I live in a prison cell, but since they give me computer and Internet access, I just photoshop myself into various settings. Damnit, my cell mate Randy has hungry eyes again tonight.  Bye bye.

That's the nurses quarters of the local hospital.

My heating turns on automatically at 4pm if it below 17 C so its warm when I get home. House is oldish by oz standrds , well the front half, built 1920, back extension I built. Main vintage fittings = me & Ms. fxh.

If you live in UK I won't tell you how big house and land is.

I live in a Georgian semi, it's a disaster of a money pit. We're counting down the days till the kids fuck off to get a new build.

I live in a 1920s suburban semi detached
I would never buy a new build all that dry lining you cant even hang a picture.
When i bought this place about seven years ago,the guy who sold it to me spent
his whole life in the house his parents had bought it new (new builds then came with brick internal walls).

I noticed a piano in the sitting room and asked the guy how old it was?
He told me it was over a hundred years old and pointed out some damage and told me that it had been
caused by shrapnel from a " Doodlebug" during WW2 and it had never been moved since.

Thats what i like about older houses the history, new builds while practical are soulless.

"The quality of new build is quite good, its just that the houses are small and expensive"

The new builds in my locale offer 'detached' houses with around 2 clear feet between houses and gardens which are pointlessly small, the build quality is indifferent...they're very expensive indeed and sell like hot cakes, presumably to people who don't like gardening and just want to be able to say they live in a detached house.

Just around the corner, the house I grew up in, a 60's terrace, is more solidly built with proper gardens front and back in an estate with communal grassed areas and separate kid's playgrounds. Decent houses for working class people who could just about afford their own home, still good homes today.

The co-op unit I bought was built in 1926. Unlike most places in America, the old units in New York have massive rooms (comparatively) with high ceilings. "Pre-war" is highly desirable here.

The trade-off is that the lobbies are plain, the steam heat hisses all day, and sound proof they are not.

What are detached houses and hedges?