We live in a nice ex council house. Quiet cul de sac, 2 minutes walk to youngest child's school, 5 minutes walk to shops, restaurants, leisure centre etc and my work. We only need one car as I can walk everywhere.
Three bedrooms which is enough for a family of four, eldest son's bedroom is small but not tiny and he says he loves his room. Large wrap around garden, double drive. Our mortgage is just over 100k so very affordable on our income and I only need to work part time.
Now the cons. New neighbours moved in next door over the summer so we've gone from having a lovely older couple who were quiet and considerate to having a family with three young kids, the youngest being one who just seem to make noise all the time. They seem to have no bedtime routine for them so they can all be still up at 1am shouting and screaming. It's a link villa so only the living room is joined on to them. We have a large kitchen diner but we like to watch TV on an evening in the living room, there's no TV in the kitchen extension. Our living room is cosy and a nice place to relax on an evening, well it used to be. Our kids are either up in their bedrooms or quietly relaxing upstairs by 8pm so I used to see that as our time to relax. H also wfh a lot of the time and can hear them screaming during the day but to be fair he can move into another room at that time.
I don't want to have a word with them as it would just bring bad feeling and realistically it's not going to change until their kids are much older. It's obviously just in their nature whereas my kids are much quieter.
That's the main reason but I would also love oldest child to have a bigger bedroom as who knows how long he'll be at home before he moves out as an adult and I would also love a view from the garden. At the moment we look out onto our garden which is lovely but you can see the roofs of the bungalows behind at the end of the garden. I'd love to look onto open fields.
You'd probably be looking at a mortgage of another 100 a month to get our wish list above which wouldn't make a huge difference but would mean we'd have a mortgage for another 5 to 6 years.
Would you move under those circumstances?