We live at the bottom of a very steep hill, but it house is still on a steepish bit and our garden goes up the hill so it’s terraced/tiered on 5 levels. We’re in a rural area with houses only on one side of the road, and there are only about 10 or so in total on our bit.

• we don’t use the garden nearly as much as we thought. It’s a pain to schlep up the steps and it’s a long way down when you need a wee or something. It’s also out of sight out of mind for maintenance, we’ve ended up getting a gardener. Our view is spectacular but we can see it from the living room as well so the garden just doesn’t draw us up there. It’s also not very child friendly if that’s a consideration for you, and it’s not very older age friendly as time goes by.
• which direction does your hill face? We are on the side that gets the sunrise, which is another reason we don’t use the garden. The hill blocks sunlight around mid afternoon so no lovely evenings in the garden after work.
• we don’t have a wheelie bin, we have to put the bags out on the street which means lugging them down our steps a couple at a time, and also making sure the local wildlife doesn’t peck them to bits and make a mess everywhere.
• depending where your local pub/shops etc are, if you’re not driving then it’s either a pain on the way there or on the way back. Tottering down the hill a bit tipsy is quite fun, staggering back up is not.
• if it gets icy, you might be a bit fucked depending on how bad it is. We’ve also had cars come skidding down out of control and write off the neighbours parked car.

All that being said, we love where we live and we love our view. These are really the only downsides I can think of and they’re not that bad in the grand scheme of things.