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BEST THINGS ABOUT LIVING THERE ...

  1. The vast living space and cool architecture
  2. Entertaining cool visitors
  3. The multi-tv/stereo arrangement
  4. The BarnNet
  5. Being able to make any modifications to the house that we wanted
  6. The shared dinner plan
  7. The Tower
  8. Having a volleyball court right in the back yard
  9. The remote location
  10. The movie series
Runners up:

The Barn-B-Qs, flooding the kitchen floor and not having to clean it up, the visiting deer, Beejball, Beer and Food and Fire, the climbing rope, the Marvelous Fubbcah, the huge restaurant-style stove, mowing the lawn with only human power.

WORST THINGS ABOUT LIVING THERE ...

  1. The leaky roof
  2. The driveway
  3. The landlords, and their inability to get anything done
  4. The flying ants in the Bug Room
  5. The poor insulation
  6. Squirrels eating holes in trash and walls, running around, and dying in the ceiling
  7. The mess
  8. The mice eating food and leaving droppings
  9. The spiders everywhere
  10. The flooding basement
Runners up:

The unsafe/difficult to use woodstove; the wasps in the Tower; the bad phone lines; hauling wood; the small water heater; the lack of pizza delivery; the unreliable power system, with its fluctuations and non-working lights; and mowing the lawn with only human power.