Gas or Wood? Which do you prefer for your fireplace?

Gas or Wood?  Which do you prefer for your fireplace?

I have a wood burning fireplace, thinking of converting to natural gas.  Which do you like better?  Which one do you think consumers looking to buy a house think is better?

I will admit wood is messy, smells bad if you don't have a good fire burning and get back puffs on windy days.  Then there is the cleanup.

On the other side, natural gas doesn't look as good as a nice wood fire.  Six of one, half a dozen of the other.  What would you do?

Turn up the volume to hear the crackling on this real wood fire.