500k house close to the city/workplace VS 500k distant from the city/workplace

[GODself]

What would you rather?

Lets say you have a 500k budget.



Would you rather buy this:



But you gotta drive 2 hours (1 to go... 1 to return) to work every single day.





OR




Something like this:




But you are close to a big city?
-Lets say you gotta drive 30 minutes to work (15m each direction), every day.

[amikaelmorris]

short commute every time

plus that's a nice classic craftsman style house vs a dumb-ass new texas mcmansion, i'll take the old house every day