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Would you rather live in a house with animals or live in a barn without any animals?

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Would you rather live in a house with a bunch of animals or live in a typical barn without any animals?

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I have seen some really nice living quarters in typical barns so I will say I would rather live in a barn without animals.

I can live in a pretty primitive environment if I had to.

Most typical barns have a loft area for storing hay.

It would be easy to just set up a bed or even sleep on the floor.

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I'm presuming you mean barn and farm animals. I have three cats and a dog lol. But considering how much i hate mucking and noise I'd go with barn no animals. You can do much over time to insulate a barn into a home but cleaning chicken poop off my kitchen counter sounds like a nightmare

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I'd rather live in a house with animals. I had a barn, but it blew down. I live in a 500 sq/ft house with 2 dogs, pretty perfect if you ask me :)

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I'm going barn no animals. I'm not at all an animal person, happily pet-free over here. And yes, barns can get insulated and have lots of space to work with, talk about an open floorplan!

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House with animals. A dividing wall in between creates essentially, an attached barn. That means I can still keep the animal noises, mess, & smells to a minimum in the human side, while giving me easy access, via a door in that wall, to take care of them. That could be an incredible boon, in inclement weather, &/or when my body isn't being cooperative. It's also how many of our ancestors used to live, for many reasons, including those I mentioned, and the added heating the animals bring to the party, in the winter. This is actually something I've considered, for a time later in my life, if I have to manage living without my hubby, but am not ready to even think about giving up my critters. That said, my livestock are primarily small quantities of small critters - small breed goats, small breed sheep, chickens, and ducks. Nothing so pervasively... fragrant... as cattle, hogs, or equines.

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Depends on the barn. But if it is the typical barn in this climate then I will answer house. Most of the barns I know are to drafty and heating them enough to stay comfortable would be huge work. Now if I can pick one of my customers barns up near the base of the mountain it is easy the barn even if I was in the barn without living in one of the 2 help apartments already in the barn. Very tight heated by an artesian well and well insulated.

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I’d like to live in a house with animals. At the very least, a few spiders, myself, and a water bear.

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I do live in a house with a lot of animals.

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House with animals

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I think I'll take a loophole on this one: I'm willing to live with several spiders. So I'm going with house and animals.
If spiders don't count, then give me the barn, no animals.
We're pet-free, too; any future animals we plan to keep outside.

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Would you rather live in a house with a bunch of animals or live in a typical barn without any animals?

House with animals, less drafty!

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Barn without animals. My little dog, Doobie ,tracks in so much in my house now, and having more inside, forget it, too many feet to brush and too many baths for me to give.

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