Difficult Choice.

[Tilly2]

We are thinking of moving to North Staffordshire in the not too distant future.
We have been looking at properties for at least a year and have not yet picked an area or a house.

The problem is, I don't know what sort of house I want.
I'd love an Edwardian Villa, or a 19th. century cottage, or a modern four bed detached, or a bungalow with some land, or a 1930's detached, or..............and so on and so on.
I don't think I'm ever going to be able to make my mind up.

[naomi24]

According to this, it's spread by ticks, so I presume any animal could be a potential hazard.

http://arthritis.webmd.com/tc/lyme-disease-topic-overview

[Zacs-Master]

From the BBC website:
Pheasants, sheep, squirrels and other small rodents carry ticks, but pheasants carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

They pass it on to the ticks, which feed on their blood, who in turn can pass it on to humans. The disease can cause paralysis and inflammation of the brain.

[Baldric]

We're moving in about a week, we were very sure what we wanted, had to be a Bungalow, so what have we got, a 4 bed detached Chalet, but it does have a bedroom and wet room on the ground floor should it be needed.
I've just realised something, according to starbuckone, that makes us snobby, oh well suppose we can live with it.
;o)

[anneasquith]

you need phil and kirsty !

[Zacs-Master]

Nobody needs Phil & Kirsty.

[DTCwordfan]

it has a propensity for hanging around in woods and scrub too......am having the mater's paddock fields (4 of them) all cut back very shortly as they have got out of hand over the years.

[naomi24]

Thanks Zacs. I didn't know that - but I won't be shooting them - and I don't touch them because they run away as soon as anyone goes near them, so I think I'm pretty safe.

[ladybirder]

The very reason I moved to the country was to watch the wildlife. That's what it's for.

[woofgang]

apparently the jury is out on the lyme disease pheasant reservoir thing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/466809.stm

But those who disagree in this article do seen to have a bias, and there does seem to be an echo here of the current problems of salmon farmers.

We live in the New Forest and have done so for around 25 years. The dogs need tick prevention and do get ticks quite regularly but in the whole time I have only ever picked up one tick myself. Of course if you are going to do what the visitors do and sit on the ground to picnic, run around with bare legs (and feet) and generally behave like idiots.
That article said that gamekeepers don't get lyme disease and that proves that the pheasants are not a reservoir for the bacteria but I bet that the gamekeepers are blooming careful not to get pheasant crud in open wounds and not to get bitten by ticks.