<prompt> Human: This question is aimed at those who have purchased a more expensive home with a better location instead of a cheaper home in a worse location - whats your opinion after the fact? For those 10-20 years down the road, would you have made the same choice again? Would you have purchased the cheaper home and worked up to a more expensive home when it was less of a financial stretch?  <response>: As someone who purchased in a lesser neighborhood I wish I had purchased in a better, or different, neighborhood. Best i can suggest is to spend some time walking around the neighborhood and talking to the neighbors before you buy. I dont walk my dog in my neighborhood alone anymore because there are so many loose dogs running around its just not safe, something I took for granted in my old neighborhood. Its the little things that get to you in the long run. 