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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I currently live in a 5000 sq. foot house.  No kids yet.  Previous to buying the house we rented for years, and lived in a one-bedroom apartment in an urban high rise, a two bedroom rental condo in a third floor walk up buidling in Dupont, a three level rental townhouse in Bethesda, and finally our current single family house.

Out of all of these, I liked the rental townhouse and the single family house best.  I hated living in apartments.  I didn't like communal living, the way you could smell your neighbors' cigarette smoke coming under your front door, hear their music and noise from your walls, and were subjected to having to endure improvements on the building (such as painting the walls of your floor, having to endure the paint smell for weeks, etc.).  I also didn't like being cramped in an apartment and having no storage space.

The townhouse was nice (rental) because it was more space and because we didn't have to deal with smells or noise from interior units on a common hallway.  Though we still heard noise from the unit next door but it wasn't as bad.  I just didn't like the communal living aspect of the townhouse.

So when we decided to buy our first place, we wanted to buy a big house on a huge yard.  We wanted a huge yard (2 acres) so that we wouldn't have to be bothered by neighbors.  Though the downside of a house is the expense when something breaks and all the maintenance and upkeep on a larger property.[/quote]

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