Breezehome in Whiterun was way more useful and efficient for $5000 gold. Plus the smiths and shops are just outside making things quick and easy. Not so in Solitude.
Aye, I don't think I'll ever move if I can avoid it. Perfect. I had a facepalm when failed to notice the smelter behind the Warmaiden's crafting area and tried to find one out in the wilds.

. Everything's so close, plus on fast-travel to Whiterun it's about five seconds' walk away.
Pfft, all the kids are the same kid cloned -- boys and girls have the same face. All I can say is that somebody has been very, very busy (in a shot span of time) and the women of Skyrim have a lot of explaining to do.
All the same age, same face, same voices...*shiver* It bolts me out of the game every time a clonekid comes up to me.
I wonder if this was due to a couple of the pre-release reviews for Skyrim saying that, finally, here's an ES game with kids in it, and unfortunately they're ugly. One called them little trolls or something equally unflattering. Shortly thereafter, I read another review that indicated that the ugly kids problem seemed to have been resolved. Perhaps rush job to fix it by simply cloning the (approximate) same face sliders to all the kids in the game once there was one determined to be untrollish.