Though I agree the house before had a much nicer outlook in reality if you were their age it must of been hard work living there with no vehicle access,you would have to carry all your shopping up steep inclines back home,hard to do in winter when the snow and ice is about,and if you don't like church bells then they would drive you mad
Every time we go the Holmfirth we wonder how people in wheelchairs or people with kids in pushchairs ever get round the back streets. Then our twins were in a pushchair it was murder getting up one or two hills.