It does make me laugh; they always call these enormous, posh housing developments ("starter chateaus", a friend of mine calls them!) things like "Saxon Woods" or "Rosewood Court", when in actuality they've probably levelled the woods to build the damned cul-de-sac!

Anothet thing that drives me mad is that they build 3,500 sqaure foot "luxury" houses on such eensy weensy plots & then sell them for such exhorbitant prices! If I'm going to pay in excess of $500,000 for a home, the last thing I want to see from my bathroom widow is my neighbour's bathroom---privacy is a "luxury", too!

We live in an old house with all the requisite old house "charms", such as draughts, mice, peeling paint, damp nasty cellar, etc. BUT, we also have millwork & maple floors that we could never afford today, architectural details that are never found in new houses, and 100 other things I shan't bore you with listing----and we live on a STREET with lovely old trees & other draughty old houses, with an ordinary STREET name!