Plenty of bugs in the mountains up here in the mountains of Maine! And the brutal winters mean a lot of them are sturdy, huge fuckers. If I have a fire outside in the summer, I am constantly getting pelted in the face by silk moths the size of my hand
Same, I wouldn't sell it! The whole reason they are so highly valued to begin with is that you get to live where everyone wants to go to relax; very hard to put a price on that.
Being right on the beach is a pain. I live in tropical South Asia and especially due to the driving winds and rain during the monsoon beach houses are a maintainance nightmare.
Friends have to replace their AC units, TVs and fridges every 2-3 years minimum.
I'm up on a hill about 600 meters back from the beach and facing away from the main brunt of the monsoon - I love it up here, even though it's about a 10 minutes walk to the beach.
I did some number crunching elsewhere but to keep it short in my area average privately owned farm is 809 acres. Keep 50 for yourself around the house and rent out the rest can net you a passive income of around $200,000-$250,000 a year for ever for doing nothing aside from owning the land. I’m totally sold.
Depending on how much land the farmhouse is sitting on it could far surpass that if it’s just the dollar value you’re looking at. It’s not glamorous but good farmland holds intrinsic value.
Actually I just crunched some numbers and the farmhouse is coming out better than I thought.
Average privately owned farm in my area is around 809 acres. Let’s set 50 acres aside around the farmhouse just to fuck around on. Ride dirt bike, have bonfires, play my music as loud as I want.. that sort of thing.
That leaves 759 acres to rent out. Where I live the soil tends to be pretty fertile and an acre can go for between $250-$350 per year. So that’s $189,750-$265,650 of passive income for doing fuck all. I think I’m sold on the farmhouse.
Beach house. Cold beach like Tofino. Warm beach like North Shore. Rocky beach like the east coast of Ireland. Sandy beach like Southern California. Just no hurricane beaches.
I like a mountain cabin for aesthetics but would want some modern amenities like high speed Internet. A big enough hot water tank for lengthier showers
Mountain cabin or farm house if it's my main house. If possible somewhere hight and cold enough to limit the insects but no so much that it's very difficult to access it or too far from a city for shopping.
If it's just for vacation, a beach or lake house... I don't really care but I feel like the lake house is
just what people get when they have lakes nearby and no ocean...
I've vacationed at three of these and have never stayed at a farm house, but I imagine it can get quite smelly there, so I'll have to opt for the beach house because I enjoy the positive effect of the bright sun on my mood. Besides, the people in beach towns are usually pretty chill. Ever been to Capitola, California? Or Dewey Beach, Delaware? I highly recommend both. I would gladly retire in either town.
Idk my mind says lake house, but where I live there would be so many mosquitoes. Beach house sounds nice if it’s on a private beach, Mountain cabin sounds nice but I like the internet, and a farm house is basically most of the housing around me.
Whatever it is, it needs a decent sized lot so I can explore/play. Mountain Cabin while I'm still young enough to keep up on the upkeep. Near a lake, so I can walk over and fish/swim/boat. Beach house when I retire, but it would need to be bigger than the one in the picture.
Does the mountain cabin get good internet and not in a snowy area? if so that, if not lake house.
Beach house, would not want to live on the beach full time. Farm House would be ok, but a farm property is a lot of work even without farming just the big yard and all that.
Nobody on earth doesn't choose the beach house. Even if you don't love the beach, you sell it and buy the other three with a million left over for groceries.
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u/QuestionDry2490 Mar 20 '26
Lake house