The house you are living in now - do you plan on staying there forever? Or are you going to move?

Question

I know I am going to have to move in a few years(expecting second child of opposite sex and live in a 2 bed)but I can't get my head round the fact I'm going to have to leave this house that I love so much, and my garden, and the area is so beautiful, but I won't be able to get another house in this area.
When you think of your future, do you think of moving as a positive thing?

Answer 1

Yes I do think of it as a positive thing. I've just moved in to a new home and plan to stay there for 5 years, make some money and buy a new place with a view to doing the same thing. I absolutely love my new home but a home is also an investment.

Answer 2

My husband and I bought our first home about 5 months before our second daughter was born. We moved to the house we live in now when our daughters were 7 and 9 years old. (Of course, the fact that my mother bought our old house helped the transition, so that was definitely a positive part of the move!) I love my big old farmhouse, but I would love to find a way to live in FL during the winter months! The girls are now 21 1/2 and 24, and we have a 2 1/2 year old granddaughter, so it's not really a case of "empty nest", but I think it's time for a change again. I think moving can be a positive experience if you make it one.

Answer 3

I'm moving. Same story. We have one child, with another on the way. But we're moving because we live 1500 miles away from our parents and siblings and we've decided that while the job opportunities are much better where we are now, that it is probably better for the kids to be close to their grandparents and cousins.

While i hate that I'm going to have to leave a job that I love and a house that I love, I think that the moving will be a good thing, and that after a few years it will be hard to imagine not living in the new place.

Answer 4

I love my house and we are having alot of work done to it at the moment to make it even better - bigger kitchen, bigger bedrooms, and the garden done professionally- it is in a perfect area and we are surrounded by our friends, the only way I would move would be to a bigger house and it would have to be something special. We will probably move in the next few years. It is definately a postive thing as each time you move you go up a level. Well some people do I suppose it is only if you can afford it.

Answer 5

We are going to move as our house accomodates us for now but when are children are grown and get married and have children it will be too small. We want to make sure we have enough room so we plan on buying a larger home once our kids are out of high school.

You do fall in love with a home and it is hard to move from it when the time comes. Be sure to take lots of pictures for memories and look at the new move as somewhere to build new memories.

Good luck!

Answer 6

I have a really nice 2 bedroomed house at the moment, its location is great! Not too close to the city but within 15 mins walk, so we dont even need taxi's when me and the wife want to go out on the lash with friends. I also spent allot of time building my own koi pond, and we are going to get all the windows done in the next month. Followed by the Kitchen and then the bathroom. However when we have kids we are going to have to move. Shame really but thats the way it is. We are thinking about selling it to my wifes parents for their retirement so they can give it back to us in their wills when they pop their clogs and our kids have grown old.

Answer 7

I've moved lots, well actually lots and lots and lots! Been in this place for over 12 years now though, and think it'll be the last place I have in this country.
If its your own house, and you love it so much have you thought about the possibility of extending it? Loft conversion perhaps? Whatever you end up doing I'm sure that you'll make a beautiful home wherever you go. Good luck with your pregnancy.

Answer 8

we are in the process of doing yr move (2 bed hse with 2 adults & 2 small children) & we really looked into new areas before looking at hse's and i'm glad to say we are moving to a 4 bed detached in a lovely village with small schools & clubs and a very family oriantated enviroment, there is a farm at the bottom of our road with a river running behind it, lots of open fields (i now want a dog !! ) This is our future and as long as my marriage doesn't go pear shaped :) we will live there forever, well until the girls go to uni or move onwards & upwards.
Happy home hunting

Answer 9

I love your question. Moving is always hard. Many people, myself included, will have to move because government leaders' failures have created a strong inflation of the currency--and handed it to incompetent young people. Injustice is the strongest factor in the workplace. Then as one grows older, many people are told they can't work or can't obtain jobs for which they are more qualified. Add to this those who mess up their lives, grow ill through no fault of their own, are injured and have to switch jobs, and the pressure to move to a less expensive and less-desirable house or apartment becomes very strong. Yes, I will have to move within five years; and we don't know what we are going to be able to afford, not in this economically disastrous constitutional crisis.

Answer 10

To be honest i want to leave because the house really isn't a reflection of us. The house is breaking down, there is damp on the wall and the banister is falling down and the stairs are broken. Also the area is really terrible, with gun men and we ahev a prostitue/ crackhead down the road. But to be honest I have good memories. Us and the family but i'd love to go somewhere else and make new family.