spanking new city centre loft apartment in Glasgow, and now I'm very happily ensconced in a traditional nineteenth century Lancashire terrace.
I posted on here years ago, that in London and the south the typical mill workers terraced housing, that we still have an abudance of, would be refurbished, and cherished as part of our historical heritage, rather than be cleared, to make way for 'better' housing.
I remember much of the stone built terraced housing in Church was demolished in the seventies, and new, 'better' housing replaced it.
Thirty years on, the replacement, 'better' housing has had to be demolished.
My house was built in 1870, and will still be here in sixty years time, when it reaches it's bicentennial.
I rather doubt if many modern built houses will still be standing in two hundred years.