Mountain house with a hot tub. Hands down. Assuming I am the one purchasing the property with my own money, of course.
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Beach House: The beach gets boring after a while. Beachfront property cost 2-3 times more than comparable property.
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House with a pool: Pools get crazy boring after a while. It’s just a hole in the ground with water in it. A house with a pool is cheaper than a beach house so assuming you have the same amount of money you get way more house for the same money. Better than a beach house, but a pool, specifically an in-ground pool is a permanent commitment. I have a pool. Nobody uses it. I just maintain it.
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Mountain house with a hot tub: Have you been to the mountains? Holy crap. It’s BEAUTIFUL. Also, just like the house with a pool, you can afford waaay more house than some dinky beachfront house for the same money. Also, when you get bored with the hot tub, just tear it out and put in a nice fire pit.
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I don’t want a pool but of those choices I’ll take the pool. Don’t want to live in the middle of nowhere in the mountains, and I love the beach but the beach keeps shrinking, soon enough that’s not a house on the beach. Houses with pools all over here, it’s common enough so I guess insurable.
Mountain house, more things to do(gardens etc) and of course relax.
I want to live in a walkable, urban, area, so probably the beach house. Maybe down by Coney Island.
Is the house with a pool in a swamp, or possibly a bog?
Beach! Walk in that sand. Hear those waves. Plop your drink down anywhere and it’ll stand up. Take a dip. Enjoy as much as possible until humanity ruins every drop.
Most drinks will stand up anywhere you put them
Ha, attend enough bands in lots of local bars. I can assure you, lots of drinks end up on the floor. Plopping one on the beach is way better.
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Whichever is easiest to get groceries to.
I really wanted a cottage on an island in a lake in Ontario or Finland but getting food and stuff there is such a pain.
Mountain House if solar/wind are feasible and I have sufficient clearing to grow my own food.
Otherwise, regular house.
I like mountains, hiking, biking, and I want to become self-sufficient where possible. And my wife wants cows and chickens, I don’t think they would do well on a beach, especially when sea levels start noticeably rising.
In the real world I’d take the mountain house. In a fantasy world where rising sea levels aren’t a thing to worry about I’d take the beach house.
I like mountains fine but the sea calms my soul like nothing else.
the sea calms my soul
As long as you don’t look under the surface.
Oceans be scary. (but still great, that’s why I joined the navy once)
In your lifetime, rising sea levels won’t be an issue. In your kids lifetime is a different story, but we still got another 50+ years before sea levels will rise to a significant degree.
Is that true? I regularly see on the news that the climate changes faster than the scientists expected and that they have to adjust their models.
No, it’s not true. Rising sea levels are causing an increase in storms and danger which have already started taking out beach property.
Im with the fedditor who said well only if hypothetical as likely all options are to expensive. Thing is that I would take the beach house as top except for sea level rise would put me off. Of course if Im super rich maybe I don’t care about having to buy a new place super soon. Next would be the mountain house but only if for some reason it was close enough to a city to have transit and stuff around, which is unlikely but maybe exists in colorado or something (same would apply to the beach house but I think its much more likely to have that in beach vs moutains). In all reality I would actually prefer the house or condo with a pool as it could likely be located in a nice city with good transit. Honestly I would prefer a great indoor hottub and sauna than the pool.
None of the above in the real world; too much maintenance on any of them.
But in a hypothetical world where I didn’t have to do the work, or pay for it? I’ll take the pool.
A good swim without dealing with tides and whatever trash is floating around trumps the other two options
A home in the mountains. Hot tub optional.
mountain house, immediately
Even without the hot tub but especially with.
Initially, I imagined it’s a cozy cottage in the middle of nowhere, but then I remembered that Switzerland exists. You could totally have some shops only a few tram stops away.
mountain house with hot tub! I hate sand
