Purditer wrote:


I was always surprised by the sudden increase in value of these houses, who
in their right mind would want to buy a house on a council estate unless the
price was artificially low.


Er... I would and did. I tried the poorly built matchbox house private
estate. Now live in a house twice as big, ten times as well built and in
an area where people speak to you in the street. Also, crime is
virtually unheard of on our "council" estate when it was a weekly
occurance in the "posh" end of town.