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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Apartment. I really hate the suburbs
House. I’ve accepted the fact that neighbors exist. But the further away they are, the better.
Agree. I moved from a post WWII suburb to a town with 112 people to 40 acres and only 1 neighbor. I can’t stand people and this is much better.
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get some insurance to replace your replaceable belongings when a high schooler’s still-burning joint tossed on your outdated status symbol burns your house and everything in it.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?
TIL I live in a prison 🤣
I mean, unless you count this shitty planet as a prison… 🤔
The pros and cons between either is entirely up to preference.
Apartment
Pros:
- Not having to worry too much about maintenance, as there are teams of maintenance people to call to have them handle problems.
- If you live small and do not see the point of a home, apartments are for you.
- Designated parking lots or areas
- Some places can be affordable
- Some cool things can be offered like pools, some community related things .etc
- You may have some leniency for when you’re billed for rent/utilities
The Depends:
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Bad or Good landowners determine how well you’re going to live in an apartment. There’s really no strong pro or con because it can vary. You could live in an apartment atmosphere and the landowner doesn’t give two shits about you or anyone else except themselves. But you could also live in an apartment atmosphere where the landowner does care about everyone.
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Bad or Good Tenants can also be a dealbreaker. Good tenants are the ones who leave you the hell alone and actually do not try breaking the lease agreements, they’re nice and can be approached without conflict. Bad tenants, everyone knows these types. Blasting music for all to hear, having barking/needy dogs that whine and whimper so you can hear them. Vandalizing the building or in general. Having maintenance tied up because they can’t stop being a problem. Having to have police called multiple times.
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Lease agreements can vary, some may make you feel like you’re more restricted than usual, like I know my apartment management don’t really like the idea of holes in walls, including ones made by pushpins. They sometimes will do random check arounds of the apartment. It really depends on the agreement.
Cons:
- Finding affordable apartments
- Finding apartments that have accessibility, like places to go, jobs to work at .etc
- Not enough tenant protections
- Sometimes you don’t really feel like you’re at home
- Options like finding different ISPs may be limited
House
Pros
- You are entitled to do with as you wish, no neighbors except neighborhoods, you have your own rules
- Your property applies to above
- You build equity
- Family expansion is far safer
Cons
- Good luck finding an affordable home
- You are subjected to higher rates/bills for utilities
- You are paying for EVERYTHING that happens either on the property or with the home
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.
Is this about rent vs buy or freestanding house with yard vs unit in a high rise? Because you could rent a house and buy a condo but I know outside the us bought hirise things are often called apartments.
Second option. My apartment is in an apartment complex - so I guess what you’d call a high rise unit (one of those places with pool, gym, etc. for the residents). I was renting it while living there permanently but when I bought the house I was made an offer to buy it out (they calculated the price based on the amount of rent paid, property value, etc.) and I chose to take the offer so I also still have that apartment and use it quite often when I have work until late at night in the city and stuff.
well. you are living my dream. downtown condo with like a nice weekend getaway on a nice wooded rural area would be my dream. I degress though. Im a city boy. I like walking, and biking, and transit, and hate cars. I like having many options close to where I am at. I also like the little close community you get. Like my neighbor and I bring up each others packages when we are returning from some place so its right at the door. I also like the security like that. Everyone moves packages inside when they come even if they don’t move them further (unless to heavy :) Then also like if I go on vacation I worry less with my condo. Someone would have to break into the complex to then break into my place and would likely draw my neighbors attention if they take to much time or are using something that makes a lot of noise. When I was in a house leaving it for a week could guarantee a break in as it was easy as busting a window. That being said I do totally miss having a nice garden. I can grow things on the balcony but its more work for less. Could literally throw seeds down in spring and get stuff to harvest in fall. I mean theoretically. I put in some work and did prep the space more and water and stuff but im sure I could have been that lazy and get more than I can from a balcony. The reason the balcony is more work is largely watering. With containers you have to water more often and can’t over water. With a garden you put in a sprinkler and turn the tap after the sun goes down in the evening and you don’t want to do to little but if you over do it, as long as its not to much, its fine.
House because landlords are shittier than contractors on average. I want to own where I live and if someone is being a piece of shit I am free to fire them on the spot.
Also, I want space for my family and a garden.
Location is the most iportant, meaning that the realistic option is appartment
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Can get fresh breakfast on the week-end with a 5 minutes walk, and do not need to plan a weekly grocery trip when I have everything down the stairs
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Do not need to drive home if I get a drink
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Have access to tons of activities within a reasonable distance, no matter whether I want to learn Korean, watch stand-up comedy or listen to underground heavy metal
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Kids can quickly get some autonomy compared to suburb where road are full of cars and parents need a car to go every where.
I think I lucked out because I live in the suburbs, but it’s a very walkable suburb. There are sidewalks, there is public transportation, and I can walk to the grocery store and back in under a mile.
There are parks nearby within walking distance, with sidewalks between my house and the park for kids to play in, and all of the main streets have bike lanes.
I live in America, this is not like European normal standard.
Oregon and Washington and most of California have a lot going for it as far as human amenities in suburban spaces.
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House I don’t have to hear my neighbors. I don’t have to smell them when I walk out in the hallway.
I don’t have to hear their radios blaring at all hours. If something goes wrong in the house, it’s up to me to fix it. IfI’m in an apartment, the landlord may or may not fix anything. House values normally will go up. Which means at some point down the road I can actually sell it. Get some money out of it that increase in value will account for whatI had to put into the house to keep it running. In an apartment I have nothing. I’m just literally giving the money to someone .
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.
Wow wow wow. Slow down. Country side is still shit
And better public transit than suburbia, maybe even better than the city it’s near
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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
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 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.
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 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.
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