Which house would you buy or avoid in this scenario? 1900 built Victorian vs. 2025 built Townhouse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1900 built Victorian:
Small front yard
Repairs needed
Beautiful home and interior
Street parking
Bus stop outside your front steps
Corner store across the street
Old mechanic equipment store next door
Higher crime city area

2025 Built Townhome:
No yard
Exurb location
New build and modern
Lower crime
Higher ranked schools
Townhome neighborhood

victo town no appeal to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1900 built Victorian:
Small front yard
Repairs needed
Beautiful home and interior
Street parking
Bus stop outside your front steps
Corner store across the street
Old mechanic equipment store next door
Higher crime city area

2025 Built Townhome:
No yard
Exurb location
New build and modern
Lower crime
Higher ranked schools
Townhome neighborhood

Nothing about victims appeals to me. Wouldn’t even consider.

[Anonymous]

Def the 1900 Victorian. Old has charm and usually better bones. New TH sounds cheesy and cheap.

[Anonymous]

Never buy a home with a bus stop in front of it.

[Anonymous]

I would look for another Victorian in the city

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean -- what matters most to you? To me, it is mostly a question of city vs. exurb. What do you like best? Will you have to commute for work? Are you handy? Both of these options come with drawbacks. I know what I would choose, but my choice is irrelevant to anyone but me.

Victorian era rowhome in DC with high crime, bus stop, mechanic shop versus new exurb townhouse with low crime, better schools, community amenities?

I'd buy neither and look for an attached or SHF or double in a suburb or a part of DC that you don't write high crime in the post.

[Anonymous]

Why are people so hesitant to just state the neighborhood locations in these posts? It’s an anonymous forum.

OP, say something like “one house is in Trinidad in DC and the other is in Aldie,” or something along those lines.

Sometimes in threads like these it turns out the OP lives 2,000 miles from the DC area.

[Anonymous]

This seems like a fake post. It’s hard to believe someone would narrow their choice down to to only two homes, where one is an old city house in need of repair in a high crime area and the other is a brand new exurbs townhouse in a cookie cutter development.

[Anonymous]

Do you have kids, op?