Size matters

One, get your mind out of the gutter. No personal details here.
Two, apparently it is a posting kind of day for me.

Three, the purpose of the post. It comes down to decisions and choices. With lots of small things to choose or decide, I can happily make a list and check items off as they are addressed. Right now I feel like I have too many big choices to make.

Living options (hopefully both options)
1. Smallish 2 bedroom lower level of duplex. Own driveway, patio, garden space, and fireplace (with a stack of wood outside!). Also a little musty, in unit washer and dryer are small size, built into a hill so only small windows on the sides, but a large window looking out one side. ~6 miles to work so could bike, but likely wouldn't. Therefore I wouldn't be saving myself from my car. Also a little strange because I would be splitting bills with the upstairs people.

2. Top floor of a duplex with the kitchen, living space, screened in porch and outdoor porch overlooking a lake. Yup. A lake. 2 bedrooms on the back/street side of building. Bathroom recently redone. Full-sized washer dryer in bathroom closet. All utilities are natural gas. Um. I guess the downside is that currently a few cabinet doors are not attached.

Both are currently empty. The first one they wanted me to sign a lease ASAP, but I am pretty sure I have not fully agreed to that. I will feel a little bad if I don't end up there. But it's not my problem. I really want that second one...

In the long run I won't likely save money by moving. The cost of moving will probably cancel out the spacing out of car-related costs. I will save time. Probably about an hour of my time every day and also the ability to run into work to do little things on the weekend without feeling like I am losing my day. This will be really convenient to keep my research going.