The thing you like about your place

What is the thing you like about your place? What makes it home?

I’ve just moved and I’m loving that I can sit on the roof of an evening, a little music playing and watch the bats fly over, out of the Yarra to wherever bats go.

I live in a HA flat, my main answer to this will always be “I can afford it”. Moved in 4 years ago & still not over the sheer relief that comes with social rent, I’d be struggling even more than I am otherwise.

Similar to you, I also like that among the dawn chorus I can sometimes hear a woodpecker, and that my neighbours are swans and cows (although one day the cows will trample me to death as I walk to the bus stop)

Recently got the place remodelled courtesy my brilliant sister and enjoying some nice extra features like this on the wall

https://i.imgur.com/IeyLZsO.jpg

Social Housing is the best!

My house is a 2 bed semi probably knocked up quite hastily and almost certainly with contempt for the tenants (could imagine the architect thinking of the tenants as something in a petridish) in the post-war population boom era. Lots of awful design flaws like because of the incline my bedroom window is on the same level as next doors side door almost and when there is trouble at night I have a ringside seat (although sometimes this can be funny). The internal walls are hopeless for fixing up anything, they seem to be cheap airbrick that just crumbles when you drill into it.

But I've got a decent sized side garden with a huge elm tree that literally buzzes with life in the summer and a huge monolithic hedge to block out all the widespread twattery. The location is sort of 2 minutes from trouble but 10 minutes from miles upon miles of beautiful greenbelt, very clean air quality where I often see wild deers, some amazing old medieval architecture, weird rural pubs that let you bring your dog in. Once I had a IPSOS Mori pollster on my doorstep who told me the area is a "property hotspot" according to the Times property site and I joked crime you surely meant, but he has a point.

A squirrel family lives in the tree outside my window, so I can glance out most days and see how the sciurine (had to look that up) scene is progressing. Other than that, there's a Turkish shop 10 mins walk away that sells the best hummus I've ever tasted.

That I'll be rid of it in less than three weeks.

The living room has amazing view over Greenwich and East London, it's surrounded by parkland on two sides so you can just stand there and watch people's dogs running around on the heath below. We're on the third floor so level with the tree branches and regularly face to face with squirrels and magpies and parakeets while just sitting on the sofa.

We've got decent wooden flooring in the main room and music sounds amazing as a result, plus it doesn't border the neighbours on any side so you can get away with cranking it. (There's downstairs but we think they're actually deaf).

Friendly neighbours in general, people look out for each other and notice if there's anything amiss. Excellent running routes nearby, easy to get in and out of town. Oh and we've apparently managed to develop a fully stocked cocktail bar over the years.

i don't actually like our house all that much, but there's a spot in the living room right near the sofa where my wife gave birth to our second child and i'm kind of loathe to surrender that patch of ground to anyone else. important personal history happened in that place, i don't want it despoiled by someone else's crap. maybe when we finally move i'll take a circular saw to the carpet and floorboards and chop out that square metre, just like someone digging up a strip of wembley turf

I like my office/study. Great desk, comfortable chair, decent tv, lots of shelves for books and films and bar. We have a finished building on our carport that we've turned into a film and game room and a classroom for my wife's students. Big walk-in pantry is nice. The rest of the house can gtfo -- leaky roof, small rooms, expensive climate control.

We have a view of one of the elevated lines of the métro, and can see pretty well the people riding to and fro. I can watch crowds of people walking by day and night. I never feel lonely here.

Our subdivision went up in the early 70s, when someone thought it would be cool to build a few dozen shed-style mid-century ranch houses without wiping out the dense tree canopy above them ... the down side has been a car, fences, and part of a roof damaged by falling trees, but we still enjoy the feeling of living in the woods.

We're a little too far out to walk to stores or restaurants, but a five-minute drive gets us into the city or out in the countryside.

It's cheap and the roof doesn't leak.

My stuff is here

It's cheap, lets in a lot of sunlight, and is next to a donut shop.

I rarely hang out on them for extended periods of time but i love terraces. I like the ability to wander in and out throughout the day, leaving the doors open, seeing more of the sky.

My apartment is tiny and new (building was built in 2017/2018, we're the first tenants in the suite) and cheap (we live in the poor door "mixed income" part of a large condo building). The one nice thing: view of the north shore mountains and burrard inlet

About six months ago I moved into a shared house and I like pretty much everything about it. Good housemates, rent is very low, neighborhood is fun and walkable, there are a lot of nice shared spaces, and my room is big and sunny and has a balcony and views of water and mountains. And one of the housemates owns a boat and takes us all out on it in the summer. Only downside is I don't have a job this year, and I'm a teacher so I pretty much have to go where the jobs are; if I get hired in a different district for next year I will have to move.