Have you ever moved house and really hated the house?

[PinkPonyTail]

And totally regretted the move?

What was the end result?

I moved about a year ago, we have had endless problems with the house but getting them, slowly, resolved, but I really just hate living here.

The main problem is the lack of privacy. Since I’ve been married I’ve always lived in the town but grew up in the country. Anyhow, husband wanted us to move for work (I didn’t) but I’m so miserable here. No privacy, everything I go outside there’s someone there.

I’m absolutely plagues with people knocking at the door, constantly, many times a day wanting my kids out. I’ve tried to tell them if my children are out then they’d love to play, but if they aren’t don’t knock the door as we are doing other stuff. They keep on doing it.

I’ve also exchanged numbers with one of the dads as his son plays with mine and he’s taken to messaging me really inappropriate stuff. I message him earlier saying ‘I find your messages inappropriate and rude’ that’s how bad it is.

Our last house was in the town but it was on a road, and we didn’t have people calling like this.

The only thing living here has going for it is that it’s close to work. I hate it.

I just wondered if anyone has been in a similar position.

You poor thing that sounds miserable. I also relocated three years ago and have felt the same for two years when we moved to a different house but for the opposite reason I feel so isolated! I feel trapped. The only thing that keeps me going is that DH has promised we won't still be living here in five years and we are working to keep that promise. Can you talk to your husband and find some kind of deadline?

I moved 18 months ago to a place that sounds like where you’re living. I actually love the neighbours and the kids knocking every 5 minutes! They don’t even actually have to knock nowadays, if I’m in my front doors open. I can imagine it being hard for you if you like your privacy though. Are you renting or have you bought the house? Are you able to move?

We moved to this house because we wanted to get out of the area we lived in.
The house is lovely. It is bright and light and airy and the garden is more like a park than a garden. The street is quiet and the neighbours on the whole are OK

I missed my old home for years, and still do to some extent. I did not miss the street which was full of nosy parkers and there was a parking problem, but I missed and still do to be hones - the house.

You will make your new house into a home as I have done and remember your reasons for moving. It will all work out in the end.

I bet your children love it when their friends come knocking !

Yep, I swapped houses. Seemed a good idea at the time but the house was too dark and I didn't enjoy living on my own. I sold it 12 months later and lost £20k on the deal but I couldn't live there any longer. I then moved back to the immediate area of where I grew up and found just the right property. It needed a lot of work but I never regretted it. It has an outside kharzi and an air raid shelter.

I absolutely hate our bedroom in the house we moved to in April this year. Everything else about the house I'm fine with, the kitchen and the younger dc's bedroom I love, but I hate our bedroom more than any room I have ever lived in. If it were entirely up to me and we had the money I would move just for that alone... but seeing as the house works for the rest of the family and we don't have the money I think I am stuck sleeping in a room I hate. (Diamond shoes too tight, I know. This is a nothing complaint. I feel like a total dick even admitting it.)

I have to admit having a strong dislike of the house I currently live in when we first moved in. We had to move, we needed more space and this was what we could afford.
It didn't help that the previous occupiers basically stopped cleaning when they accepted our offer. They also left some damage and an overflowing skip.
The day we moved in was bitterly cold, but we needed the doors open all the time and I spent the whole day cleaning. By the end I was practically in tears. I went to bed, noticed a squashed fly on the wall and decided we'd just made a massive mistake.
Some years down the line however - we've replaced the grotty kitchen and boy has that helped. The garden is no longer a neglected mass of weeds and nettles.
Now it's home. We're close to a good school my children go to and we get on with the neighbors, which was an initial worry of mine.
I do still find myself wistfully looking at very nice houses for sale though, even though they're astronomically out of our budget!

Yes, many years ago I sold a 1 bed flat and bought a 3 bed maisonette with a garden. I hated it, which surprised me because I though it would be perfect before I moved in. Difficult to say why, but it never felt like mine, and I had very little money spare so I was living with the previous occupants carpets/decorations, etc (they had lived there for over 20 years). I moved in in the July, and by the August the next year I had sold it and moved on. However I made a large profit, so that was easy money at least.