Which house?

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House A (where we live currently) 1950's, small driveway set close to quite road, not an attractive street or house
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House B - 1930's house set right back from a main road (near schools so 30 mile speed limit), attractive street and pretty looking house nice big drive

Inside house b bigger downstairs but smaller upstairs and garden is smaller and more like a courtyard at the minute.

How important is it that the house looks nice from the outside and is on a pretty street?

who cares what it looks like (as long as it is well-maintained) - you won't be looking at it!

what's wrong with the house A street?

I'd say B, but I would be put off by small garden.
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House b

I'd say house attractiveness is incredibly important if you have the choice.

If you have DCs is a decent sized garden not important to you all?

I'll try and add the gardens pictures bear with me..

Is there a price difference?

This is house b's (pretty house) garden this is basically it no lawn so we would need to do something and as no garage we would need to put a shed somewhere too

Ok so house a from the front

And house a garden

Money wise about the same including the cost of moving

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House A, because I wouldn't want to live on a busy road, the garden is much nicer, and it has a garage.

House b doesn't look much 'prettier' to me, wouldn't like the main road or the lack of much garden. I'd stick with house a or find a house c

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House A.

House B does not look that different to my eye and the back garden is basically a car park!

Oh, I had expected house a to be really ugly and house b to be gorgeous. They don't look that different from the outside. Is house b much nicer inside, with original features? Based on the outside, it's not worth moving.

I expected House A to be fugly but I like it :-)

I go with the principle that once you are inside you don't see how the outside looks so it's the inside space/decor that counts more

These are the difference I'll add them all now

Current house- an elderly area not many families, no baby grouos etc. within walking distance, street is ok mainly retired people but street looks tired and cars parked wverywhere. Outstanding primary school. Has parquet floor throughout and downstairs toilet- which the pretty house doesn't.

House b- more family area, school is good. Baby groups within walking. Pretty house. More parking. Nice looking road all the houses are well looked after.

Depends what you need, I would go for the one with the big frontage as we have 2 cars and a caravan and no children at home. If you have small children though, you would probably want a larger back garden. A large frontage is a bit wasted if you're not going to use it as a carpark

The large front would be ideal when we have visitors over so usually 3 times a week but day to day our current drive is fine although I don't like the fact we are so close to the street

I would have said huse A just stay where you are and spend the money on something else. But now you have added lifestyle factor family area of house B sounds like a better place to live - assuming you have family.

I must admit I look at a lot of houses and if the approach is scruffy it puts me off including manky add on porches or mismatched paint/plaster/windows etc. BUT those things you can always change I guess - you can't move facilities.

We live on a street where there are mainly older people - we are in our 50's, so older too and I often comment on it, the thing is a lot of young people with children can't afford to buy these houses, so more and more these streets are being populated by older people who bought years ago. House B could turn out to be like this with mainly older people in the street.

Your house A looks fine by the way and just as good looking as house B,

You want house b so there you have it. House b.

Remember that baby groups are a temporary thing. In a few years, when you're all done having babies (provided you're not a CM), then it's a non-issue. Look at long term stuff.