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[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Adder

Transit access, sidewalks, stuff you can walk and/or bike to...

More to the point, two things I like more than I realized when we bought our house are the heated floor in bathroom and out main-level living room space that doesn't have a tv. Granted, we're all walking around with a screen in our pocket, and those get used a lot, but having space to socialize that doesn't have to have a tv on all the time is nice.

While house shopping, "where would we watch tv" was a factor among the small, older houses of South Minneapolis, and it's still a factor I'd consider, but the fancy home theaters prevalent in the McMansion of the '90s no longer hold up as a concept to me. How high quality is your streaming anyway?

Otherwise I'm much more in the experience not things camp. We're looking at redoing our 1940's kitchen and had a guy in from a contractor who was really excited to talk to me about the Thermador appliances they like to install. As if wanting an updated and more functional kitchen was about impressing douchebags who like to spend twice as much as necessary on gear (insert sarcastic crack about Flower's fancy bikes here).

It's kind of nice to have a TV-free great space, though we have 5 other ones stashed away.