You may have discovered that a character cottage was once a tied cottage. It is now more likely to be a holiday cottage or a retirement cottage.
A row of picturesque cottages may have, for centuries, been almshouses.
You may prefer to live in a model village rather than a company town, especially after the company has gone bankrupt and there is widespread unemployment there.
In the 19th centuries, mill towns were developed in Europe and North America. The residents may or may not have been provided with attractive accommodation. Most did not work in particularly attractive conditions though it may have been the only option, other than rural starvation.
How do you think about dwellings and other buildings in relation to scenic areas of the world?
What do you know about scenery and the scenic?
Have you often thought of character cottages and their flower-filled gardens as though they are theatrical scenery?
Have you ever booked a holiday cottage, after only looking at a few picturesque images of it, to find that the location is less pleasant than expected upon arrival?
Even a scenic route may be busy, especially on weekends and holidays. Your idyllic surroundings are likely to be quite unpleasant when noisy, smelly traffic zooms past, not to mention the smell from a nearby pig farm.