Take a pick from this pretty pair

CITY or country? Opting for one location or another for a family sized four-bed Cork semi-d can see a difference of nearly €60,000, depending on choice.

A smart, four-bedroomed semi at 43 Foxwood, on a corner site up in the heights of increasingly suburbanised Rochestown, east of Douglas, carries a price guide of €290,000 with Cohalan Downing.

Also for sale with the same agents is another very good hill-topping semi at 22, The View, in Priory Court, Watergrasshill, starting at €230,000.

The latter has a dining room done in what was a garage and is a good conversion job, with proper pitched roof.

The ground level also has two interconnecting reception rooms, each with wood floors, plus separate kitchen with beech units and utility, and the hall has a guest loo off.

While it is further out from the city, it has swift access via the main N8, and the Watergrasshill by-pass and other road upgrades will shorten the journey even more.

Both no 22 in Watergrasshill and no 43 in Foxwood Rochestown have four bedrooms, with the smallest definitely a single; each has a shower in the en suite and a bath in the family bathroom.

Both houses are built within the last five years. Foxwood is an O’Brien and O’Flynn constructed home, while Watergrasshill was built by McInerneys. Both have gas central heating and double glazing.