Re: How important is space?
 

What NO house and a big yard?
That's a bit extreme, even for me:p

The sense of claustrophobia in some houses like that just cripples me.

Were the luxury is in sitting in a hot tub with the neighbours kids gawping at you defeats me. I am also a bit confused by the acceptance of side windows on the houses in these situations. I would have thought you would avoid windows on the side that look straight into your neighbours' kitchen/diner, but they seem to do this a lot.

I also saw a house on MLS yesterday that had a beautiful clawfoot bath in front of a window that looked right at their neighbours' window across the street:eek:
Who wants to look at their neighbours while they are in the bath?:confused:

And I know without asking that any neighbour of mine would be bricking up that window if they saw me sitting there looking at them:eek:.

In Canada we rent on a large acreage, but it is mostly trees, a pond or two and just some mowing of grass.

Our neighbours are closer than I might have thought considering the acreage size and that is fine because it is still breathable distance and we cannot actually see them.
Complete isolation is not great for everyone.

Re: How important is space?
 

Has to be 10 feet, so you must have bloody long arms ???

Re: How important is space?
 

We initially bought the biggest house we could possibly afford that we sort of liked - we moved at boom time and houses were flying, so we had to just take what we could get. It backed onto green space, but there was an even bigger house opposite, if you went out on the deck then you could chat with the neighbours, there seemed to be no privacy - washing up in the kitchen, you could chat to neighbours through the window while they were washing up. a year later we moved to a smaller. older house on a bigger lot. There is a back lane dividing the houses, there are trees, we overlook green space, there is space between the houses. I would still like a small acreage.