Jesse Sheidlower: Today in fantasy-inspired real-estate um, fantasies: The village of Micheldever, Hampshire, whose name was a partial model for that of Michel Delving, the unofficial capital of The Shire, is extremely lovely, and has some great cottages for sale in it. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Today in fantasy-inspired real-estate um, fantasies: The village of Micheldever, Hampshire, whose name was a partial model for that of Michel Delving, the unofficial capital of The Shire, is extremely lovely, and has some great cottages for sale in it. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmovewww.rightmove.co.uk 3 bedroom detached house for sale in Church Street, Micheldever, Hampshire, SO21 for £750,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Winchester

Oh my god I want that house.

Right? And way less than a million!

*extreme Ethel Merman–in–Call Me Madam voice* Jesse, where the hell *is* Hampshire?

Oh, that's near me! Hampshire really is full of ridiculously charming villages.

Normally when I fantasize about British real estate, it's off the west coast of Scotland. But I could adjust to this, I think.

It's a) warmer but b) wildly more expensive.

I mean, still less than some 1BRs in New York, so

That's why all the villages are full of dazed looking people who've sold a flat in London and now have to cope with thatch or beams or both. 😄

And I'm told that hurricanes hardly ever happen there.

(Except very famously in 1987, despite what we were led to believe.)

Considering the dumps you can get for £650,000 in Brighton and Hove -- all requiring gut reno -- this is a steal and only an hour from our kids. But the stamp duty will kill ya.

😍

Lovely, indeed!

That's ridiculously adorable

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