Where would you rather live a house or an apartment?

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A house in quiet surroundings. No noise from other people.
A house that's full of light, bright, cheery.
Warm wood colors.
Natural fabrics.

It's northern side shielded from cold winter winds by deep green forest.
It's eastern side with fine windows to greet the sunrise.
It's southern side with a glorious view over lightly rolling fields.
It's western side with shaded openings to catch the golden light of long late-summer afternoons.



Physical health is not up to taking care of one.

A house.Id like to have a decent yard, a deck to sit back on and have a cold beer on after work, bbq on, and just relax.I would like a yard so I could have a fire pit. With a house, I could also play my music louder without complaint, have a cat or two, and have lots of room to do what I wish and focus on as far as special interests go

I hope to buy a house after next year or so in Red Deer....

House. A shack away from society specifically.

So houses are popular five times(approx) more than apartments as of now (actually 4.7..) I wonder how it sums upwiththe rest of the world.

btw - I would too like a loft in a central metropolitan area.
a big house needs big maintainence and is often too uncompilable with a smooth , fast stream of life.
and they are on the ground so it adds up as well..

Houses apart topic

Apartments are not really "apart". Noises, smells, cockroaches, elevators, garbage, cramped.

Glad it is not for me.

House. Yard. Dog.

That's my dream, right there.


I'm now living in an apartment again (a little less than 4 months in, 1 week left), and I HATE HATE HATE it.

It's dark. There's lots of loud people at weird times (gee, 1 AM? Great time to shout at your friends or neighbors!), no yard, and no view outside (just a big tree blocking everything), bad smell in the kitchen (no matter how hard I clean, it still stinks), and the first 3 months I had a terrible, volatile neighbor who would SCREAM at her roommate all the time, and was visited often by people who looked like thugs.

Because I don't feel comfortable either on the apartment grounds, or the neighborhood that it's in (flat, very concrete style of buildings, lots of traffic and noise, high density)... it's EXTREMELY difficult to get myself to even go outside.

In order for me to see anything nice or interesting outside, I need to drive, and if I don't feel like driving (through all the noise and traffic...), it ain't going to happen. There are a couple of alright parks nearby, but parks just feel weird and artificial to me, especially here in the desert, where they look nothing like the natural landscape.


My next stop is my parents house. It has a yard, 2 dogs, great view, generally quiet, much more sunlight inside, immediate access to natural/undeveloped areas that are fun to explore, slightly less immediate (but still easily walkable) access to forest land, and a quick drive to real wilderness, and in a hilly/less dense/much lower traffic town which is actually enjoyable for me to walk around in.


I am where I am right now for three reasons-only:

Wanting to be away from loud roommates who wake me up at night - Guess what? In an apartment, you still share walls, and your neighbors can be just as bad.

Wanting to be where I could find a job in my field - Guess what? Eight months unemployed, and I haven't found jack.

Wanting to be near my 'friends' - Guess what? I hardly ever get to see any of these people.


If I'm going to be stuck with minimum wage crap (with 3 college degrees and a 3.9 GPA in my main field of study), I sure as hell aren't going to waste my life in a big dense ugly loud city.

I chose a house. Like the above poster said, sharing walls is hell. Unfortunately, my current house shares one wall with another house. So, there are times when I wish I could separate the two, with a brick wall!

I'm a minimalist too. This is my style:

http://www.homedesignfind.com/wp-conten ... -house.jpg

Ultra modern, modular design, made of metal and concrete and stone and glass.

On a beach far away from anyone, of course. And at least 1/2 mile from a major road or any source of urban noise.

I'd surf, ride my bike, run on the beach at sunset, drive a Jeep around the shore. It'd be perfect.

I've already tried that lifestyle for a short while. Had to return to my reality though.

House since you don't have much space outside or inside in an apartment. Plus I want to keep my pets and not have the landlord on my ass. >_<

But a big backyard or land is what's more important to me.....

When I practise my piano in my apartment, I hear the man living below begin to stamp his feet. It's making me reluctant to practise without using headphones which hurts my ears. Plus acoustic pianos are great. I used to think apartments were great because they use less land and encourage less car use. But I think unless they're well organised and the people in them are reasonably genial, they can be a nightmare.

I'm sure apartments in Hong Kong are fine to live in though. Almost everyone lives like that there so people probably don't mind noise and tolerate more. And I think Hong Kong is an example of why apartments can be useful. In that instance the large amount of them has managed to make it possible for stretches of beautiful land to be preserved without developments encroaching.

Endless suburbia caused by population rise and most people wanting a house is a problem. I think the solution would to be have lots of smaller towns and not let sprawl go beyond a point where it's managable to walk from one's house to essential facilities like shops and restaurants and parks, but that would require a housing law, something there currently doesn't seem to be much of a will for.

A house. I currently live in an apartment and am not the queen of my home. A cute dog would be great! No neighbors and their parties and paranoid BS! No BS or snobbishness from the office people.

It’s hard to say. I have only lived in apartments, 4 different ones. I can’t stand having people all around me like that. We live on 4th floor in a stairs of 8 apartments in a block with 4 stairs. It wasn’t so bad earlier since half of the people living here were old. It was quiet, the way I like it. But now there are 4 kids living here, and there is a lot of screaming. All 4 are 3 or younger. It’s driving me up the wall. In addition there isn’t much space, and we are constantly looking for something better. Have been for years.

I have never lived in a house, and I know that there is a lot of work to be done in a house. Damages in need of being fixed. I’m not at all practical, so a house would be hard to maintain.

My dream is a small farm, with space for pets and running a rescue center.