To ask if you love your house and could imagine staying forever

I like my house. The concept of a “forever” home is lame in my opinion. We don’t live forever and we get old and decrepit. A home should cater for you now. I live in a four storey home, it won’t be a great forever option when I’m 80 and can’t negotiate the stairs.

I love "my" house. It's rented unfortunately, but it's so great, I wish it was mine.
It needs a lot doing to it and I'd love to be able to actually do it.
The rent is a LOT but it's actually comparitively cheap for what I have. It's a large 3 bed and I feel really comfortable in it as I'm very claustrophobic and hated living in a pokey 2 bed terrace.
The front and back gardens are massive and the neighbours are amazing, oir kids are all best friends.
I hate that one day I will have the dream of owning my own house but it won't be this house. I just hope that when we so buy, I love it as much as I do here.

I love my house and land. We have 4 acres. But I’m sure eventually it will get too much to manage.

I love our house, because of the memories we've made here and the community it's in. That said, once the children leave home and we retire, I think we will downsize but stay in the area.

I love my house. I grew up in it. We only rent it as my Mum wanted to downsize so we moved in. Although it is very old and crumbling the view is amazing and we are so happy and secure here.

I disagree - I think the forever home is something form the last 20 years only and I see it as a marketing ploy

imy nana lived in the same home until she moved to care but it wasn’t a “forever home” it was a standard council house

I can imagine staying here until I die or need care - it’s not what would be advertised as a forever home - just an ordinary 3 bed estate semi. It’s home. At last after a number of moves and the first time I have chosen the location for me rather than work. But I’d never call it a forever home - just home. At last.

I love my house. It’s on the market. I think it’s too big and has three floors. As I’m 63 I think I should find something more suitable for long term. If it doesn’t sell I’ll be secretly pleased.

I've lived in my house for 36 years. I love it just as much as the day I moved in. The location not so much. It's in a tiny village which was perfect when raising children, not so good in old age. DH refuses to move. I don't need to downsize, just move somewhere with amenities.

My house isn't perfect but I couldn't be bothered to move again - it's too stressful. Also, I think no house is perfect and it's best to focus on the good things about where you are instead of always wanting something else.

I'm 49 and I counted up the number of houses I've lived in - it came to 33. So I'm staying put for at least 10 years this time!

Completely agree with PPs, I can’t imagine having a forever home, not when you take into account the area you’re in, or perhaps your commute to work (not so much these days). Looking back I’ve had a couple of places that would suit me now better than they did at that time, but I think the idea of a forever home is a concept from the previous generation, along with the assumption you bought that home to start a family. Lives are just not that linear any more.

Both my husband and myself thought about moving when we retired but, we loved our house, it's location and everything about it! So we future proved it, made gardens easier to maintain, new boiler, new kitchen etc and I honestly cant see us moving at all!

The first house we bought was always a “good for now but not forever” house.
We lived there almost 10 years but the last 2-3 was getting a bit too much and I was really getting a bit stressed.

We’ve lived in our current house for 2 years and I love it. There is work to be done from a decorating point of view and making it ours, but it’s the perfect layout, we have enough space and rooms, and I really don’t see us moving from here unless we moved to a different city or country.

i adore this house from the day we moved in and I adore it still.

I love my house (been here 20 years) but I don't think the concept of a forever house is that helpful. I fully expect to downsize to something smaller/better connected as I get older and circumstances change.

Oh I'm totally with you on that!! Just finding a forever house feels like giving up on life - that there's nothing else out there.

I hope I never reach the point of wanting to stay somewhere forever. For me, a house will always have niggles but it does the job at the time. When the job changes (location, number of people living there, other commitments or interests) then it's time to move.

I felt like this in my previous house, hated it, it never looked clean and I felt stressed constantly. Moved last month and I instantly felt at home and I’m enjoying life and work more too