What's the most inconvenient thing about the place where you now live? Whether the home or the location of the home, whichever you think is the most inconvenient.
We love our house, but the floorplan isn't for old people. All the bedrooms and 2 full baths are upstairs, which was never an issue when we were young. There is only a half-bath "powder room" downstairs. So if we become disabled to the point where we can no longer navigate the staircase we will have to install one of those stair-climber chairs or something. I'd convert the den or formal living room into a bedroom if necessary, but there'd still be no way to bathe downstairs.
Our house is more than 120 years old and, while it's in reasonably good shape, it needs maintenance that I can't do anymore, particularly the exterior of the upper floors, so we have to hire people for stuff or let it go undone. I have an aluminum ladder large enough to reach the roof but I can't raise that ladder anymore. When I first moved here, I could carry and raise it to the upper floors but, now, I can carry it to the house easily enough but I can't raise it up. Plus, our back porch has a shingle roof that collects all the snow coming off the larger metal roof, and I don't feel steady on the roof in the winter shoveling snow anymore.
Even though we will only be renting this house we are moving to, we will be doing many different things to help keep it up for our sakes as well as his niece who owns it. Not sure what the inconveniences will be ,but hoping to adapt since the rent is way much cheaper. As for here in our apartment complex, only two things, hate the way cabinets are made, and the small odd shaped living room. i say hate, but both are a bid inconvenience. as for here in our apartment area
House: . Lack of kitchen counter space Location: . Heavy automobile and pedestrian traffic on the street. But that activity also helps to make it one of the safest locations in town, so I'll take it.
This house lacks insulation. The location is a minor inconvenience (I'm 8 miles from shopping & restaurants versus the less-than-1-mile I had before), but you cannot be rural and suburban all at once.
The bad thing about this house we bought in February when we moved from AZ to PA was the stairs. We wanted a ranch style home like we had in AZ with all rooms on one level, but our house sold so quickly (27 hours) in AZ that we had nothing to choose from in the area we wanted to be in in PA. We had to settle for a tri-level house. Thank God we are both healthy and still able to navigate the stairs but I'm sure there'll come a day when we'll have to do something different. Also, this house had not been updated since it was built in 1969. The kitchen was awful and so was the main bathroom upstairs. The family room had the original orange carpet and paneled walls. We spent a lot of money having all these rooms renovated over the summer but it looks so nice now. It was dark and dingy inside and out. We had the front of the house redone with new white painted brick, new windows, new front door, and new landscaping put in. Those were the most inconvenient things about this house but we're making it more homey all the time
Too rural,very small town. I moved here for those things when we had equine and I had hopes of organic nursery. Serious injury put a wrench in both of those, Jake broke his back. Now we are too old to start over.
As you've read in other threads I've done about where we live, there are more than just one inconvenience (problems), but to pick one is our kitchen space. And, like other apartments we've lived in, both before we were buying our last house and after we sold it...........neighbors that have very little-to-no respect (quiet) for people that live around them. Some came from living in a house and think they can act the same way they did when they lived in a house.
Of course, we have the cold and snow to deal with, and that is getting more difficult as we age. The biggest inconvenience aside from the weather is that so many things don't ship here or are too expensive to ship. Tractor attachments, electronics, and anything heavy or bulky usually doesn't ship here by conventional means. I tried to order a new laptop, but couldn't find any that I wanted that would ship to Alaska, and the ones available locally are either not adequate or too expensive. I might pick one up while travelling, or just forego the entire thing.
Combining difficulties in shipping stuff with a limited supply of stuff locally could be a big problem. I have to drive more than sixty miles each way if I want to shop for anything other than groceries in-house, but I can easily order that stuff online so I rarely shop in Bangor even when I do have a reason to drive there. Pretty much the only place I'll stop at is Petco or Petsmart because I can buy single cans there, whereas I have to buy whole cases online.
Everything is up and downhill. Dave has to get the mail if it rains of snows so I don't slip with my cane. And the siding is cedar. A woodpecker ocasionally checks for bugs. And the deer keep pooping on the grass and eating my fruit trees! Fortunately it has a downstairs room and 3/4 bath in case we need to live downstairs permanently. But it is a very big house to heat with the upper floor. But as I have said, I can always live in my tiny house barnhouse eventually. Just have to kill Dave off first. What was the question?