How I find a house that suits me within an appropriate timeframe

You can totally tell that you are still at the very beginning of your house search. You believe that, like with a TV, you can calmly and rationally choose the best offer. Everything is still very naive and sugar-coated. The reality is different.

You have to commit to a good house within one day, otherwise someone else will buy it. And even if you like a house, it doesn’t mean you will get the deal. Your dream house can slip away from you multiple times in a row. That’s the reality.

Without making compromises, there is no house. Or you build exactly what you want yourself, which answers your question about new construction.

Do you find it funny that people go into debt and ruin their lives because of a wrong emotional decision?

In my view, the only advantage of self-building is that the house later looks the way you want it to.

It is not funny when people are doing badly – whatever. I find your statement funny. Anyone who decides rationally about their roof over their head does not buy a house – and certainly not one in which they have to do handiwork.

"however one wants it" - if there’s no emotion in that...

Do you always handle it like this? I mean, that you ask someone for advice and then get annoyed if the answers are not as you hoped or rather even desired?