Given the choice, which would you accept?

[Arimeh]

Yeah, but I'm a bit of a...I guess some would say "snobby" person. I myself look at houses as I drive past and think either "gee, they must be well off" or "yuck, they must be derros". I know, that's terrible of me. But I wouldn't want someone to drive past my home and think we were derros IYKWIM...I think I should get over myself!

Hmm well I think I'd rather protect my family and make sure we were reasonably comfortable than worry about what people thought of my house when they drove past. We don't currently live in a good area (cheapest suburb on the Sunshine Coast) and my house looks like crap from the outside - but I'm not going to rent somewhere or buy out of my budget just so people don't think I'm a derro. If people already have those distinctions between people in their heads - well they're not really someone I would be friends with and care about their opinions!

[danniellabella]

Hmm well I think I'd rather protect my family and make sure we were reasonably comfortable than worry about what people thought of my house when they drove past. We don't currently live in a good area (cheapest suburb on the Sunshine Coast) and my house looks like crap from the outside - but I'm not going to rent somewhere or buy out of my budget just so people don't think I'm a derro. If people already have those distinctions between people in their heads - well they're not really someone I would be friends with and care about their opinions!

That's a good point...
Please don't think less of me for my way of thinking...I'm getting over thinking that way, unfortunately old ways of thinking are hard to break.

[AnyDream]

Well I have a lovely home that is dog ugly from the front. I'm very happy here. Friends love my house as well - it has a really nice 'feeling' to it is the only way I can explain it. So I suggest you choose the house that 'feels' the best to you when you're standing right in the middle of it.