My house

For most of my life I've lived in the city in a Northeast Philadelphia row house. Having grown up in one smaller than the one I eventually bought, I felt reasonably comfortable, until my wife and I had our second child. We recently moved from the city to a nearby suburb into a single house. Though we've been here but a short time, I already appreciate the significant differences between my old city row house …

…the long and dreary winter. As for recreational land, this house sits on a half acre of it. The house sits fifty feet from a lightly traveled road, and in the rear yard already are a pool, swings, sandbox and toys enough for a daycare center. Though our city row house was cozy for me and my wife before the birth of our children, our suburban home offers a far more spacious and child-friendly environment.