Would you rather have a pokestop or a gym inside your house?
Spawns are common, nothing rare.
Gym:
+guaranteed gym coins and easily controllable by your team
+ You get 8-10 items every spin with boosted rate of revives and potions
- Unavailable to use lures
Stop:
+Taking advance from 6h lures
-"only" 3 items every spin
Answers
I’d prefer a gym for the items but I’ll stick with a stop thanks to real life experience. We live at the back of a housing area with two dead ends. We have a stop and the other end has a gym. We have a very active Discord group which includes a lot of car owners. Weekend and evening raids can easily attract 15-20 players and most ignore the rules about resident and visitor parking spaces. In one extreme case the gym had the first Ho-oh raid in our area and 100 people turned up leaving cars in the middle of the street just as most residents were returning from work.
I would say a stop since I never find a time when I feel like using the lures I've had for a few months, also since there's a gym on the church at the end of the block from my house, but there's also a player on an opposing team who must live in the apartments next door to the church who never lets my defenders be for any length of time, unless I take the gym very late at night, so maybe I'd pick a gym.
A gym. I won't get the daily spin bonus but at least I might catch a raid on days when the weather is too annoying. Plus I'd let some people stay in it for a while, lol.
I already have 2 pokestops near my house, though i only reach them if my character decides to drift toward them.
Sadly, this may never happen since if every player got a gym in the cities, you'd have a hard time seeing anything on the map because of them. For rural areas however, this would be very useful. Heck even giving them a private spawn would be useful at this point.
I remember someone saying they can't get daily bonus, so I thought it didn't act like a real stop. But one thing they have lost is the ability to tell what pokemon are near them. I no longer see the park's spawns around gyms on the Nearby scanner, whereas before I knew what nest the one near a famous house hosted. Now I have to go there and see what pops up.
The lack of nearby is the worst thing about the gyms. The gym near my house I mentioned in my first post was originally a stop, and there had been a few times particularly rare mons appeared at it and I could notice (once a blastoise, and another time a dragonair showed up late at night and I still walked down to get it). Now I don't get the benefit of that anymore.
