What type of housing would you not want to live?

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House , Flat Penthouse , Caravan etc

I would probably not want to live on the top floor of a massive block of flats, couldn't be bothered.

A flat unless it was ground floor. I like the outside too much

I always think I could live in most sorts of houses and in most places. Yes, I would prefer some more than others but I could definitely make a lot of places feel homely.

I wouldn't want to live in a caravan though. I definitely wouldn't choose to live in one, mainly because of the bathrooms. They always feel so crampt and small.

A bungalow or a town house

I couldn't live on the top floor of a tower either, I don't care if its a £2,000,000 penthouse. 45 floors up? No chance.

I have a relative who lives in a mahoosive house with acres of land.

It's luxurious but just too big to ever feel homely.

Any 1960&70’s low rise flats on an estate.

Brutalist horrors. My mental heath dissolves at the thought of it.

Flat. I dont want to pay ground rent or service charges not to mention if buying never actually owning the property just owning the time the live there..

A 3 storey town house - the stairs are not for me.

A park home
A bungalow of any kind in fact
A house that was massively too big

High up/ high rise. I used to tell myself that they were fire safe and I was being overly anxious about safety. After Grenfell I can't convince myself of that anymore. I've also known a couple of people to fall/jump/be pushed

Anywhere that didn’t have some kind of direct access to outside space would not be my first choice.

Anything that isn't detached, reasonably spacious and with a garden.

I used to babysit for a family that had this massive house overlooking fields and all the back was floor to ceiling glass. I hated it and had to draw the curtains as soon as they left. Give me a standard 3 bed semi with solid brick walls any day over that.

No caravan, nothing that's attached to a neighboring dwelling. So no apartments, townhouses, etc.

I wouldn't want to live in:

Caravan.
Mobile home.
Cottage with beams and low ceilings.
Maisonette or flat unless sound insulation was brilliant.

Mid-terraced.

Spent a long time living in a top floor flat never again

New builds. Always seem like the walls are flimsy and room proportions off. I much prefer a nice solid period house.

Anything at height. I am really scared of heights, and it is far worse if the heights are man made (ie bridges and buildings are a million times more terrifying than mountains and cliffs, I really don't know why though). I would live in a ground floor bed sit over a skyscraper penthouse l, I cannot do heights, it is unbearable.

My first time buy was a flat with no garden or access to outside, particularly during lockdown I thought how much harder that would have been.

I live in a mid terrace in a naice area. Have access from the back of my humungous garden to my own garage and a gate to the lane for delivery of stuff or whatever.

Love it. For now obv.

But back on topic, a flat with no outside space NO. A flat that has charges NO.

I do really understand that many choose what suits them and their pockets, so don't wish to sound awful just the same.

But no outside space is a total no no for me anyway.

Flat (I want a garden) and townhouse (I don’t want to sleep on a separate floor to my kids - weird fear)

I also wouldn’t ever live in a semi detached/terraced house now I have a detached as I like the silence too much

A maisonette, flat, terrace or semi.

I have been watching Manctopia on Channel 4, about the huge property development going on in Manchester. Just watching the scenes in the 44th floor penthouse gave me vertigo. So no tower blocks or skyscrapers for me, however posh.

I agree about glass walls giving you the night time willies!
I actually would love to be at the top of the tower.

For me - isolated in the country- too creepy! I need street lights...

Weirdly I could live in a caravan or bungalow but cba with all the stairs of a townhouse

A new build