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Idyllic (more from estate agents)

20 April 2007 by Tim 8 Comments

“Set within an idyllic location between the Rochdale Canal and the river…”

That’ll be on the flood plain then.

On the bright side, when the market crashes, the owner of this house won’t be left high and dry. ๐Ÿ™‚

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  1. Gill says

    20 April 2007 at 12:10

    Blimey, don’t they have to say: THIS IS A FLOOD PLAIN nowadays if it is? ๐Ÿ˜ฏ
    I know that area well, it does flood badly. That football pitch around the corner spends nearly half the year submerged doesn’t it?

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  2. Bob says

    20 April 2007 at 13:00

    At least you have some ready-made ideas for the name for the house:
    Mesopotamia
    Dun Insurin’ – you won’t be able to get any on the new place
    Titanic

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  3. Tim says

    20 April 2007 at 13:55

    Wonder if they would grant planning consent to convert the garage to a boathouse.

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  4. Chris says

    20 April 2007 at 17:03

    It’s the idyllic and Rochdale (331st out of 409 best places to live as a family) in the same sentence that is confusing me.

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  5. Tim says

    20 April 2007 at 18:16

    Well, anywhere is better than Reading.

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  6. Alison says

    20 April 2007 at 20:38

    We’re still laughing at that one Tim ๐Ÿ˜†

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  7. Tim says

    20 April 2007 at 21:09

    You live in Reading, what have you got to laugh about. ๐Ÿ™‚
    (TBH, I struggle to see that there is that much wrong with Reading – how does it manage to come so low?)

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  8. Alison says

    20 April 2007 at 22:57

    Well, I think the clue is in the RD’s list of criteria that they got people to rate ๐Ÿ™‚ http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/best-places-to-bring-up-a-family-i-235.html
    I would have put “Things to actually *DO*” on my list ๐Ÿ˜‰
    And “Good public transport”, boringly and unamusingly.

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