If you own your home, are you hoping to move before your children leave home?

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Am just curious, really.
We sold our last house and moved to a bigger one after getting a BFP (with dc4). We will stay here now until the dc leave home and as far into the future as we can imagine, iykwim.

Are you wanting to move again? If so, why? I would like an attic conversion and a conservatory in the future, so would aim for those rather than move again.

I can't see me moving for ages as a variety of adult DC and their friends come home in the hols. Last Christmas I had my three and three other uni students plus friends dog for Christmas. Utter chaos and lovely

I love it when they go as well...

We were fairly fortunate in that we could buy our 'forever' home when our DCs were under 3yo. It has plenty of space (4 double bedrooms, 4 reception rooms) so we don't need to extend.

We hope to downsize when the DCs leave home. By that time, we'll be so old we'll need a starlift anyway.

I agree with sage think you always need to have at least one spare room for grown up children or GC to come to, my dad still has his 3 bed house and even tho I have adult dc of my own , I know if life turns to crap as it sometimes does I can still go "home" to dad

We are just moving into what will be our forever home. It has four bed rooms so with three dc that is all we need. It is already extended to the limit, and will see us through till retirement and old age hopefully. Part of the reason for wanting the dc to have their own room is so they can stay in the family home into adult hood should they need to and there will always be space for them should they want to come home and visit with any of my grandchildren. (Dc are only 7, 5, 2, but I'm being organised and thinking ahead!)

We are going to extend eventually. Will prob be able to do the garage for the cost of moving.

Yes, probably countries too as although where we are is great for children, imo it's absolutely awful for teenagers.

So will be moving somewhere more suitable as they approach their teenage years.

I hope that we never move.

Our dc are nearly 19 and 15. DS was supposed to go to uni this year but decided on a gap year at the last minute.

We are moving on 1st November. We are downsizing to a more manageable house in a gated development because we plan on only being in London for six months of the year by the time we are 60.

I have been dreading it but am now really looking forward to it because our current house (for the last 21 years) is like the forth bridge, hard to clean, hard to heat and the area around it has got trendier and trendier and busier and busier and it is beginning to get on our bleddy nerves. Lovely thought it is and much as I think some of DS's last minute u turn about uni was to do with going and then not coming back to the home he came back to as a tiny baby and which has been the dc's lives for everything they remember.

I was unsure about all this at the start but I really think it is the right thing to do now not least because I have a special wine fridge, and a tap that pours boiling water onto my teabag and the cats have had a special micro chippy flat fitted and there can be no more marauders

Thanks everyone for the conservatory advice. I will be looking into an orangey then. Sounds tres posh