Awful house, great location or great house, awful location?

[morningpaper]

I can't decide....

I know it's supposed to be location location location ... But can I bear to live in a fugly house?!?

Help me!!

Definitely location... As said by someone who went the other way and it was the biggest financial & emotional mistake of our lives.

You can always make a house better, you can't change the location of it.

In what way is it ugly? Can you make any changes to make it a bit prettier?

It's a 1970s terrace with red tiled upper exterior

Bleargh

Sod the house, it's so lovely to see you on here again!

Everyone else says location but I say house.

It needs to have lots of history and ghosts.

Ooh hello :)

I am no help. We're currently playing that game at home and trying to decide.

Currently we have awesome location, cute house but just too small and can't afford to move to a bigger place locally.

MorningPaper? Have I gone back in time? Bloody hell.

Does the exterior of a house matter as much as the interior? The house we have just bought isn't particularly pretty (1960s semi), but the interior is great. Large downstairs rooms, amazing kitchen. Well proportioned bedrooms, great garden. The location was what sold it to us (and the kitchen!). Once you are on the inside, once the door is shut, does it really matter?

Hmm I have enough history and ghosts myself...

Fugly house overlooks stream and park!!

Gorgeous house overlooks other houses

Hmmm

I say cute. From the outside. Inside it is terrible layout and very dated.

Location.
you don't have to look at the house once inside.
and style up the exterior, it will be fine.

Could you render the outside of the 70s place to make it less horrible?

Views are important. We will overlook the village green. That means a lot.

Channelling K n P "location x 3"

You know it makes sense.

I remember an interview with Kirsty Allsop, where she couldn't get her dream house, so went for the one across the road, which looks ugly. She looks out of her house at nice houses every morning, the neighbours look at her monstrosity.

Go for location, so long as the house is feasible - kitchen and bathroom a reasonable size etc.

Buy the fugly house and make it beautiful. It is possible.
Is it detached or semi?

I've gone for house over location before and was utterly miserable...

House is midterrace

Like this

Argh

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IT IS BREATHTAKINGLY UGLY

But AMAZING views

I've only had beautiful houses before

TORN

The back of it is amazing

The front of it is ARGH

I thought it would be much worse! That's just an average boring house.

I'm a slightly better house in a slightly worse location.

Lots of friends living in the great area but tiny houses and cost lots (victorian terrace, back yard, galley kitchen, poky rooms, 2 bed & a box) . We live in 4 bed 1900s semi with big kitchen & garden but our area doesn't have loads of nice restaurants bars and independent shops, it has a new precinct with Aldi, sainsbos, costa and value shops.) Each to their own.

I wouldn't live anywhere rough just to get a nice house. But I also wouldn't live in a shoebox just to be in a good area.

Is all else equal? I would have thought the most important consideration would be schools at the moment.

Location every single time.

I live in an ugly house. BUT close (as in 5-10mins) to schools, train, shops etc. It matters hugely because I don't spend my time ferrying children around.

So I love the house because it makes my life so much easier and nicer.