Just interested in other people’s thoughts on this is you’ve had any experience.
We are have recently started to contemplate moving homes for extra space both in terms of the house and garden. This new home we have seen is also in a gated community of just 4 homes as appose to where we live currently on a new built housing estate.
We would be moving away about 15/20mins away from where we are now so would not be changing schools. (One DD in Primary, One DD due to start secondary in September) at the moment both schools are within walking distance but moving would mean having to drop off in car, which I can do and I don’t need to rely on anyone but my mum at the moment lives round the corner and can help if needed.
We like our house now and its location we could do with abit more space but we could manage too (I know this doesn’t help!!)
Both DDs do not want to move they like their bedrooms 🥰 I am worried we would be isolating them moving away from a typical new build estate which is near to friends and schools. Also aware eldest is due to start secondary so dynamics is going to change as well as a lot of change for her with I am conscious of.
The area we may move to is more in the countryside so no shops within walking distance etc we drive and aware it would be on me to take DDs to friends and they come to us etc. I’ll think it’s hard as we don’t know what eldest will be like with friends at secondary school as I know it is different to when I went, more tech and safety - hanging round the streets etc any mums with secondary school kids that have any experience what theirs do after schools? She has drums after school clubs which she wants to continue and has expressed some of the afterschool activities available at her new school.
Bit of a rambled but my questions are
has anyone done this and regretted it or what you would do differently?
And what do your young teenagers (tweens?) do after school? Do you have to run them about anyway?