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Would you rather live in an apartment or house?
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Hey guys! Would you rather live in an apartment or in a house? Why?
I would live in an apartment at the top floor so I can see the whole city during the day and night. Its all about the scenery
I would live in an apartment at the top floor so I can see the whole city during the day and night. Its all about the scenery
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I really miss having a backyard, being able to plant a big garden, feed the birds and squirrels, and letting our kids outside on their own swing set would be nice. We are unfortunately stuck in apartments until we pay off student loans.
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Gotta disagree on that, the cities are the boring places.
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I know how that goes...
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The worst one for me right now is, no pets. I had my cat put down a few months ago and our new landlord doesn't allow pets, we could only keep the ones we had already. We can't get a new one, the place is so SO empty without a furbaby sharing it with me. It feels so wrong and it really really doesn't feel like home anymore. And sadly, that's a very common apartment rule, it's hard (though not impossible) to find one that allows pets.
We can't really make it a home and redo much of anything in it, because it's not actually ours. It's kind of an ugly place and it'll remain ugly. Your own house you can do whatever the heck you want with it, make it look nice, make it yours, make it home.
Neighbours banging on shared walls at 3am is not fun, blasting their stereo, rumbling their insanely noisy car with its lights shining in your window at 4am for an hour. I know houses get noisy neighbours too, but at least you get a few feet more distance from them.
I would *possibly* consider buying a condo. But they're such a horrendous value, you pay almost as much for a really tiny unit, sometimes actually as much or more, as you would for a proper starter home. And a lot of them still have rules you have to follow just the same as an apartment. But I do have to wonder how much I really need a house, I don't plan on having kids or anything so I don't really need a lot of space. Just for me and eventually a significant other, and a cat or two. But I dunno, I just don't think condos are worth it, it would be great if they weren't so dang expensive.
So yeah, I would own a house in a heartbeat, as opposed to renting an apartment. And you don't really own apartments here (though that's pretty much what a condo is, an apartment you own. But I discussed my feelings on those already). You can rent houses, but mostly it's just like renting the basement or a room of the house, not really the whole house, so it's basically an apartment. So yeah a house, I would love to live in, and own, a house.
I guess you can own a townhouse, which kind of is somewhere in the middle. Not as big as a house, bigger than an apartment. Better value than a condo, usually cheaper than a whole house. Forgot about those, that could actually be okay. I'd give that serious thought at least.
(didn't mean to write a novel. LOL. Oh well.)
On that matter, I'd rather live in a house, but I wouldn't mind living in a shared space if I owned the unit, and am not just renting it. Just as long as my neighbors aren't too bothersome.
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I used to live in a flat, it was fun at first, but noisy neighbours are annoying, so is the lack of space.
My dream home has to have enough room for me to have a large studio, a guest room or two, and space enough to have a couple of friends move in, and enough communal spaces and bathrooms, so we don't get in each others way.
I was born and raised in the countryside in the middle of spruces and birches and if i feel like it i wanna go naked outside with my morning coffee and enjoy the the breeze without anyone staring at me with goofy looks!!
So detached house in the countryside for me! there my soul rests and i can smile with bliss!!
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I know what you mean.
I have a housemate, and we live in squalor, but pay someone else to take care of the garden.
But I just love the space we have in a house! I have a big studio, my housemate has a workshop in the garage (not things that you can have in the average aparment) we even have our own livingrooms, and half the rent each is far less than either of us would pay for a flat on our own. And we have space for parking 4 cars, if we ever had that many, useful for when family visit, and still no need for anyone to park on the street. I don't think many apartments have that.