Manhattan Apartment vs House
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Miracle on 34th Street
cantadora-212-57670 — 9 years ago(December 11, 2016 11:38 PM)
Just watching this now for the first time since I was a kid and I have to say that I would very much prefer the apartment over the house. The apartment looked like it was in an awesome location! Having a yard is over-rated. We never even go out into ours. (To be fair, we don't have kids and our cat is an indoor one, so there's really no need to).
P.S. FWIW, my wife and I actually live in a house and often talk about downsizing into an apartment. Things like maintenance (ex. fixing our broken HVAC last year) and yard-work really suck. I'd rather cut those things back out of my life, personally.
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FlushingCaps — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 11:29 AM)
There are plenty of people who have good reason to prefer an apartment to a house, and vice-versa.
If you have kids, even more so in 1947 than today, a yard is a wonderful thing to have where they can play by themselves and with their friends. Adults with houses in earlier times would like the chance for a cooler place in the summerair conditioning was rareand lots of folks would host parties in their back yardsoften involving use of the barbecue.
Many people prefer having neighbors 30 feet or more distant from their home, instead of right on the other side of the wall, for their own privacy as well as not having to hear loud noises by the neighbors. In a big apartment, you have neighbors on both sides of your residence, as well as right above and right below you. You have to wait for an elevator every time you want to go outside. And you probably have at least a 4-minute wait and walk from leaving your home until you can get inside your carlonger if in Manhattan. In a house, even with the detached garages most folks had in 1947, you close the door to your house and inside your car within 40 seconds.
To many people, the big plus in buying a house instead of renting is that after decades of living there, if you want to retire to, say Florida or North Carolina, you can sell your house for a nice chunk of change. When you leave your apartment, you don't get paid for doing so.
Thinking of Christmas time, if I live in an NYC apartment and want to have a party with lots of relatives, they have to pay to park blocks from my place. I cannot decorate my apartment on the outsideprobably cannot have a real Christmas tree. At my house, they park in my driveway, admire all the work I did on the lights, and tell me I cut down a really nice tree this year.
I've gone on long enough. I'll let someone else make the case for an apartment. To restate: For many people, the apartment IS the better course to take. But it's not for me.
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joe_538 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 10:53 AM)
Looks like Flushing hit most of the major points in favor of a home.
My family and I stayed in an apartment for a few months while our new house was being built, and I couldn't imagine living in one permanently. There was noise from the other apartments and in the hall late at night. Just watching TV in the living room felt like being in a waiting room with all the outside noises.
A yard is important to people with children or dogs; the kids can step outside and run around at a moment's notice, and be called in for dinner when they need to be. You can launch fireworks, play volleyball, have a garden, a pool, a cookout, backyard camping, graduation parties, a bonfire, treehouse, jungle gym, hone up on archery, and get a crossbow sighted in (or a rifle, depending on local laws). It's also good for storing bigger things like a trailer, boat, or camper.
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rickathedj — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 11:03 AM)
edit A basement workshop is something else I couldn't do without.
My radial arm saw and Shopsmith would not go over well in an apartment.
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