Cottage or apartment in the city center

At one time people fled from the countryside to the cities, and now many, on the contrary, strive to arrange their life in a country house. Very few people want to move to a real village with their own farm, but to have a house somewhere in the suburbs is the dream of many people in a picturesque corner.

Life in your home can really be comfortable and beautiful, but all this will be only if your house is in excellent condition and is located on the territory of a cottage village, where there is security, good roads and paths. In addition, you have funds to support at least 1-2 household helpers.

Simply put, a country house will allow you to lead a comfortable life only if you have a constant good income. If the income is small, but you want it?

If you really want to - make up your mind, but then you can really regret it. Many cottages are built according to the principle - people have sold an apartment, or maybe two apartments, and they are building a house. If they approach the project reasonably, then they will calculate everything and compare their capabilities and desires, they will undertake to build a house for which they have enough energy and money. True, only a few are guided by reason - the bulk of people are ruled by pride and vanity, they want a house as much as possible, so that all relatives, neighbors and acquaintances are jealous!

Such people think in the following way - they have money from the sale of apartments, for which they will build a huge box, insert cheap plastic windows and a couple of metal doors, close the roof, and then they will live and gradually decorate - renovating room after room.

I have seen such dreamers at home more than once. The house was built more than a year ago, and there even half of the area is not suitable for life, everywhere there is cement dust, building materials, tools, all kinds of rubbish and wretched furniture damaged by the construction site.

True, they have already made several rooms, pasted wallpaper, laid linoleum or laminate flooring, bought some simple furniture from IKEA, the service life of which in favorable conditions is 5-7 years, and then it will fall apart.

After a few more years, the homeowners will make a few more rooms and begin to cultivate the courtyard, but by that time the rooms made in the first place will already look unsightly, because construction dust is everywhere and workers are constantly scurrying around, moving something, bringing it to mind. remodel.

As a result, arrogant builders will, like a squirrel in a wheel, invest all their efforts and resources in the object of their pride, but they will never build a truly good house.

No matter how hard you try, if you don't have a decent source of income, you will never build a house. Rather, from the outside - from afar, your house will look large and solid, but as soon as you go inside and the guest will be disappointed, it turns out that the house is partially empty, and partially filled with all sorts of rubbish and does not at all give the impression of a luxurious home of a successful person.

In addition to the high construction costs, a house requires a lot of time to maintain. Even if you've won the Jackpot lotto and bought a luxury finished home, there are tons of worries that most homeowners can't handle, and your new luxury home will quickly fall into disrepair.

A large house can only be maintained in two cases:

1) You have a big friendly family, where everyone gets along well with each other and everyone is hardworking in their own way, knows how to do something and does something every day.

2) You have a lot of money, you will hire a gardener and a couple of hardworking housewives, who will be paid a decent salary, and they will appreciate you, making the house sparkle with cleanliness and improvement.

No big friendly and hardworking family, no decent income? You can still build a house, but in addition to the costs of construction, home improvement, time and money for its maintenance, take into account some more points.

The location of the house. There was enough money for a house in a cottage village, where the entire territory is fenced and there is security - life promises to be more or less comfortable. But if the house is built in the private sector, where there are many different houses and shacks, there will be a lot of worries, because all sorts of dubious personalities often live around - alcoholics, guest workers, various dregs of society ...

By no means will you always leave the gates of your house by car and enter, sometimes you have to walk to the nearest store on foot, and besides, you will not always find time to take your children to school. Sometimes you will all go somewhere, and only a dog will guard the house, and local alcoholics really want to profit from something, as a result of which the dog will not stop them, perhaps even they will be taken away for a barbecue.

Do you think this cannot be? Yes, there are a lot of similar situations when they climb into the house and even take a dog!

In general, the security of living in the private sector is much lower than living in an ordinary city apartment.

Now think, what are the advantages of owning a house like this?