Mum has a chest freezer and hates it as she is too short to reach the bottom so if you are vertically challenged it can be an issue Hers also doesnt fit in the hosue and she gets frustrated going in and out the shed so they are upgrading to a french door frridge/freezer now there are only 2 of them living at home and dumping the freezer

we have chest freezer and couldnt live without it, we get half a cow about twice a year and my dad gives us large styrafoam boxes of freshly frozen fish he catches. We can fit roughly half a cow and still have the top 2 baskets free.

when we built we made sure there was room in the laundry to fit a chest freezer in

if you buy or cook in bulk I think its a must have, we couldnt live without it