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Old 07-04-2007, 04:48 PM   #16
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erm ... holiday homes. That can be taken two ways here in Blighty.
1 A home for rental to lots of people wishing to holiday there, more properly referred to (IMNSHO) as a letting cottage, or, the greater evil
2 a "home" that is lived in for two or three weeks a year by people who think of it as their "holiday home" but don't live there long enough for the house to be a "home", or for the community in which the property is situated to feel the benefit of actual residents or even temporary residents (see 1 above).
In this case, 1 above seems preferable to 3 "buying a house to stop anyone else doing anything with it", the worst variation. I live in a tourist/holiday area where the owner of a type 2 holiday home has bought the house next door so that his two-four week holiday here is not impinged upon by neighbours of any sort. This reduces the housing stock for those of us that want to live and WORK here, providing the services that make this guy's holiday home so nice to be in for a few weeks a year) ... I'm probably drunk and this probably doesn't make sense ...
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Old 07-04-2007, 04:50 PM   #17
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So this guy made it the third kind of home, one that no one gets to enjoy.
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Old 07-04-2007, 05:14 PM   #18
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Does anyone have the Google Earth coordinates?
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Old 07-06-2007, 03:21 PM   #19
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So this guy made it the third kind of home, one that no one gets to enjoy.
That's what I think ... but then again, how much of a "home" is this cave in reality, how habitable is it? Perhaps in this case the buyer was not depriving the community of a viable living space?
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Old 07-06-2007, 07:56 PM   #20
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Again, I could make it so (at least under my tutelage, now).
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Old 07-07-2007, 02:00 AM   #21
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Effectively it's a land deal - 5 acres of woodland is sold "with" the property.
Bearing in mind the cave is barely habitable, I would suggest the lady bought it to keep both the land and the unusual dwelling out of the hands of developers.
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Old 07-07-2007, 02:10 AM   #22
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People live in caves over here. There are some brilliant ones. I think there's been pictures of them on this site before, but I'll get some pics if anyone wants to see.
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Old 07-07-2007, 09:56 AM   #23
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I'd like to see!
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Old 07-10-2007, 06:01 PM   #24
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Spain has some too.
There is a whole cave town in Australia near an old opal mine.
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Old 07-10-2007, 07:22 PM   #25
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THey say that place is so bad you cant live in it because theres no water gas eletricity etc... but havent we lived for hundreds of years without those "basic necessities" for hundreds of years?
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Old 07-11-2007, 12:47 AM   #26
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not no water, no.
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Old 07-11-2007, 05:38 AM   #27
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We lived without water being pipped to our houses is what I mean cloud, Im not silly enough to go as far as we couldnt live without water lol
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Old 07-11-2007, 06:48 AM   #28
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I carried water while building my house. We were totally used to it and found ourselves thinking how wasteful we were when we got the well.
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Old 07-11-2007, 07:55 AM   #29
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Been there, done that. Electricity for a couple months, too.
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Old 07-11-2007, 07:57 AM   #30
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Been there, done that. Electricity for a couple months, too.
Keeps things in perspective, doesn't it?
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