How do you rate a place?

I too like to have an open view. Especially if I am on vacation. I like to see the view of the city or the ocean, wherever I am staying. I would rather walk up stairs than be blocked.

i know just what you mean. for years we lived in an apartment complex where our bedroom windows opened onto the back side of another apartment complex so if your shades were up on either side you knew what others were doing and you felt so closed in. we moved here to El dorado gardens and we have a patio enclosed where we can raise plants and outside are large lawns greenall year with huge trees of all kinds and flowering bushes everywhere and also periannual flowers along the walks. you can hear birds singing and smell freshly mowed grass and it still does not cost much more than where we were before and we are still in town. if I want to go to the store it only costs me fifty cents to hop on the bus and in five minutes I am in Larwin Square with all its shops.