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Originally Posted by 81MC
Condos are great if you’re okay with severely restricting your hobbies. Want to play an instrument? Nope. Want to get into wood working? Nope. Fixing up motorbikes? Not a chance. Gardening? Maybe if there’s an open spot at a community garden. And with a family? Where’s the nearest park, and what are your kids experienced going there? Stepping over human #### and crossing roadways just to throw a ball around? Yeah, no #### people want single family homes.
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The last condo i lived in actually had a wood working room and garden plots you could reserve. I wasn't into these things, but the people who were seemed to really enjoy having other people also into the hobbies to chat with.
I did really like the communal gym. Having use of a relatively large gym without having to go outside was great. Obviously I would have preferred a house with a large private gym, but would rather share a gym than commute an extra 1.5 hours a day. If I was single without children, I'd be all over the condo life. I actually liked having people within close quarters, but not actually in my space, too.
Having work a 5 minute skytrain ride away was fantastic too.
Everyone is different, but the convenience of being close to where I need and want to be, vastly outweighs the negatives of not having more space.