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1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?
Six. Seven if you count a few months with Scott's parents, which seems reasonable, though it wasn't really our space. Eight if you count two different dorm rooms in the same building as separate "apartments". I'm assuming there was only one house in California (I was too young to remember). Of those 8, 5 are houses, 2 dorm rooms, 1 townhouse.
2. Which was your favorite and why?
The current one, easily. It's ours. The others were rented, or staying with parents, which is not the same as having a place of your own. I love this place because it's big - and it has a library, even if I'm still working on that - and in the winter and spring the creek out back talks to itself and you - and there's birdsong in the morning - and it's home, now.
3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?
Stressful. Too much to do, and a time deadline; if you drop the ball it starts to get ugly. Tiring, hard work, dusty work, my allergies hate it, and you're doing stuff only to undo it at the other end. Things stay lost for weeks, months, occasionally years after a move. Ugh.
I generally find being moved (as in, having completed the move) exciting. Moving, however, is a frustrating, annoying, pain-in-the-butt.
4. What's more important, location or price?
This question assumes an either-or that I don't think is at all accurate. Both are important. Within reasonable constraints, location is more important, but if the price exceeds what you can reasonably pay off (not the maximum you can get a loan on, I'm postulating not being still in debt when you should have been retiring - and what they'll give you loans on is nuts).... Well, if the price exceeds that, no amount of location makes up for it.
5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?
Mmm, dream houses. Lessee. Hardwood floors and thick carpets as appropriate, a fireplace or two, a library with floor-to-ceiling shelves (generally I imagine this larger than the one we have, but yes, I was trying to bring this one closer to the dream), a stream or creek running nearby, in a clearing amidst a lot of forest (hey, we hit one my current house doesn't have in any way, shape, or form!), a gardener (yes, I'd rather reap the benefits without doing the work, but no, it isn't worth the cost), a living room space with vaulted ceilings and all over windows, a kitchen about like the one we have here, maybe slightly larger. Near (5 minutes' drive) to grocery store, electronics store, library, swimming pool. If I can't have the forest, I want a bus line near (not outside my front door, buses are noisy and I don't want that much traffic).
Anyone still wonder why I love this house so much? The living room isn't quite that good, but it has the deck doors and two nearly floor-to-ceiling windows, anyway. No nearby swimming pool, pass the test on the rest of those; the bus line is three blocks away. It's a pretty shoddy bus system, though, if we had a better one I'd be happier.
Put that way, we did darned good (at least by my standards, and Scott seems to feel similarly) with this place.
Six. Seven if you count a few months with Scott's parents, which seems reasonable, though it wasn't really our space. Eight if you count two different dorm rooms in the same building as separate "apartments". I'm assuming there was only one house in California (I was too young to remember). Of those 8, 5 are houses, 2 dorm rooms, 1 townhouse.
2. Which was your favorite and why?
The current one, easily. It's ours. The others were rented, or staying with parents, which is not the same as having a place of your own. I love this place because it's big - and it has a library, even if I'm still working on that - and in the winter and spring the creek out back talks to itself and you - and there's birdsong in the morning - and it's home, now.
3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?
Stressful. Too much to do, and a time deadline; if you drop the ball it starts to get ugly. Tiring, hard work, dusty work, my allergies hate it, and you're doing stuff only to undo it at the other end. Things stay lost for weeks, months, occasionally years after a move. Ugh.
I generally find being moved (as in, having completed the move) exciting. Moving, however, is a frustrating, annoying, pain-in-the-butt.
4. What's more important, location or price?
This question assumes an either-or that I don't think is at all accurate. Both are important. Within reasonable constraints, location is more important, but if the price exceeds what you can reasonably pay off (not the maximum you can get a loan on, I'm postulating not being still in debt when you should have been retiring - and what they'll give you loans on is nuts).... Well, if the price exceeds that, no amount of location makes up for it.
5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?
Mmm, dream houses. Lessee. Hardwood floors and thick carpets as appropriate, a fireplace or two, a library with floor-to-ceiling shelves (generally I imagine this larger than the one we have, but yes, I was trying to bring this one closer to the dream), a stream or creek running nearby, in a clearing amidst a lot of forest (hey, we hit one my current house doesn't have in any way, shape, or form!), a gardener (yes, I'd rather reap the benefits without doing the work, but no, it isn't worth the cost), a living room space with vaulted ceilings and all over windows, a kitchen about like the one we have here, maybe slightly larger. Near (5 minutes' drive) to grocery store, electronics store, library, swimming pool. If I can't have the forest, I want a bus line near (not outside my front door, buses are noisy and I don't want that much traffic).
Anyone still wonder why I love this house so much? The living room isn't quite that good, but it has the deck doors and two nearly floor-to-ceiling windows, anyway. No nearby swimming pool, pass the test on the rest of those; the bus line is three blocks away. It's a pretty shoddy bus system, though, if we had a better one I'd be happier.
Put that way, we did darned good (at least by my standards, and Scott seems to feel similarly) with this place.
