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Quite an unusual interior

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2 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in Standfield Road, Dagenham, RM10 for £450,000. Marketed by Purplebricks, covering Romford

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Ignoring the obvious, I was not expecting that kind of money being dropped on the interior based on the photos of the exterior.

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- They're probably not allowed to modify the exterior at all and made the best of it for whatever reason
  
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- I get a strong 'my mate's company bought too much of this for a project and asked if I wanted it for pennies on the pound so I said yeah, put it fucking everywhere' vibe
  
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(I am so sorry, please, whatever gods there may be forgive me...)

Whoever sells this is going to lose their marbles.

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- They put all their marbles on the walls already
  
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That's some real whiplash going from the exterior to the interior

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- I know right, if you could afford to do that to the interior, why on earth wouldn't you at least paint your house
  
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  It's in a shitty area. Think of the shitty exterior as camouflage. Burgler isn't going to bother with the run down shitbox house.
  
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  Sleeper hoose
  
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"I FUCKING LOVE MARBLE!!!"

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- And fucking hate socks apparently. Unless they're wearing the grippy kind they have in hospitals.
  
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- Oh yeah? Let me see your ceiling then!
  
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  Who are you, William Randolph Hearst?
  
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Obviously they skimped out, what with the lack of marble in the bedrooms

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Somebody found out that ancient Roman emperors used marble and went all in on that McMansion lifestyle.

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I love the absolute compromise on the placement of that PS5. And each stair step has its own tiny rug?

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- Exactly what I came to comment on. Got a TV that's half way off the wall and a ps5 hiding on the stairs just ready to take someone out.
  
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There's a bang of drug money off this.

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Looks like early 90s raytrace renders inside.

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Can someone in the UK tell me how that home costs £450k? Is real estate that crazy over there or are they trying to recover the £300k they spent for the marble?

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- 40 mins to central London on tube. Lots of green spaces near by. 2 solid square bedrooms, all the cosmetic crap easily stripped out. Hard standing for 2 cars, decent back garden. Semi detached.
  
  The only reason it's not more is "it's Dagenham" and the general shabby state of the street.
  
  This'll get snapped up by professional couple earning 160k+ combined willing to await the inevitable gentrification in 5/10 years.
  
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  Amazing what passes for a "decent back garden" in the UK. My "back garden" is a 1/4 acre (1000m^2 ) on a property worth $140k USD including the 1200ft^2 (120m^2 ) house.
  
  On the downside my exterior walls are made of glue and sawdust, and my interior walls are made of paper and powdered gypsum.
  
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- Not in the UK, but I'm guessing, like real estate anywhere, high population + limited availability?
  
  There are 9 million people living in London. 607 square miles, which means, on average, 14,827 people per square mile.
  
  Compared to, say, San Francisco with 808,000 people in 47 square miles, 17,191 people per square mile.
  
  Globally though, numbers like this aren't even in the top 25:
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population_density
  
  My "city" is embarrassed. 635,000 people in 145 square miles. 4,379 people per square mile. We're absolutely porous by comparison.
  
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  Reading that I had to check my area, and it's a whopping 1518 people in 205.11 square miles or about 7 people per square mile. You got us beat by a long shot.
  
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  This is one of the areas that London expanded into, it was in Essex until to 60s. It's not desirable.
  
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- That's London prices for you. That's likely the bottom end of the price scale.
  
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That first photo - I though I was looking at a scrap heap that had already been gutted, covered in mould and rubbish and ripped up wall paper, before I realised that was just the tilling.. 🤯

The bedrooms don't look too offensive, but the rest is just so overwhelming and off putting.. Those stairs! I wish them luck lol

E: The more I think about it, the more I'm wondering if Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen did a revenge edition of Changing Rooms in there 😂(not just the look, but also the idea that it's all just cheap mdf painted to look like marble, rather than actual marble)

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- The bathroom horrifically tiny. It's smaller than the fucking closet
  
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  Every house should have a fucking closet.
  
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  You might be looking at the second toilet, rather than the main bathroom? The actual bathroom certainly is smaller than average, but not really unusual for these kinds of houses unfortunately..
  
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I'm sliding around just looking at it

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Somebody's been recording home movies!

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- Much more likely that the agent just didn't want to be in the photo.
  
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  Ha ha, yeah, I forgot the photo would have needed to be taken!
  
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- Wait.....who took this picture?! This must be....a vampire's house!
  
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They got the New Jersey package from their contractor

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- Little Italy
  
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That price is obscene. That would be £100-150K where I live. It's this some southern thing?

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- Inside the M25? It's almost shocking that it isn't double the price (not justifying this in any way, just making a point of how obscene housing prices have become, especially in greater London)
  
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- probably. according to zoopla it went for 365k in 2021. changing hands for this silly money is especially obscene since it would have previously been sold for a pittance under the right to buy
  
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- I would say it's largely a problem of big cities being where everything has centralized these days, and said cities failing to provide enough housing and/or sufficiently good transportation in and out of the city.
  
  Britain and basically all countries need to stop spending money on useless roads that get backed up with traffic when 4 people want to use them at the same time, and instead invest the money in railways. London is so stupidly huge and important that the metro network should be like twice as large, and it should also have a network of express metro lines extending even further from the city as well as proper high speed rail connecting all the way to Glasgow.
  
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Veiny

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Jesus, that's insane. Tbh, that's the kinda house I'd want: unassuming on the outside, extravagant and surreal on the inside.

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I bet that’s all vinyl wrap.

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"Good sized rear garden"? That is a postage stamp!

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With that much stone they should install drainage grates in every room so you can just spray the place down instead of mopping/dusting/sweeping

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Wonder if they like dags.

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- Maybe, but they definitely like drugs
  
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Before seeing this I had no idea what it meant to have a tasteful home and now I know what it means to have a tasteless home.

There's so many things stuffed into this house that nothing has any flavor. I'm sure this will be useful information

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Stunning? Like in, a taser stunning they mean?

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Oh my gaudy

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The bathroom looks like it's 1 meter wide and no more.

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- I've never seen a sink behind the toilet before. It does make a nice little shelf for your comic books and chocolate milk though.
  
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  I thought that was a weird toilet top and didn't even realize that it was a sink. I'm laughing at the thought of trying to use it.
  
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  I've seen it before. It's some trendy thing I don't get because don't you have to wait for the tank to fill back up before you can wash your hands with water more than just a trickle?
  
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- I don't normally get claustrophobic, but if I had to sit on that toilet...
  
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  You can press your arms against the opposing walls for added pressure 🫷😠🫸
  
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  With the wall style, it also feels like you're crammed between two stone blocks too.
  
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Swingers

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- Does have a fuck-house wibe.
  
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  Lots of parking too
  
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Is that... a napkin dispenser built into the stair wall?

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Am I weird, or it doesn't look bad?

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- Yes
  
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Those UK row houses with their claustrophobic rooms and tiny fenced in backyards are so sad.

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- It's to remind you that you're poor
  
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  If you can afford a £450k house you're not that poor.
  
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