This house is a dream come true. The setting is quiet and secluded from the street, so the expansive windows only afford views of trees and a little bit of lake, no neighboring houses or traffic (not that there was much on the small residential street anyway). There’s a bike path and lake beach park with a playground a 5 minute walk away. When picking listings, our group was on the fence about staying somewhere more generic with the city right outside the doorstep vs this place. Glad we made the right choice because we now have memories of this amazing house and the remote location was a non-issue. Driving into downtown was quick and convenient, never encountered any traffic. However, the house is like a huge sigh of relief when you pull up to it after a day of sightseeing in the city, so it doesn’t exactly encourage leaving to go out again. We finally wised up our last night and deliberately stayed out to have dinner out instead of eating delivery or takeout around the kitchen island and dinner table again, as fun as those times were. The openness of the space does lend itself well to our other intended purpose which was to spend quality time with far-flung family.