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Old Sep 25th 2013, 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by dbd33
It's only on 4 acres though, what if the neighbours are noisy, or smelly.
Are you sure you used to live in London?
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Old Sep 25th 2013, 2:40 pm
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Originally Posted by Shard
Are you sure you used to live in London?
Of course, but Londoners, being the salt of the earth, present no such difficulties.

It is, however, one way, perhaps the one way in which my perceptions have changed since I've been here. I now look at something like this:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-42061310.html

and think they've a bit of a cheek in using horses in the pictures since there's no land to put them on.
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Old Sep 25th 2013, 2:40 pm
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One or two?
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Old Sep 25th 2013, 2:48 pm
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This is the worst i could find. The master suite is almost as big as our house.

http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13361192

After looking at many beautiful homes i now have house envy.
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Old Sep 25th 2013, 2:50 pm
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Originally Posted by dbd33
Of course, but Londoners, being the salt of the earth, present no such difficulties.

It is, however, one way, perhaps the one way in which my perceptions have changed since I've been here. I now look at something like this:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-42061310.html

and think they've a bit of a cheek in using horses in the pictures since there's no land to put them on.
Estate agents, eh.
Pleasant interior on that one.
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Old Sep 25th 2013, 3:25 pm
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I'm with you on that. When 649 comes up....
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Old Sep 25th 2013, 3:34 pm
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Originally Posted by bats
You may have already seen it, but Huf-Haus was on one episode of Grand Designs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL55a9QgxpM
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You may have already seen it, but Huf-Haus was on one episode of Grand Designs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL55a9QgxpM
Yes, that's where i first saw them. Of course i am such a messy, dozy mare that it would not be minimalist inside for long but i suppose i i could afford one i could manage a cleaner or two.
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This is the worst i could find.
How about this for vulgarity

http://goo.gl/maps/WxZZ3
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I believe that all should post pictures of their houses on here and then we can all decide which of the posters houses on here are vulgar.

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I believe that all should post pictures of their houses on here and then we can all decide which of the posters houses on here are vulgar.

Here goes
I don't. That place in the photo is vulgar in the sense of being unsophisticated. But it certainly it doesn't have bling.
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I believe that all should post pictures of their houses on here and then we can all decide which of the posters houses on here are vulgar.

Here goes
Not only is that a silly idea, on a public form it's a serious security risk.
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Originally Posted by Jingsamichty
"European kitchen" is the best. They have no idea that a real European kitchen is 6' x 6' and incorporates a 30 year Baby Belling cooker attached to a gas bottle and a vinyl curtain instead of cupboard doors.
I've seen "European kitchen" in ads and assumed they meant "from Ikea."

Sadly, it seems that wealth is inversely proportional to taste in Calgary. With the exception of some of the older neighbourhoods, such as Mount Royal and Scarboro, expensive houses are ghastly. An oil executive built a new infill up the road from me last year. When my sister visited she was surprised to find a factory on a quiet residential street.
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At the other end of the scale from the gaudy-manors-of-bling, would somebody buy this guys friggin' house. Please?

http://stjohns.kijiji.ca/c-real-esta...eaturedAdZtrue
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At the other end of the scale from the gaudy-manors-of-bling, would somebody buy this guys friggin' house. Please?

http://stjohns.kijiji.ca/c-real-esta...eaturedAdZtrue
I don't have any outside pictures of our current house so I can't post them (I'm not very fussed over security). I don't have any because I can't bear to take any while it's as ugly as it is; it's covered in vinyl siding in that colour Canadians like their cars, we call it greige. This house has the exact same stuff, it'd only be worse if they added some of that roll-on fake stonework.
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