We decided to go with a vintage home. It's brick, and old, and I love it. However, it's not without its problems, and there are a lot of times that I've wistfully pined for a condo. With a condo you're likely to get everything new, including the floors. Vintage hardwood is beautiful, but the creaks have woken our kid on more than one occasion. A new condo means the risk of your future child licking lead-painted walls (don't snicker, they will do it because kids are weird) is significantly lower, and a condo offers as low-maintenance yard work as you can get.
Yet, condos have their own problems. A simple flight, or two, of stairs may seem like nothing now, but when you're trying to haul groceries, a 25-pound baby, a stroller, and any remaining ounce of sanity, those steps will start to feel like a huge burden. Of course, you could choose to live on the ground floor, but then you're running the risk of having an upstairs neighbor who refuses to stop practicing their basketball dribbling just because your baby needs to nap.
