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A quick Google proves you wrong, Georgian period began in 1714 with King George I and lasted until the death of King George IV in 1830. There are certainly many
by andy_ppp 6y ago
A quick Google proves you wrong, Georgian period began in 1714 with King George I and lasted until the death of King George IV in 1830. There are certainly many Georgian properties in London right now, for example my brother rents one...
- angrais 6y agoLondon isn't representative of the UK mate. Likewise, OP said on average, not that it wasne possible.
- andy_ppp 6y agoThe bit I’m saying is wrong is “your friend was exaggerating” by saying his house was the youngest on his street at 250 years old. It’s perfectly reasonable to say that and in many parts of the UK extremely common.
- angrais 6y agoGood point. Of course, you'd imagine if many on the street are older houses then most are.
- dghf 6y agoThere were ~11 million homes in England in 1939, and ~23 million in 2019. Even if we allow for single homes being split into multiple smaller ones, and assume that every 1939 home was still standing in 2019 (ignoring the effects of the Blitz, and of the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s), that would still suggest that half of English homes are less than 80 years old. I doubt things are significantly different in the rest of the UK.
- andy_ppp 6y agoNo. Old houses are not distributed on average, the point I was making is it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to say that a 250 year old house is the youngest on a specific street. Could easily be true, common even.
- IshKebab 6y agoYou need to improve your Google game: https://www.statista.com/statistics/292252/age-of-housing-dwellings-in-england-uk-by-tenuree/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/292252/age-of-housing-dw...