Looking at listings is my wife’s hobby. I couldn’t care less about kitchen cabinets or if stuff needs updating. How big is the garage, does the garage have heat AND 220, is the basement dry? Everything else is fluff.
First question I asked when we’d go to an open house while looking to move was “Is there an HOA?” If the answer was yes, that was the end of the visit.
When I bicycled to work. I lived on the east side of the valley and the job was on the west side. The start of the commute was always downhill, though.
I call it Tetris-ing. We got good at when we started out married life with a 1975 Honda Civic Hatchback.