Do you feel sad when you look at a house you used to live in on Rightmove?

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Just looked at a house I lived in from the age of 11-18. So formative teenage years.

I’m now early 40s, so quite a long time ago!

I guess it doesn’t help that the owners have completely ripped the interior out.

But - I look at it and think - there’s the bathroom I discovered I got my period in. There’s the room I phoned a boy for the first time. Etc etc. Just feels a bit sad that I’ll never be able to step inside the house ever again!

Not at all! I looked up a key childhood residence, and a) admired the renovation job b) was amazed by the price tag c) cackled at the estate agents optimistic billing of it as located in desirable neighbourhood a. It’s a mile down the road and in neighbourhood b which has somewhat of a rep.

Dad was army so we lived in a LOT of houses! Some I can't check out obviously as they're still army quarters and not online but some were civvy lets (ordinary civilian houses that army had some arrangement to use like quarters) and many of these have now come back on civvy market and I have had a nosy and they're virtually unrecognisable! I can still visualise which rooms are where but whole walls have been knocked down to enlarge certain rooms etc.

My 1st loves home when we were together is also online and that's a weird one to look at, very different now, fond memories as we "Christened" almost every room 😂

Also last place I lived before here, had a lovely bathroom suite before there's now some godawful "modern" monstrosity been put in that's too big for the space. Very odd.

Yes

Ooh I've gone and looked on my childhood street now - so weird! My old house isn't there but identical layout ones are. I'd forgotten things like the transom windows on the bedrooms.

I moved out of my childhood home when I was 15 and moved 200 miles away with my parents - a few years ago both houses were on Right Move at the same time. It was very strange, they had both been refurbished and didn't look the same inside but looking at the views from the windows sent me into a tailspin - you can change the interior but not the view. And my first house still had the same front door 30 years later.

I do. Most of them, perfectly ordinary nothing special about them, London houses, now cost 1m+. I couldn't possibly afford to buy any of them now