I am 60 years old and in my lifetime I have never not heated with wood.....except for 7 years in the Navy.
We put in a pellet stove 3 years ago and I ain't never lookin' back. No chain saw, no log splittin', no bark on the carpet, no soot on the curtains, no stack fires, no triple wall stove pipe, no weekends wasted gettin' firewood, no gas expense to go get firewood, clean the stove once a week and get a milk carton half full of ash, no wet firewood pile, easy to start, no burns on the floor. Environmentally sound, way cheaper heat source. Very consistant, controlled heat.
Lots of people enjoy the entire firewood experience.....not me....always hated anything to do with it. One of those childhood things that they made you do, I guess. Seemed like, no matter how much wood I had stacked and split, we always had to go cut more. Screw that. I had a million things I'd rather been doin'......fixin' fence, or having my teeth pulled.
The ONLY downside I have is that, in the event of a power outage, you will have to fire up the Honda Generator to keep a pellet stove going.