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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp- well is sounds to me that you are doing good construction. There is definitely good construction out there. Certainly you could open up an old home and find a shit show of old wiring and turn of the century newspapers as insulation.
My point is that it really does come down to taste.
I could have bought a huge, new house a little further out. Commuting isn't an issue for us. I prefer something that's been around and seen some stuff.
If I had had over a million I would have looked to renovate closer in, not find new construction close in.
It's ok to prefer new things, but many people don't like the soullessness of new homes.[/quote]

Soullessness is an intangible. To some people, a house is soulless if no one has lived there before. This cannot be mitigated until a couple of generations come and go.  To others, any house located in a neighborhood they see as undesirable or lacking in substance or too remote, is soulless.  It cannot be defined in architectural, or quality-of-construction terms. What's soulless to one person is a welcome blank slate to build memories to another.   What's charming and full of character to one person is suffocating to another.[/quote]

Intangible maybe... But it's pretty universally understood that when a home has soul - it's been around awhile. Yes, some people like blank slates. They aren't the people buying and loving old brick ramblers, colonials, and cape cods. The people walking into their brand spanking new house aren't swept away by the feeling of history. Yes these two sides value exactly what the other side loathes. Its not jealousy, just different tastes.[/quote]
If your standard of home soul is that this home needs to have been around for a while, then any new home - whether a custom build with an award-winning architect or a cookie-cutter subdivision unit - has no soul.  There is no remedy for that but time, and it's unfair to hold that against new homes.[/quote]

Ummm... Yes. That is exactly what I will do. Because that is my preference and taste. 
It's totally ok to want a new home. Don't feel insecure about that. There are many things to recommend a new home. You new build people need to calm down and be ok that some people would not make the same choice. It doesn't invalidate your preference. I have family that has built the most gorgeous custom home. You would think it's a historic Reno- really breath taking. It's still just missing something.
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I actually don't have a dog in this fight as I live in an older home about which I have no strong feelings. I am just pointing out that the standard of soul=must have housed a few generations has nothing to do with aesthetics or build quality, which is typically what people have against new homes.  The argument of "it's not old enough" cannot be helped with looks or quality of construction. It's not a "you new build people" thing. It's a logic thing. [/quote]

You say it's a logic thing, but I'm not following. Are saying some people are making a choice based on emotions ( older homes) , and some folks are basing it on logic ( new build)?[/quote]

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