Finding A Wheelchair Accessible Home | Our Experience & Plans!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 เม.ย. 2021
- House hunting is difficult, but add in disability and wheelchair accessible requirements and it's a whole lot more challenging! In this video, we share our experience of looking for our future wheelchair accessible home and all the issues we've come across. Please share your experience or any questions in the comments below and we'll get back to you :-)
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Emma is a disabled travel and lifestyle blogger. She has a progressive muscle wasting condition called Muscular Dystrophy and uses a powered wheelchair. You will often see her and her boyfriend, Allan hopping on a plane to some new city, setting off on a UK road trip, going to a gig or festival or just generally working their way through life together.
I find myself in the same situation now. I have to move, my landlord of 12 years is selling the property AFTER I've done all the adaptions. New wetroom, level access all around. redid the entire garden with ramps and raised beds... Now he wants to sell. We all know that a 2 bedroom bungalow in the middle of a seaside town is going to skyrocket in price now that its adapted. HE will make 100k profit on the adaptions I'VE done and that whoever buys this bungalow will want to move into it. I'm out on my ear with social housing to look forward to. again we all know how that works.. 1 bedroom box with no ramps / shower / access / garden.. oh and you have to be over 55 to even be considered for a bungalow in most regions. I need to try buy the house I'm in, but with no income aside from my disability and instantly losing any housing benefits i would get, who can afford it... Unless I crowdfund to buy this place. I'm screwed. I dealt with being in a wheelchair. I dealt with the death of my partner of 22 years in the middle of my cancer chemo and covid, again. I dealt with that.. I'm a 'shit happens' kind of person.. THIS HOWEVER has got me beat. I'm cooked, done.. toasted and roasted. Wall has been kicked, although not quite run into yet. All I need is a place to live and a society of builders that gives a damn about those in wheelchairs.. A step to far to ask I guess.
Good luck house hunting! Finding an accessible property that you can actually afford is so difficult. I'm on list for social housing for a large adapted wheelchair accessible property. Rare as hens teeth. lol
Thank you so much, Sarah. It really isn't easy, is it? I'm sure it will happen and for you too! Love your saying "rare as hen's teeth" haha.
Hope you guys get something, as me and Laura are trying to get one too, as Laura can’t do stairs due to recent illness, and it’s proving impossible
Thank you, Tommy! It's not easy, but we'll get there as will you and Laura! Fingers crossed that you find something soon. Take care.
I couldn't agree more with everything you guys said even in Canada!
Thank you! Are there many bungalows in Canada?
@@SimplyEmma There are a lot of them yes but are priced very high.
Wish you all the best! I hope you find something soon.
Thank you so much, Nina. We appreciate that :-)
Hmm it's a hard search I do hope you find somewhere I am sure you will
Thank you so much, David! We appreciate that! Hope you're well!
It's like dating but worse feels so sad when a house you like is nothing like pictures of it!
Thanks, Casey. It really is disappointing when the house is nothing like the photos. Very frustrating!
I have a modular home and had a garage built. lots of property. but,,I'm in Ontario Canada. is there any modular homes there? may also be called permanent trailer parks?
I have lived in mine for 8 years and love it. these are nothing like regular trailers. they look like a nice bungalow 2 or 3 bedroom great size rooms 🏡
That sounds fantastic. I'm so glad you love your home. Unfortunately, we don't really have anything like that here. We also don't have have a lot of empty land here in the UK. It would be amazing if we could get something like that.
I've been thinking how amazing going to live in another country would be after it's safe for a year. Would you consider helping someone with a disability, plan out, or set up everything like, flat, caregiving, doctors maybe, etc.? Could this be something for your blog? I honestly think you could sell that idea. I know myself and many of the disabled community in North America would pay for that type of service.
That's a really interesting suggestion - thanks Casey! To be honest, it's not something we've thought about as it's never been brought to our attention. It is something to consider for sure :-)