[Nevinmann]

Please tell me if you were trained in use of Kepner Tregoe process. They were two guys from Princeton that I learned from in the 70's, also in NJ.
To answer your question, the most important aspect I think is privacy, regardless of what things you want the house to give you. We live in a villa, which are most private and lowest to maintain. We have a friend whose very nice designer house backed up to another house. The owner of the other house died and her fifty-something cigarette smoking kids moved into the house. They were on their lanai all the time smoking, talking, playing music, and drinking. Our friend's planting screen did not mitigate the annoyance and her own lanai became unusable. She ended up moving after four years.