I used to live in an apartment then decided to buy a house for reasons such as wanting to have a yard / outdoor space (wanted to buy a big dog among others), leave city life for suburban life for peace & quiet, family-proof (place where I’d want hypothetical kids to grow up in), etc. After experiencing both I prefer house over apartment.
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I really liked living in an apartment. Simple living is pretty nice tbh.
I would never go back to renting. I’ll riot first lol.
Honestly even my best landlords sucked vs just being able to fix it myself.
House because you can grow more indo in a basement than a spare bedroom
I can’t share my walls with people. I lived in a townhouse once. It was awful. Train tracks 10’ out the back door, constantly smelling what my neighbors are cooking or smoking, and got my car broken into at least twice and the pile who did it bragged in my face about it.
Fucking people. What a bunch of bastards.
Definitely house, preferably owned. I rented my previous apartment and had to run a lot of jobs through the landlord. Now, if something goes wrong or if I want to hang something with screws, I can just go ahead. And I love having a back yard. Front yard meh, just work, no joy.
Downside is that my house is not exactly well maintained and it was built in the sixties. So I’ll need to invest in some stuff in the next 5 to 10 years.
For me the downside is that it feels a bit empty at times. In hindsight I went a bit overboard, given it’s just girlfriend & me + pets. For that reason I like having my family & friends stay over often. Apartment felt more compact.
In descending order:
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House in the city
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Apartment in the city
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Cabin in the mountains
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Homeless in the city
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Homeless in the mountains
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Japanese-style coffin capsule
♾️. Anything in suburbia
Even countyside europe is better than suburbia, atleast there you have nature around you constantly!
And better public transit than suburbia, maybe even better than the city it’s near
Nah I live in the countryside in England and public transport is shit. One bus every hour and a half if you’re lucky and it only goes to one place, you’re looking at 2 hours minimum to go to the next village over that’s about 2 miles away assuming all the busses you need show up on time.
It’s faster to walk most of the time but sometimes the fields that the footpaths go through have bulls in them so you can’t get past.
I mean I lived in the suburbs in the US and there was just zero.
So a terrible bus experience is better than literally no option.
Couldn’t walk anywhere, my road connected only to a 55 mph 4 land road with no sidewalk.
Couldn’t walk anywhere, my road connected only to a 55 mph 4 land road with no sidewalk.
As a Finn this is beyond perverse to me.
Like I want to ask questions like “can’t you just walk in the woods next to the road then” but then I realised what a brainfart that is as the continental US isn’t covered in >75% woods, unlike Finland, and the road might go along private property or something, and unline Finland, the US doesn’t have the freedom to roam laws we do.
I genuinely have a hard time understanding how one can’t walk somewhere, but I do believe you.
Yup, you highlighted exactly why.
I chose a random spot in a middle-of-nowhere state, Missouri
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GM2Pd1UFWZd5aMpU7?g_st=ac
I’d bet that’s a 55 mph Rd that people do 65 mph on 105kmh), no real shoulder, and private property touches the road. It’s Missouri so you’d actually maybe even get threatened or shot if you walk across the wrong person’s yard
No crossings, so you just have to run across the road
It’s like that. A lot of places.
My Nordic sensibilities are offended
In the land of the free you’re not free to move unless you’ve got a car. Like I’ve known that a long time but that’s a rather visceral example, thank you for increasing my understanding.
Wow wow wow. Slow down. Country side is still shit
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Apartment, dacha, lada. Benefits of all.
House would be nice, but detached houses in my neighborhood are currently selling for 3-4 million, so I’ll stay in my nice affordable apartment.
Damn, US? I paid ~70 million Thai baht for my house and that’s considered A LOT of money here.
House. It’s my own space and I can customize it in any way I want.
Apartment. Houses feel like prison cells especially in
desolate barren primitive wastelandsthe suburbs where everything requires a car or at least an hour of travel. Anyone with nothing to lose can break into your house and all you can do is make it too much effort. All your neighbors are thieves and will steal your mail, packages, and food orders. They’ll also not care if you had an intruder, and they’ll care less about how their smoke affects you. Just wear a gas mask if you don’t like smoke. It’s their property so you’ll just need to get over it. Happy and cozy! Let’s hope your work schedule doesn’t change so you don’t need to choose between taking out trash and being able to sleep before work. And definitely get some insurance to replace your replaceable belongings when a high schooler’s still-burning joint tossed on your outdated status symbol burns your house and everything in it. Spend every day with your pets and children like it’s your last. It’s the current year, live like it. You don’t need a glorified horse drawn carriage and a happy cozy cottage in the woods. There’s no need to maintain a patch of grass to show off you don’t need to farm on it. There’s no need to live completely alone where no one can help if you’re in need. It’s unnecessary. If you can’t live in a city the problem is you. Go buy an island if you need to live so primitively.Lmao where the hell do you live?
