That could easily be Netherlands, Belgium or Ireland with those prices as well.
I can’t put my finger on it but the way houses look in Belgium fills me with an eerie sense of dread.
maybe in London. But if you just look outside London for a sec you’ll see housing prices are extremely reasonable. You can get a 4 bed 2 bath somewhere in Cornwall or a Buckinghamshire for less than £500,000. You could probably get a good 2 bed for £250,000.
The UK’s problem is centralisation. We are way too centralised. Everything is obsessed with the capital. Therefore creating massive income inequality, depleting talent from other areas and creating shit pricing in homes. We need to make Manchester and Birmingham and Newcastle as attractive as London to live in. That’s the only way to solve our problems.
UK is bad, real bad, the build quality is overwhelmingly poor, the prices factor in house building companies making a 50% profit while they are built by outsourced limited companies that declare bankruptcy to avoid warranties pay up. If you move in without having a reputable adjuster (to list defaults) visiting you wave goodbye to all your money… But it’s cheaper than renting. The old housing stock is either drafty or mouldy, your choice.
Edit: may I add, in England some land is a lease, you don’t own your house you lease it! Like a peasant with a feudal lord.
650k *maybe* gives you a two bed apartment in the at least somewhat desireable cities here.
Sure in the Hunsrück or Lausitz it’s probably a mansion, but do you want to move there?
And for that price, half the windows won’t be sealed properly, the walls will all be massively out of plumb, there will be gaps in the brickwork’s mortar, the plastering will look like the surface of the moon, and half the loft insulation will be missing.
Would guess UK as they live enough north to be needing good isolation and such but don’t. Can even have drafts blowing out the heat
Not sure which one is the worse, but everything built in Italy in the ’50-’60-’70-’80 is a mix of horror / brutalism / cheap and fast building or a mix of all.
That’s a steal!
Switzerland too :/
I wonder if that this sub knows it’s because people want to live here.
Belgium! No really, just look at that [ugly Belgium houses](https://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com). Use that link or just google it. It’s a thing of it’s own.
All others may be ridiculously expensive, but they are at least good looking and cozy. Especially houses in NL, I like them very much, but that’s only my personal preference…
i hate delivering to these places, the satnav takes you to the middle of what was a field six months ago and no chance of a tip
Actually UK is not even that bad, average house cost something like 300k and you can “easily” get a job that pays 40-50k, at least much more easier than Spain where even IT pays like 25-30k if you’re lucky.
But this picture is kinda false, I’ve seen houses exactly like this in Yorkshire new builds for 200-250k max
UK: depressing, identical housing estates. Worse food. Ugly people in the north and Scotland and Northern Ireland, the last of whom sound unhinged.
Only in and around London.
Prices in the rest of the UK are actually far better, for the most part.
You could maybe see prices like that in Edinburgh, possibly.
It’s just cheaper and easier to emigrate than buy a house in the UK 🤣
Ironic that my ex-council 3 bed house is better built than these shit boxes, came with a massive plot of land and cost £180k. Only downside is it’s in the countryside outside of Manchester.
Also, horrible masonry, windows that can’t open properly, little or no public transport connections, no shops or services within walking or cycling distance, no mixer taps, etc
The building standard of houses in the UK is pretty bad in my experience.
And I’m not talking about really old houses, but stuff from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
It’s like they are unaware of what insulation and passive ventilation is.
That’s a two story house with a small garden in fron of it. That price could a (relatively big) flat in Madrid.
Look at this monster, voted best house in Switzerland
Switzerland, a home like that is easily in the 1mil range and that’s the cheap areas. In some areas the real estate prices start in the +1 million range for a 1 bedroom appartment shithole from the 50s.
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That could easily be Netherlands, Belgium or Ireland with those prices as well.
I can’t put my finger on it but the way houses look in Belgium fills me with an eerie sense of dread.
maybe in London. But if you just look outside London for a sec you’ll see housing prices are extremely reasonable. You can get a 4 bed 2 bath somewhere in Cornwall or a Buckinghamshire for less than £500,000. You could probably get a good 2 bed for £250,000.
