When I met my DP, he had just bought a house in an "up and coming" area. I had just sold my place, made some cash on the sale and soon moved in with him for convenience and because we wanted to be together. But I never liked the neighborhood. He on the other hand likes the house a lot and doesn't let the area bother him. The thing is, the up and coming area hasn't really come up at all! It is scruffy and unlovely, there are groups of young men dealing drugs in an intimidating way outside the local pub, no green spaces, no trees, dog muck on the pavements, no decent shops, a very downmarket mini market, the local train station is grim, escalator hardly ever works, massive scrum every night for parking in the streets around and about. DP refuses to move and thinks it is still up and coming (10 years and counting!). I just want to live somewhere a bit nicer. AIBU?
Full disclosure, our DC are in a local school which is very good and which we love.