House 1
Thirty minutes by bus out of town (work)
Ex council so large rooms (3 doubles) but needs a lot of work (new kitchen, stairs)
Backs onto a large building trade centre (noisy but only 7am- 5pm weekdays)
Unknown neighbours but seem ok
Roughish area, lots of people leaving sofas mattresses etc outside, dog poo, litter
Close (walking distance) to nice inner city parts
Thirty minute cycle in opposite direction to traffic from kids school which I hope to keep them in
Similar diversity to where we live now which is good
On busy-ish main road (we have cats also air pollution? Noise?)
Choice of two great secondary schools
Further from family (elderly parents)
House 2
One hour plus from town on bus (work)
Cute cottage with no work needed, done to high spec
Smaller rooms, less storage
Quiet road, mostly old people and families
Forty minute drive to school but in same direction as work
Majority white British, very suburban
One secondary (not great)
Closer to family