The UK’s problem is centralisation. We are way too centralised. Everything is obsessed with the capital. Therefore creating massive income inequality, depleting talent from other areas and creating shit pricing in homes. We need to make Manchester and Birmingham and Newcastle as attractive as London to live in. That’s the only way to solve our problems.
UK is bad, real bad, the build quality is overwhelmingly poor, the prices factor in house building companies making a 50% profit while they are built by outsourced limited companies that declare bankruptcy to avoid warranties pay up. If you move in without having a reputable adjuster (to list defaults) visiting you wave goodbye to all your money… But it’s cheaper than renting. The old housing stock is either drafty or mouldy, your choice.
Edit: may I add, in England some land is a lease, you don’t own your house you lease it! Like a peasant with a feudal lord.
650k *maybe* gives you a two bed apartment in the at least somewhat desireable cities here.
Sure in the Hunsrück or Lausitz it’s probably a mansion, but do you want to move there?
And for that price, half the windows won’t be sealed properly, the walls will all be massively out of plumb, there will be gaps in the brickwork’s mortar, the plastering will look like the surface of the moon, and half the loft insulation will be missing.
Would guess UK as they live enough north to be needing good isolation and such but don’t. Can even have drafts blowing out the heat
Not sure which one is the worse, but everything built in Italy in the ’50-’60-’70-’80 is a mix of horror / brutalism / cheap and fast building or a mix of all.
That’s a steal!
Switzerland too :/
I wonder if that this sub knows it’s because people want to live here.
Belgium! No really, just look at that [ugly Belgium houses](https://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com). Use that link or just google it. It’s a thing of it’s own.
All others may be ridiculously expensive, but they are at least good looking and cozy. Especially houses in NL, I like them very much, but that’s only my personal preference…
i hate delivering to these places, the satnav takes you to the middle of what was a field six months ago and no chance of a tip
Actually UK is not even that bad, average house cost something like 300k and you can “easily” get a job that pays 40-50k, at least much more easier than Spain where even IT pays like 25-30k if you’re lucky.
But this picture is kinda false, I’ve seen houses exactly like this in Yorkshire new builds for 200-250k max
UK: depressing, identical housing estates. Worse food. Ugly people in the north and Scotland and Northern Ireland, the last of whom sound unhinged.
Only in and around London.
Prices in the rest of the UK are actually far better, for the most part.
You could maybe see prices like that in Edinburgh, possibly.
https://preview.redd.it/uldxe5jw2zee1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce0b33b78b1620fdac3b5aff3e6e57cbeb2d4d42
Average apartment cost in Helsinki be like
Portugal is also a strong contender. What is insulation?
Portugal:
€450k for a fugly house
https://preview.redd.it/13a7j3ja3zee1.jpeg?width=374&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2563f212cded5e3a2fdeb6ce43542aa7d247a126
It’s just cheaper and easier to emigrate than buy a house in the UK 🤣
Ironic that my ex-council 3 bed house is better built than these shit boxes, came with a massive plot of land and cost £180k. Only downside is it’s in the countryside outside of Manchester.
650k? Bargain.
This is what 1.4mill gets you in London:
[https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149070992#/?channel=RES_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149070992#/?channel=RES_BUY)
“An Englishman’s home is his castle”
The Castle:
Also, horrible masonry, windows that can’t open properly, little or no public transport connections, no shops or services within walking or cycling distance, no mixer taps, etc
The building standard of houses in the UK is pretty bad in my experience.
And I’m not talking about really old houses, but stuff from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
It’s like they are unaware of what insulation and passive ventilation is.
That’s a two story house with a small garden in fron of it. That price could a (relatively big) flat in Madrid.
Look at this monster, voted best house in Switzerland
https://hicarquitectura.com/2019/05/afgh-house-alder/
Switzerland, a home like that is easily in the 1mil range and that’s the cheap areas. In some areas the real estate prices start in the +1 million range for a 1 bedroom appartment shithole from the 50s.
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