Fancy An 8' Wide House?

[stuey]

It's only 370,000 pounds.
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/26/one-of-torontos-narrowest-homes-up-for-sale

[tonyav]

stuey, no good to me it hasn't got a garage !.

[stuey]

Or even a shed!

[tonyav]

Right, definitely not interested now.

[Buenchico]

I'll pass on that thanks, as I've found a nice flat to rent in London:
http://tinyurl.com/pglz2al

[DTCwordfan]

As long as it doesn't fit my mother in, maybe.....

[Baldric]

Fancy a 7' wide house?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153295/Its-7ft-wide-narrow-house-London-market-275-000.html

[wolf63]

Chris, that flat in London as no WC.

[Captain2]

Fancy a six foot wide house?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386778/Take-peek-inside-Britains-smallest-house-just-feet-wide-feet-tall-manages-squeeze-thousands-tourists-year.html

[Buenchico]

What do you think the sink's for, Wolf63?
;-)

[Actually, I suspect that there is probably a shared one across the corridor somewhere. I had a similar arrangement in my Sheffield bedsit when I started teaching]

[stuey]

I sort of like those quaint, cosy, minute dwellings. I've noticed that your real-estate prices are really, really HIGH.

[Buenchico]

6', Captain2?

Wow, that's spacious!

Well it is if you live here, anyway ;-)
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/31/worlds-narrowest-house-by-jakub-szczesny/

[stuey]

But I'd hate to be a mover trying to get stuff into them.

[stuey]

I really would have liked to reside in the Nonsuch House: https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8pnpaN9VmQMAyN8unIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTIyNzRqcWxuBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZANiNDA2YzQzZWRlZDI5ODdmODZjZTIwYzc2ZmQ4NzdiNQRncG9zAzEEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dnonsuch%2Bhouse%26fr%3Dyhs-mozilla-003%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26hsimp%3Dyhs-003%26hspart%3Dmozilla%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D1&;w=512&h=388&imgurl=lostcityoflondon.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F07%2Fnonsuch-house.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Flostcityoflondon.co.uk%2Fcategory%2F16th-century-london%2F&size=56.4KB&name=%3Cb%3ENonsuch+House%3C%2Fb%3E&p=nonsuch+house&oid=b406c43eded2987f86ce20c76fd877b5&fr2=piv-web&fr=yhs-mozilla-003&tt=%3Cb%3ENonsuch+House%3C%2Fb%3E&b=0&ni=21&no=1&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11rvi8gao&sigb=147ugdo7s&sigi=11ugbacmn&;sigt=10kh1f15j&sign=10kh1f15j&.crumb=eGcnyj4bOq5&fr=yhs-mozilla-003&;fr2=piv-web&hsimp=yhs-003&hspart=mozilla

[wolf63]

Girls are not plumbed for peeing in sinks.

Back in about 1962 - 1967 my parents had an outside loo. I couldn't cope with one of those.

[Buenchico]

Average house prices for different London boroughs, Stuey:
https://londondatastore-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/images/House%20prices%20borough%20squares%20map.bmp

However, when compared to local incomes, London's not the most expensive place to buy a house. There are many rural areas where the average price of a house approaches, or even exceeds, 20 times the average annual wage for the area:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28648704

[Buenchico]

I've just learned, from Wikipedia, that Nonsuch House was the world's first 'prefab'!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsuch_House

The seems to be a bit of a social stigma to living in a prefab in many parts of the UK. (I can remember some of my pupils being bullied because of it). However Nonsuch House seems to be in a different league!

For somewhere a bit quirky to live though, this isn't far from me:
http://www.natures-desktop.com/images/Wallpaper/Fullsize1280/Man-Made/House-in-Clouds.jpg

[Buenchico]

>>> . . . my parents had an outside loo. I couldn't cope with one of those

Stay away from the Ozzy outback then, Wolf63. (You're likely to find a funnel web spider to keep you company though!):
http://travel.cnn.com/sydney/life/long-drop-australias-outback-dunnies-291535

[stuey]

Yes, Chris, and no nails or mortar used, only wooden pegs...Amazing. I was "forbidden" to go to your last link.

[DTCwordfan]

As any house, be it between 6 and 8 feet, has a cellar that can be filled with concrete, I would be happy. Two floors even better, one for internment and the other for the vino.....as long as the res-temperature was 11 degrees C.

[Buenchico]

Here's the missing picture, Stuey:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02093/clouds_2093367c.jpg