We moved twoish years ago for Dh's job. Couldn't sell our house so rented and rented our house out. We had a child already in Reception at school. Put her in the best school that had a place at the time - a few miles from where we could rent a house. We moved her in Year2 to our local school and in lieu of having to make school application for our youngest. We planned to buy a house in this area when we sold our house.
We sold our house this year. We can't find a house we like for our budget and feel restricted by trying to stay within a mile or so of DD's school. There's not much turnaround of houses in this area - hasn't been for about 6 months. I don't know what is going on but after two years of living in a not that great rental house I am desperate for this situation to change.
I'm also regretting having committed ourselves to this area. There are areas I like more - about 5 miles away. But that would mean driving children to school for 4 years until at least the eldest started secondary school. And lots more (initial) disruption for our children who haven't had much of a settled life for the last two years.
Will we regret moving so far away from the children's school or is that quite a normal thing to do? Or do we stick close to the school and hold out for an unknown amount of time for a good house to come up? Both this area and the other area we like have good secondary schools.
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Can't find a house we like where we live. How do we decide what we compromise on?
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pernickety · 17/05/2010 22:32
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