In reality and not in Sanrio Town where everyone is kind happy best friends
Sanrio Town? I bet that gets all the laughs in the edgelord forums.
When was the last time you went outside?
TIL I live in a prison 🤣
I mean, unless you count this shitty planet as a prison… 🤔
Imagine spending a significant portion of your paycheck on being able to make it to work when you could just spend half a week’s worth at a sports or electronics store once every few years. So free.
That’s not a House vs Apartment thing. Its a USA vs EU thing.
The US sucks, both in Apartments and Houses.
I considered moving to the eu if their cities are actually made for humans who live in the current year
A house is usually more confortable indeed but I do think it depends on your needs and where you’re going to live. An apartment can be a bit safer, have a less expesive maintenance and be more practical overall, also HOA can be a very annoying addition to a house. On the other hand if you have kids or pets an apartment will give you headaches with noise complaints and lack of space
I 110% agree with the safety. The house I bought is in a residential community really well guarded & this aspect was a major deciding factor as a public figure (a lot of other industry colleagues live here). The security in the apartment complex is top notch.
Apartment, but only because I can’t stand the thought of investing* in something that’s stuck in one location forever.
My dream dwelling would be a houseboat. I get the benefits of owning my dwelling but retain the ability to physically relocate it.
*As if I could even afford that lol. I doubt I’m even gonna live long enough to afford a houseboat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have you considered full time RV living as a step towards the houseboat? Small used RVs are cheaper than most cars, in some places.
I have! I’m thinking this should be my first step once I finish grad school and get something resembling a stable income. It’ll also force me to downsize my stuff. I’m a serial hobbyist and have… entirely too much stuff for any kind of compact living arrangement lol
House.
I want to play music at a reasonable volume and not worry that I’m bothering someone. I also never want to hear my neighbors’ music.
It’s a sad fact that much of the problems people have with apartments is simply due to their low quality construction. It’s perfectly possible to build a sound-proof apartment.
We need to bring back the Jeffrey Dahmer era of apartment construction.
I lived in a condo with thick concrete walls and floors but there’s only so much you can do about the doors and windows.
It wasn’t unbearably loud but I was gifted a paint and was mortified to learn my neighbors could hear me learning to play thanks to the vibrations
I wish I could learn to play the paint.
Same is true for most houses though.
Not really when the windows in my house are nowhere near my neighbor’s. My condo had a central staircase and a rear walk-up that were both well-uses
I never really lived in apartments much and now that I’m thinking about it, they suck. If there’s a fire, there’s no way my fatass would be able to survive.
The only time I lived in Apartments was when I was in Mainland China as a kid, there was no such thing as “Suburbs”, its just all tall building in a densely populated city, or villages that doesn’t have modern plumbing (and probably no internet either). I vaguely remember having to walk up the stairs because there was no elevators in the apartment. It gets very tireing.
Cell signal probably is HORRIBLE if you don’t have a 5G phone, and even if you do, you are gonna have like THOUSANDS of phones all pinging the same tower, so its gonna be very slow.
And when I think about it, if you ever like need an ambulance, that extra delay of getting you to ground level might cost your life.
I don’t like apartments.
When in China I love a nice big apartment because that’s what most families have access to especially if you want to live downtown. Countryside houses are nice but I prefer being able to just go out and do what I want. That said, I recently was walking around the countryside with my child and it is quite nice. Only 5 drive to small city and 20 to big city.
In America I 100% prefer a big house. I’ve lived in all of the above and since most American cities suck imo I would prefer to have my own land and space. Really makes me miss living in eastern piedmont with beautiful mountain views every time you get up.
In Japan I would also want a house! Best of both worlds were you can have your own big house and live downtown. You might not have much of a yard though. My dream would be this would a backyard big enough to play with the family, grill, and hang laundry.
I actually love apartments, but nice big ones. I love having a gym and pool that I don’t have to personally maintain, I love being up high and having a good view and a nice breeze on the balcony, and being walking distance to the metro. A detached house obviously beats the pants off a small, dark, poorly ventilated apartment with no amenities, which is probably why they cost 10X as much.
