head of a cul de sac or entrance to a cul de sac?

[united4ever]

Which is best, have seen a street with two houses for sale at similar price but cannot decide which is the best location. It's only about 150m long cul de sac witb a bend. We have young kids but havent seen any playing out when we visited the street on a few occassions. Like being near the entrance because you still get no through traffic but dont feel quite as embedded in the street but still a part of it. Maybe overthinking it here! I guess it depends how nice the cul de sac is and how nice ykur neighbours turn out to be.....it kind of magnifies all that.

Were at the head of a cul de sac and it's quiter as all the cars don't come pass ours to get to theirs. Theirs 40 houses on ours.

Head of the cul de sac here too and I love it: not through traffic and v quiet. My children have adopted the turning bit for cars as their own personal playground/cycling area which works well as there rarely are any cars actually using it for its intended purpose.
We have very little to do with the wider neighbourhood/street, but get on v well with our direct neighbour btw.

I used to live at the head, then moved one road along to the entrance of another one. I hate it. Where we were before we had much less traffic, far fewer loud people walking down late at night, far fewer delivery vans etc and it was much more sociable as we would walk up and down the whole street to go anywhere and would pass people, get to recognise them and become friendly. Doesn't seem to work like that now. Feel much more disconnected, and get all the traffic and noise. Lose lose.

Obv cul de sac still nicer than thru road though.

I'd go for head for all the above reasons.

wish I lived at the entrance live at the head where all the bloody kids play and seem to think they own the road and everyones garden. No just get off my property and stop smashing footballs against my car you little brats

Head every time. We're about half way along and that's OK too.

head every time, safe for playing out, quieter, cars not parked outside. A bigger garden and more space too.

Head unless it is where every child for miles around congregates with footballs.

We're part way up, closer to the entrance than the head.

Couple of negatives to living at the head - children do congregate a little bit there when they play out. It is also used by on of the houses at the head as their own personal overflow car park (which would illogically drive me insane) and to be fair, if one of the (40) houses on the street has some kind of gathering / party and needs extra parking, they use the area at the head of the cul de sac. Other than that, its quieter, safer for children to play out. The head of the cul de sac has a little cut through (in the direction of the village) so its just as social whether you live at the top or the bottom.

I'd just go with which house you like best - our cul-de-sac has different sized gardens (head of cul-de-sac has bigger houses but smaller plots) for example.

We're at the head and get a more open view at the front down the road, rather than just the house opposite. Also, our plot benefits from the curve, so our back garden is much wider at the bottom than other houses on the straight bit. We've also has more room to extend at the back.

I have lived in the middle.

It depends how long the cul-de-sac is and how busy the road off it is. Mine was very small with only 7 houses so everyone turned in and turned round at the bottom.

On longer ones, people tend to turn round at the top, ie pulling in and reversing back out or reversing into the entrance rather than travelling all the way to the bottom.

Living at the head may well be the best place but it depends how long you will live there.

The one we lived on had been a new build 20 years previous, and had 3 and 4 bed houses on it meaning lots of families with young children. As far as I know they all played out together.

Roll on 20 years, all the children had left home and the parents were looking to retire or lead a quieter life and they hated the new children playing out. It was a case of we were here first. We moved out when the children were still little so they weren't complaining about ours but there were lots of sucked in breaths and festering resentment

Entrance here...but the road we face on to is pretty quiet anyway. I love it. I'd have taken a house at the head quite happily but given the choice I'd have picked the entrance. I think our plot size is bigger and the frontage looks nicer than the same house tucked in at the back.

Entirely depends on the layout of the road I think, as well as the size of the plots.

We usedvto live st the heaf of a cul de sac. Everyone had theirbown druveways so turning and parking wasn't an issue. We had small dc at thevtume and loved it. Really quiet, as no cars passing, and the children played out in the street all the time.

I'd definitely prefer head to entrance, assuming there's off road parking for all houses.