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Less gardens, more gardening?
In article , Uncle Marvo says...
In reply to ShinyRed ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : Hi I'm new to this forum, but thought you might be interested that gardening is more popular than ever, despite the fact that less and less of us have gardens! So much so that Yell.com have refined Garden Centres as a specific key word search in their directory. Do you think it's part of the home improvement trend, are people valuing their gardens more, and spending more time in them? (Hope it's ok to post the link - thought you guys might be interested in seeing what comes up ) http://tinyurl.com/yqza34 The trend I have noticed in Surrey, where I spend far too much of my spare time, is that people build houses in their gardens. They then sell these as a "pension", and retain the original house, less its garden. It is not a trend that I like to see. I was thinking of starting a magazine called "House In Garden". Do you think it will catch on? That trend is standard across the UK. It is the one main reason we left to come to France. I believe the catchphrase is "affordable space". We did try to find a property in the UK that had a big garden that fitted our budget but surprisingly the estate agents and online sites in the UK just can't handle "big garden" as a criterion. Rightmove and similar web sites were complete rubbish for finding anything suitable. We spoke to a number of estate agents giving them our criterion but the common reply was that "what may be a big garden to one person may be a small garden to another". One estate agent said they had the perfect property for us and showed us a picture (the house was of secondary interest to the garden). The photo showed a lovely big garden, so we went along for a viewing. We didn't even ring the doorbell. Looking over the fence the photo had clearly been taken with a special lens and made the garden look ten times bigger than it actually was. Finding a suitable property here in France was a doddle. The internal area of houses and total property area including land is always part of the standard specification. Why don't estate agents do this in the UK? -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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