Has anyone bought a brand new house?

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Since I was a kid, I always wanted to live in a newer house in a nice subdivision. I grew up in an old, run-down 1940s house with only 2 bedrooms and no central air/heat.

Has anyone else here ever bought a new house (from the builder, not a realtor)? How does the process go? Hopefully, in a few years, I will earn enough money to buy one.

I bought a brand new flat a few years ago but never a new house.
I've bought houses but not new ones.
I like houses to have history - the older the better.
I have my eye on some haunted real estate.

I like the new ones because you can pick which style you want them to build. And since you can watch it so up, you can call out mistakes that are made and have them fixed before the house is finished.

I did that a bit with the flat.
It was a PITA.

Nope only apartments, and this current apartment kind of sucks but I have learned some things, living here because idk they did not do a very good job of fixing it up before we moved in. The dishwasher seemed to barely work, later on I got frusterated and googled if there was anything I could do about it before having to call maintenance, and found out they are supposed to be cleaned(idk i didn't know that) so I did all the cleaning recomendations I could find...had to pick gunk out of the sprayer blades in the dishwasher and there was so much even a bunch of plastic wrap stuck in there that I pulled out, and there is a drain filter that is supposed to be scrubbed out from time to time. And after 4 years we finally got the stove burner working that wasn't before....I was cleaning it the other day and lifted the lid up to do so and noticed maybe a wire connector going to the burner was loose, was not sure it was the case so waited for my boyfriend to get home to get a second opinion but he thought so to so plugged it in more securely and now the burner works. Uhh sorry if that is confusing just not quite sure how to explain the bit where burners on a stove are pluged into electrical wires underneath.

So idk if me and my boyfriend ever do get a house, we have learned a bit more of how to maintain things in a home, by living in crappy apartments where well they didn't really fix things up as well as they could before renting the apartment to us.

I think the filter for the fan over the stovetop needs replacing too, it barely works cause its all gunked up, I don't like spending extra money on an apartment but with the hassle of getting maintenance over, sometimes its easier to just fix it myself if I can figure out how. And for that seems I can just get a new filter for like 10 bucks on amazon but will probably check at walmart first. Or at our last apartment they wanted to come over to replace one of our blinds for a fee(one corner segment had fallen off on one side, but I guess that was a big eyesore for managment lol) or we could fix the 'problem' ourselves so we just bought some cheaper than the fee they wanted to charge blinds and replaced them ourselves.

I also want a new house because it makes me come across as a NT/normal person.

I am lucky I was able to mask enough to get a high paying job and a hot girlfriend. Now all I need is the nice house to feel complete.

I want others to be jealous of me. My whole life has been full of resentment about being too autistic to fit in when I was younger. Now I can turn the tables.

I've never bought a property of any kind and I probably won't either unless I happen to come into a lot of money where i can buy ine outright and am able to afford all the repairs for such a place

Never bought any house because I'm terminally poor, and unlikely ever to because I'm not in line to inherit anything, but even if I had some money I don't think I'd buy a new house.

Whenever I see new build houses they just seem like they're made out of cardboard, compared to the solid houses that were built a hundred years ago. My partners mum bought a Barratt home and within 5 or 6 years it was wrecked. And she's an old lady, she wasn't throwing parties in there. Bits were falling off it from day 1. And the gardens tend to be tiny and overlooked.

If I had a nice plot of land I'd like to commission a house to be built though.