Should we buy bigger house for our kids teenage years - in an area we don’t want to live after school years are finished

[Curledpup]

3 bed bungalow currently which feels like we are outgrowing. Moving to 4 bed house would be very expensive for us in moving costs and also more expensive house. The area we are currently has good schools but it isn’t an area we see ourselves forever. So trying to decide if we should make do with smaller house and make the move once kids leave for uni and we can buy wherever we want at that point. Or is there no point moving then, once they are out of teenage years. It’s 10 years til youngest would finish school, who can I suppose is a long time. But if we move to bigger house now I feel it would then be the forever home.

Could you build another floor on the bungalow for your bedroom or rooms for your DC? I have no idea about how much something like this costs?

I always find threads like this confusing , we have a six bed, but 7dc still at home so three have their own rooms and the other other four share with one sibling. We have no plans to move.
If all dc have their own room why move just for a bigger bedroom , it’s such an unnecessary expensive. Look on Pinterest for small bedroom ideas.

Villages are horrible for teens, and 20 miles is a long way from their friends. Personally I'd move now and then again when you no longer need a family home

MyDcAreMarvel I moved when my DC were 13 and 14 to a more expensive house and slightly bigger house with a much better layout for an improved quality of life. As it happens my new house has increased by a much bigger percentage than my previous one so
we have only gained from the move.