What Is Your Preferred View (apartment, low crime, house)

[TexasRoadkill]

If you could afford to live in a house with a "view", what would you want the view to be?

• Mountains
• Lake
• River
• Ocean
• Desert
• Forest
• Prairie
• Valley
• Tall Buildings
• Other

[Heel82]

Ocean view during a storm is incomparable.

[1200RT]

Mountains by a large margin.

Although I do like a beach view and enjoy the desert landscape.

[Prickly Pear]

Originally Posted by Heel82

Ocean view during a storm is incomparable.

I once was in a skyscraper on the Miami coastline and I watched a water sprite form and do it’s thing. It was really cool to see especially up high.

I can’t vote for both forest and mountain so I don’t know how I can vote on this poll. Since mountain is separate are we gonna assume it’s a naked mountain like the desert mountains around Phoenix? But then desert is also it’s own category…

[FL_Expert]

Ocean because it’s always changing to some degree. Mountains + Ocean is ideal, but a rarity in the US.

[JustMike77]

As an appraiser, I find that people really love an ocean view. Funny thing is that for about half the day, their view is pitch black.

[atadytic19]

I voted forest but my choice would have been valley views. Looking down into valleys, especially at this time of year is breath-taking.

I didn't choose mountain because I assumed you meant being in a valley looking up at the mountain view, but I prefer the reverse- being up in the mountains/hills looking down in the valleys. Throw in some ocean and I am sold.

[elchevere]

I am going to vote “other”, only because I prefer a water view—specifically, ocean and/or bay. Bay was not an option and I did not want to pigeonhole myself by just selecting ocean.

[Johnhw2]

I have not interest in water view if hurricanes are a risk or mountains if they are too high and get too much cold and snow. I prefer a humid climate as that means water is probably plentiful or not in short supply with a half component of competence by local gov. So desert is off for me

I like a low crime location near day to day amenities I need to access, the view is a low consideration

[achtung baby]

Ocean/body of water. (Preferably non-touristy though.)

Having lived on the West Coast I could also appreciate the majestic mountains as the backdrop.

Tall buildings don’t interest me. I hated it actually especially you could see other people working/living in their building. Rear Window it wasn’t.

My husband’s previous apartment in NYC was near Financial District and Tribeca, its rooftop was massive with close-up Brooklyn Bridge view (absolutely beautiful at night.) but one side was the office building across the street.-I can’t tell you how awkward it was seeing guys picking their nose while eating their microwave dinner at the office thinking no one could see them.