Do you prefer houses or apartments?

[MOZZYSTAR]

As the title asks! Which do you prefer? Why?

[Kytrin]

House for a few reasons....

1. The view. I've got a lovely medium with a gorgeous view and you simply don't get that with apartments.
2. Space. Apartments are too small, limited, and cramped for my taste. I can never get the kind of looks I want in them. On a house I can at least build out multiple rooms and ideas.
3. Garden. I can put items out in my garden for further decorating and remodel the exterior. Which you can't do in an apartment.

Honestly, I would consider moving to an apartment if they came up with a much larger one with a nice view and outdoor ability, but as it is, my house by the lake is the best thing ever.

[Mimilu]

Personally, houses.

They just have more space and utility.

[Lissandra]

Personally, houses.

They just have more space and utility.

I've seen a few smalls (not all of them) where the entire bottom floor is walled off, and the top decorated portion is poorly done; didn't use most of the item limit, etc. I can tell because of how little items they have out. They don't use the garden outside either so it makes me scratch my head and wonder why they don't just settle with a apartment instead.

[Elladie]

I had a personal house but surrendered it recently and now have apartments for my main and my alts that qualify. I prefer the space to items ratio in an apartment (I like clutter) tho I wouldn't complain about having more items. Don't miss the garden either to my surprise but I can garden at the FC house if I want to (I don't). I wouldn't complain if they made apartments bigger tho. Certainly wouldn't complain if they added more instanced housing with more variety, be happy to throw my gil at that

[ERMITANYO]

I have a house but if SE upgrades apartments to a better form of instanced housing having massive vertical and horizontal apartment space with a larger indoor gardening capability and a scenic balcony following day and night cycle and weather conditions, as well as a more aesthetically pleasing apartment building and sorroundings, plus the current apartment feature that renders it safe from auto demolition, i will give up my house.

[Mimilu]

I've seen a few smalls (not all of them) where the entire bottom floor is walled off, and the top decorated portion is poorly done; didn't use most of the item limit, etc. I can tell because of how little items they have out. They don't use the garden outside either so it makes me scratch my head and wonder why they don't just settle with a apartment instead.

Yeah. =w=
Some people just want houses to brag (I've seen a few empty private mansions with only summoning bells inside).
Others may want to do more things with their house but can't afford it or don't have any idea/direction on what to do.
It's just the option of having more space and utility (plus the street cred) makes it more appealing.

[Bobkitty]

There are things I like and dislike about them both:

Apartments
+ Affordable
+ Availability
+ Permanent; you don't have to keep paying/having to login just to retain it
+ Marketboard + Aetheryte right outside your door (not all houses have that convenience, spots that do are usually more pricey/difficult to obtain)


- Cannot be shared
- Only comes in one size, but there is still a lot you can do if not for...
- 100 Furnishing slots
- Scrolling through the list everytime to enter a friend's apartment can be a pain
- No gardening? (I'm not certain about this as I don't do any gardening either way)
- Lack of a neighborhood feeling, apartments don't get a whole lot of visitors either.

Houses
+ Comes in three different sizes
+ Every plot has a unique scenery
+ You have a garden for gardeny things?
+ You can decorate/customise the exterior as you see fit
+ Shareable
+ Depending on whose in your ward, it can feel like living in a neighborhood


- Some housing spots are a bit far from the marketboard
- Ugly neighbors can obliterate your landscape
- Non-refundable (unless using the demolition timer)
- Limited number of houses:
-- Demolition timer; because of the issue above, you have to login at least once every 45 days which means you're paying rent via subscription.
-- Lack of a permanent solution
-- Placard clicking game

[MOZZYSTAR]

Personally, I prefer apartments.
- If I can't log in for X amount of days or months, I don't have to worry about losing it
- And thus, I don't have to ever worry about losing my housing items
- Because it's there indefinitely, I don't have to waste IRL money or stress if I can't afford sub just to keep it either, which is nice
- It's pretty quick and easy to check out other players' apartments in your own ward
- I discovered with my original houses that I really didn't use both floors, I mainly used one, so the single floor (with lofts) works for me just fine.
- I like the simple square shape without any permanent stairs because my space is 100% customisable, whereas I found cottages and mediums a little awkward in shapes sometimes, especially with their staircases.

Drawbacks
- No outdoor space (i.e. no garden or ability to use outside furnishings)
- Too few item slots (with my house, I could block off the bottom floor if I wanted and use all 200 on the top floor)
- No variation in size
- Don't really get a neighboury feel. I never see my fellow flatmates.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

As the title asks! Which do you prefer? Why?

Both have their appeals for me.

Apartments are the safe bet since you never have to worry about losing them due to inactivity. A apartment is also bigger than the first floor of a small house but obviously doesn't have a basement. Still that bigger upper space leaves more freedom to work with... until you realize apartments have only half the allowed item count that a small house does. 100 items is prohibitively low and I hope SE ups that to 150 or even 200 in the not too distant future.

Houses are the prestige option. Because of the scarcity of available houses on most servers, actually nabbing one is a pretty big feather in your cap. It also gives you an exterior and yard to decorate which in turn lets you access crossbreeding via gardening. The downside to owning a house is that long stretches of being unsubbed can not only cost you the house, but all the furnishings as well if you can't get resubbed in time.

If houses never had to fear demolition, they'd be my pick hands down. But since they do have to fear such, apartments have a certain appeal and while I do have a house, I also have an apartment just in case something happens and I can't keep my sub going.