House or Appartment?

[sweetnpetite]

What do you live in?

I live in a shoe...

... I have so many children, I don't know what to do...

 

[BlackShanglan]

House. It's pleasant. But this did bring back fond memories of the Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch:

"Oh, we used to dream o' livin' in a corridor! Would've been a palace to us."

Shanglan

 

[English Lady]

A terraced house between two sets of drunken, violent neighbours

 

[ElizabethWest]

House. 3BR 2bath. Me and three dogs. At least after tomorrow...

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

House

 

[LadyJeanne]

An apartment in a 102-year-old Victorian that's been divided up. I have half the third floor and half the attic, overlooking the street. It has a bit of a split personality as the downstairs has the Victorian touches like bay windows and a curved ceiling, but the attic's been done more recently and is spare and very open, like a loft space. Tropical plants abound in both spaces.

 

[Liar]

The day I live in a house is the day I'm hooked up with an SO that enjoys gardning. I am alot of things, but good with plants is not one of them.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

A tiny apartment next to a family of drunks and retards in a neighbourhood where there has been 2 murders in the last 12 months.

The really sad thing is that after checking out the available apartments in this town, I've actually come to the conclusion that I already AM living in the bst apartment there is in this town.

 

[Just-Legal]

Apartment, next to a converted Mental Hospital, in an environment that reminds me of Halls of Residence.

Why?

Taxi's at all hours. Beer cans/bottles everywhere. Shouted conversations across the carpark, neighbours coming and going all hours, and wild parties.

I swear, we are the youngest residents and the BEST BEHAVED!!

 

[KharisLeaf82]

Experienced Both

I live in a house now. . .I miss living in an apartment. Yea, I'm wierd.

*Kharis*

 

[gauchecritic]

Apartment, next to a converted Mental Hospital

Posh oil.

I wanted to do the Monty Python thing but got beaten to it.

There were undred and twenty six of us living in shoe box, in 'middle o' 'road...

 

[Just-Legal]

Posh oil.

I wanted to do the Monty Python thing but got beaten to it.

There were undred and twenty six of us living in shoe box, in 'middle o' 'road...

<< RENTING! Skint!

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Apartment.

Yay.

 

[neonlyte]

I'm fortunate enough to have both.

We have a house in England and in-laws old properties in Portugal. (2 ruins on a small farm and an apartment building dating from 1930's)

I'm in the process of converting and renovating the apartments for sale. If you know anyone who wants a 2bed refurbished apartment near Lisbon for £60k - send them my way.

 

[cloudy]

Medium sized house on 17+ acres way out in the middle of east bumfuck.

 

[Liar]

I'm fortunate enough to have both.

We have a house in England and in-laws old properties in Portugal. (2 ruins on a small farm and an apartment building dating from 1930's)

I'm in the process of converting and renovating the apartments for sale. If you know anyone who wants a 2bed refurbished apartment near Lisbon for £60k - send them my way.

Me!
It's just a matter of digging up £60k

 

[oggbashan]

Two houses

The new one is 1939 Art Deco detached overlooking the sea. 4 bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms and every room has a sea view.

The old one is a 1903 semi-detached with 5 bedrooms, four living rooms, two bathrooms and a massive attic ripe for conversion if 5 bedrooms aren't enough. The smallest bedroom is twelve foot square. 9 working fireplaces if you like an open fire and two gas-fired central heating systems if you can't be bothered today. Kitchen fifteen foot by twelve foot and utility room for washing machine etc. Remains of a garage and off street parking for 4 more cars. Gardens front and rear, conservatory, outside toilet for the gardener and the builders who seem to have been resident for last two years. Half a mile to the sea. Half a mile to the station. Bus stop outside the other half of the semi. A snip at three hundred thousand pounds and will be on the market soon.

Og

 

[SeaCat]

Lived in both, more than once. Started in an apartment when I first got married, then moved into a rental house. This was a wood frame building over one hundred and ten years old. We loved it although we did do a lot of work in it. Reglazed most of the windows, redid all of the wiring including the panel. Re did several of the walls. All with the owners permision of course. When the owners saw it after we had it comfortable they loved it so much they refused to renew the lease then sold the place for over $300k.

We now live in a strange breed of apartment. It is a two floor Townhouse in a six story apartment building. Oh how we love this place. It has almost eight hundred square feet of floor space not counting the two hundred square foot fenced courtyard. (Yes the fence is rather large not to mention quite strong. I rebuilt it after the hurricanes.) It does have several drawbacks though. My neighbor on the left thinks he's entitles to free handouts. My neighbor two doors down on the right is watched by Jeff Foxworthy for new material. The owner of the building has announced that he intends to sell the building. (I'm not worried about this.) Oh and the building is smack in the middle of a shooting gallery. There have been something like fifteen murders within three miles of us. (My wife and I often sit outside and play name that caliber in the evening while drinking coffee.)

Cat

 

[minsue]

House that recently became officially mine and mine alone. Unfortunately, so did the mortgage.

 

[rgraham666]

I live in a house run by a charity, so it's rent geared to income.

Lucky, because housing like this is rare, and the cheapest bachelor in Toronto is about $45 a month more than my disability pay.

Would like to move to larger digs, but there's a five year waiting list for bachelors and eight years for a one bedroom. If I had a family, my kids would be grown before I got a place I could raise them in.

I mostly live in the room alloted to me. It's good now but most of the time my roommates are street people and/or severely mentally ill, so they aren't a lot of fun to be around. So I rarely come out.

 

[matriarch]

A tiny-perfect-for-one-or-two-very-close-people 'cottage', two minutes walk from the sea, in a popular yachting resort. Tiny living room, surprisingly large kitchen/diner, with a huge pine table and chairs in front of floor to ceiling patio doors facing south. Bright, airy and warm. Steep narrow stairs to the first floor which houses one large bedroom and the large, split level bathroom. Door to second stairway to converted attic bedroom with sloping window in the roof at the back, and an old, tiny dormer window at the front overlooking the roofs of the houses and giving a view into the streets, and the top of the yacht masts in the marina.

Unfortunately very close to two very popular and noisy pubs, the road is a popular cut-through for kids, drunks, whatever..especially at 2 in the morning.......and the kids think its hilarious to walk along the pavement banging on the doors and windows.

But, strangely enough......I've become very attached to this little house. It feels like home. Even it it isn't mine. Now if only I could get it moved half a mile back from the town centre, where its quieter...........

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I live in a turn ot the century farm house in what used to be farm country but is now Yuppie Land.

It's a nice quiet neighborhood, but borring. So to spice my house up I painted it bright blue with bright yellow trim. (The restof the neighborhood is white/grey/beigh vinyl siding. )

 

[virgin_with_big_tits]

in a condo... i had to be different!

 

[flawed_ethics]

Apartment. The joys of being around campus. The complex is suited next to a nature reserve, which is really nice, allowing for peace and quiet right in my backyard. Major drawbacks include 'students' (and I use the word in the purely academic sense - they pay tuition to a university, and interpret that as a right not to attend classes, but instead become alcoholics,) who are known to create a ruckus at all hours.

Huzzah!

 

[TxRad]

A small 2 bedroom, 2 bath house on a half acrea of land. It's situated on a finger point sticking out in the lower end of the lake.. yes water on three sides although i can't see it. It makes for cool breezes on hot texas summer days and the lake steers most of the bad storms around me.... There is an Oak in the front yard that 2 people can't reach around... it is my anchor and shade at the same time... it adds so much peace to the place.

It's an older neighborhood, people wise, mostly retired.... I'm 58 and one of the younger set around here....