Ooh, lovely! ?We would get a splendid view of the motorway, if we went dronewards! ?There is also a flood plain, which I hope will fulfil its duty if called upon.
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Susan
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On 15 Jul 2021, at 15:15, zuiko <
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Yes, people in the UK, particularly down south, have been desperate to buy and some are sight unseen as well. ?We paid over the odds for this house, but we weren¡¯t going to find anywhere at a reasonable price in the frantic rush for houses ¨C the Stamp Duty ¡°holiday¡± had a lot to do with it as well.
In fact we had only two twenty-minute visits, in the evening and the morning, when it wasn¡¯t fully light, before we had to head home. ?So when we arrived to move in it was a real pleasure to see the views: we can see all the way to the Mendips from this location in West Dorset.
Here¡¯s a view towards our village at sunrise, looking from Beaminster Down:??¡ª click on the small thumbnail lower down. ?My car is halfway up the lane while I flew a drone for the view.
The photo attached is the view north towards Yeovil and the Mendips further north.
Chris
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It is very beautiful here but the mountains work against us an difficult terrain. The joke up here was roads just wound round trees and cart tracks.?
?Down the road right opposite the Telstra rim cabinet one family there get a download speed of 2¡. I¡¯m a couple of klms further and I get 15 or even a tick better if I¡¯m lucky. I have the reputation of being ¡°you know that woman with the marvellous speeds on Cedar Ck Rd¡± :-)
When we came here there was a box on the wall and we turned a handle and someone answered up at the exchange on Telegraph Hill as the locals call it - and we had two digit oh numbers. Internet was non existant back then.?
But you¡¯re right these days it¡¯s becoming a question you have to ask if it¡¯s important to you. Newer residents obviously never asked or were promised something that never happened. Unfortunately in covid people are buying out in these areas even sight unseen. ??¡â??
Jude
<image.jpg>On 15 Jul 2021, at 10:09 pm, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
?Not good! ?One of our criteria when we were looking for houses in Dorset last autumn and winter was good Internet. ?The house that we¡¯ve bought has the fibre cabinet about 30m away, so my Internet is as fast as it can get in most parts of the UK ¨C 73 Mbps download, 20Mbps upload.
But that looks like a beautiful part of the world.
Chris
Tonight Current Affair ?Chnl 9 program featured locals talking about our struggles re phone and internet in our area...... it gives you a look at the sort of area we live in.
I had a part as rent a crowd last week on another channel and got spotted and one of our local club members tracked me down via good old white pages to ask me some Mac questions he wanted sorted :-)?
Purler