Sorry for the long post but want to give as much info at first as possible!
I live with my OH, my toddler and my soon to be newborn about 4 hours drive away from my parents. My parents want to be involved in our DCs lives and often visit.
My OHs mum and sis live about an hour away from us, which is where she grew up so she’s still got a network of school friends around there. Her family I think like us being near but we don’t see them very often as we’re not too close, we’ve both accepted that over the years.
We’ve lived in our current area for 5 years and have started to build a network of “new” friends in this area.
I’m a SAHM and my OH is a consultant engineer who works all over the country on projects.
To the question! We’ve just inherited some money which means we can move to more of a “forever” home. In our current area we could buy a 3 bed with a sizeable mortgage, near my parents we could buy a 3 bed with zero mortgage - or larger with one (obv!)
Other benefit of being near my parents are free childcare a couple of days a week (already offered by my mum).
Job move isn’t an issue for my OH as we’re pretty sure she could actually keep the same job.
Obviously we would need to start again in terms of friends etc as neither of us know anyone near my parents.
What would you do and/or consider to make the decision?
I moved a lot when I was a child due to my dads job so I’m not “scared” of moving. However my OH has grown up near this area and has never really had to make new friends so is understandably more worried about it!