Thinking of moving to England?

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> I don't know if any of you are aware of this but number 4 Privet 
Drive
> is for sale. 
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_3087000/3087705.stm
> 
> Of course, it's not really in Little Whinging, it's in Picket Post
> Close in Bracknell, Berkshire.
> 
> I'm under the impression that the interiors are studio interiors, so
> we really haven't seen the inside, but one could assume that the
> studio set are a reasonable approximation of the house.
> 
> So, now we've real estate tour of the house, of sorts, and have a
> general sense of the size and funishings.
> 
> So, if you are having fantasies about moving to England keep in mind
> that the house is one the market for £250,000 or approx. US$400,000.
> That's not much house for $400,000. 
> 
> I will admit that I am not sure how much the price has been inflated
> to take advantage of it's connection to the HP movie.
> 
> Just passing it on.
> 
> bboy_mn

That price is about the going rate for a small modern house in the SE 
England these days - if anything I'd say it was fairly on the cheap 
side - house prices have rocketed in the last 12 months.

I have to say, as a Brit who is more familiar with what the inside of 
those sort of houses look like, that the interior shots looked spot 
on to me.  Current building practice seems to dictate tiny poky 
rooms - the house in the movie is a very typical new housing 
development, where every house looks identical.  For once the film 
makers got the size and decor right too - fussy furnishings, 
wallpaper, millions of ornaments to dust.  I'll point out the 
film "Bridget Jones' Diary" where absolutely everyone seems to live 
in stately homes roughly the size and shape of Blenheim Palace.  Not! 
True!  Small and cluttered is more likely.  

June