When looking at locations for a new home or a site where you might want to build, you first want to ask yourself what is the condition of the neighborhood. What kind of impression do you get, do you feel safe when walking around, is the area well maintained, is the plant life healthy, the hedges trim and there birds in the trees?
The shape of the site should be regular (although a triangular shape is out of the question) with the land being either flat or slope gently upward from the street. The ideal placement of buildings around the site is for there to be either raised land such as a hill or buildings behind the site, while the site itself should not be on a street corner, but in between other sites so that as you look at the site from the street there is a building to the right. If possible there should also be one to the left as well (rather than an empty plot), but this building must not be higher than the right hand building. Likewise any building across the street should be lower or of the same height as the left hand building.