What can you sacrifice ?

Say if you have a budget and allows you to get this house in your dream suburb, which one of these you could be fine to sacrify for not having...

 

I can make any sacrifices, as long as the price is RIGHT!

 

Bedrooms without a window is a study

 

Couldn't have any rooms without a window - ever.
But would look at
smaller backyard (less mowing)
fewer bathrooms (less cleaning)
no car park - maybe
small kitchen - possible
Everything else is no go.
Depends on size of development.

 

sacrify
Is that even a word?

 

Dev block because it temporary

 

I don't like any of those options...

 

And yeah - I went dev block.

It may never be developed! And if so then 24 months of nuisance value.

 

If worse came to worse and I had to give something up - smaller block. I've lived on a large block in Glen Waverley during my 20s with my folks (before children) and honestly I really didn't make much use out of it. Good for development etc. but if we are talking PPOR here, I'd say it's useless.

Post-Children, well, hard to say, we do make good use of our current backyard with two boys - sports and all, but even then if we were to really play seriously it would need to be on a large park anyway!

I can see myself seriously living with the Mrs. say in Surrey Hills on a 250m2 block and a small 2 bedder or 3 bedder town house when I reach retirement age.

 

Interesting. Seems like nobody likes living next to highway. And people don't seem to mind living next to a development block....

 

Picked the following as they were factors helping us get our current PPOR:

Small block: subdivided half-block with hardly any grass to mow. Most of the outdoor area is in a private courtyard that the house wraps around, so we actually use it.
Small kitchen: because we can (and soon will) renovate it to a bigger, more modern kitchen.
Next to development: old house next door was being demolished when we bought. New house was constructed very quickly and quietly and has boosted the street's average value.

Would not sacrifice proximity to highway/main road: the noise and pollution is a huge detriment on quality of life. Our first place was next to Pacific Highway and every plant we tried to grow on our balcony died very quickly. The noise meant we had to install expensive secondary glazing which fixed noise at the expense of making the air inside the apartment stale.

 

Smaller block would be ok
Next to deve block dependent on size of development

 

Does it mean even if the kitchen room size is small, you're okay with it?

 

It wouldn't be ideal, but we would be okay with it. Our prior PPOR had a small enclosed kitchen (4 walls + door) with no scope for embiggening, but it was functional and we managed.

Our current one is only bordered on 2.5 walls and is part of an open/multifunction space, so we are taking some room from the adjacent "formal dining" area (which we never use for dining) and planning a bigger kitchen with adjoined breakfast table.

Current kitchen CAD: (there's about 6m of room to the right of the kitchen)

 

My thoughts too

 

A windowless study created simply 'cause whoever drew up the plan could not think of any other use for that space...and labelled it "study"

 

Also if buying in secondary locations ie highway, main road you should be buying at discount perhaps 10-20% lower and of course will also impact when selling

 

if l had to choose prob the no nearby train station.

 

I'm sure @datto will be able to find something to sacrifice at @fullylucky's temple....but then again.

 

I chose train station purely because we both drive 5mins to work. We have a train station being built 400m from us, and we still wont use it when complete. Its good for resale though.
Would prefer a backyard so we can keep the swing sets, jungle gyms etc for the kids.
Dev blocks would be a PITA, especially if they take longer than planned.