To ask which of these would you choose (housing related)?

[Chasingaftermidnight]

1. Very attractive house with lovely garden in convenient location - quick walk to shops, amenities and transport links. Good schools, overall nice area.

However - parking is on-street with a residents’ permit system.

1. Less attractive house in less nice area on outskirts of town. A drive from transport links, shops and amenities. Local school not as good.

But it has a large drive with space for at least two cars.

What do you think?

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Why does someone always have to do this on threads with two choices?!

House one every time. The electric car thing is nonsense - there are charging points being installed in loads of places.

House 2 sounds horrendous. Grim suburbia with a drive v a beautiful place in a vibrant area. I’d get rid of the DH if he seriously thinks house 2 could possibly be an option.

Location location location

Over everything. Every time!

House 1.

We had permit parking at our last house. Could always park close enough. It was more than fine.

I'd rather have permit parking than not as with permit parking it's a relatively stable number of cars after the spaces.

We have a few friends living on roads in our town that are non permit and are near to town/pubs/parks and they really struggle as people park outside their house for the other amenities. Obviously they are well within their rights too but it makes it a difficult place to live for them. If they had permits it would be fine.

@WomanStanleyWoman

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Why does someone always have to do this on threads with two choices?!

House one every time. The electric car thing is nonsense - there are charging points being installed in loads of places.

Because I can't choose either of those things. And we were asked for our opinion. That's mine. Sorry!

But when there are only two options, you can’t choose option three - that’s a matter of fact, not opinion!

The first one.

Unless of course you get a neighbour like I have currently who parks his penis extension car like a twat across one of my two parking spaces and complains when I let one of the other neighbours park in my spare space .

Location, location, location. Always.

1. No brainer for me.

We have a drive - like many round us, but not many bother parking on it!

I would say bar shopping into the house when it’s rainy, then there’s no real need.

Friend of mine has house number 1 and it's a fab location. Sometimes a bit awkward to park if you visit

Can you convert the front garden into a wee parking space? Lots of his neighbours have ans got a Dropped kerb installed

We live in your house 1. No way in the world I'd swap for house 2.

I don't get the obsession with a driveway unless someone has very significant mobility issues.

1. But drive up and down the road at different times of day and on a weekend etc. We can always park within a few spaces of our house but there are some roads in our area that are an absolute nightmare.

One without a doubt.

Id go with house 2. Parking is really important to me and I'd worry that they can increase the price of PP whenever they want.

But a couple of my DH’s friends have told him they wouldn’t buy a house with no offstreet parking if it was the last house on earth, which has got to him.

It’s a man thing. We’ve lived in our house without off street parking for over 20 years. It’s never bothered me in the slightest, my bloke regularly moans about it.

No 1. I've lived in both and a driveway is a luxury but not a deal breaker