What to buy?

Buy the perfect house, it will make your life much easier in the future. There will be many temptations to buy a less than perfect house for the savings of some money. Take my word for it, remodels take more time and money that you initially plan for. You cannot move a busy street or noisy overpass. You will have to heavily incentivise a future buyer to buy your castle. Also, is time not money? Do you enjoy or just tolerate weekends at Home Depot? Do you like the beach, the mountains, Disneyland or Yosemite? Does you boss like you rested on Monday's and most importantly, what does your significant other really think?