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.

[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.

[SoleilAlphi]

apartments because they don't have an auto-demolition timer

[Tlamila]

For myself, I'm happy to stick with my apartment. No fight over housing and no demolition, since I've always played on and off. And back when I bought it (sadly now no more) I had a couple of friends all with apartments in the same corridor and it was fun to visit each other.
But estethically houses are certainly a lot nicer, there's only so much space to customize an apartment plus of course no garden and outside looks.

[Merrnryn]

I think I would prefer apartments if they had a few things, windows you could see in and out of (like the pendants in the 1st) a choice of small, med, large, apartments, with a balcony or without a balcony. Each choice aside basic of course costing 50k-200k more per option. Also with the increase in size gardening plot for balconies, item limit upgrades etc.

[Celestene]

House, outdoors and more room. And literally love the yard/outdoors that you can decorate. If apts had that, it might even be comperable. (sp? Idk English is not the first language.)

[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.