Just a word of advice - I moved from a 1960's house to a 1990's house and the build quality is nowhere close to being comparable. The older house was a solid the new house was just thrown up, stud walls chip, board floors etc. Give the upstairs walls a bit of a knock and you'll understand.
THis, with new build houses
- room sizes may be big (since they are often three storey)
- some of the fittings and finishes might be good quality, e.g the built in appliances, door handles etc are good quality..
BUT
- as bewsters and arriba allude to, build quality is poor, very flimsy feel to them.
- plot sizes are often paltry, garden sizes small, often no front garden at all
- new estates seem to be quite transient, lots of poeple moving in and out all the time e.g. little in the way of a settled neighbourly community feel
- new estates are like rabbit warrens, tiny roads, little or no footpaths, little open space, all adds to the feeling of claustraphobia
This is my experience, others may disagree.
As a footnote, this is one of my gripes with modern life. With a combination of three storey houses and tiny plots, housebuilders are now getting say 5 houses on a plot of land where they previously may have got 1. Now either housebuilders are making a shed load of money or land prices have rocketed. Which is it?
