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DH regretting house purchase - don’t know what to do

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CoffeeBooksRats · 30/06/2026 17:10

Has anyone else got experience of this or advice on what I should do…?

Me, DH and our three DC moved house 6 months ago into what was meant to be our “forever” house. We’ve already done a significant amount of work to the house and garden, kids are really settled, walking to school with friend who live on the same street etc.

DH now saying he regrets the house purchase due to location of the house (he likes the area but not the specific street due to traffic noise). He thinks that any changes we can make to the house (eg soundproofing) will never be enough and that we should put the house back on the market. For context it’s a b road in a city suburb. There is traffic noise, but it doesn’t bother the rest of us at all. We seem to be able to zone it out, but DH says he cannot.

I’m absolutely devastated and don’t know what to do. I find the stress of moving house incredibly difficult and I don’t want to uproot our family again. AIBU? What would you do? Does anyone have experience of this kind of situation?

OP posts:
Jan24680 · 30/06/2026 17:18

We moved 4 months ago. It's a 4 bed boomer bungalow. I hated it for a few months. Think I am coming round to it. As him to give it a few more months?

As an aside we could not afford to move, the fees and tax are too much.