AIBU to want to move house?

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This has been bothering me for a few months now and I can't decide whether i have enough reasons to move house or not

Reasons for

1. Garden is too small
2. I have a grand piano I inherited (currently stuffed in the integral garage) with no where to put
3. Our current house (bought brand new) is at an age where it needs a lot of money spending on it e.g kitchen/bathrooms are in need of replacing
4. We have a tiny kitchen
5. The secondary schools in the catchment area are AWFUL

Reasons against

1. Like the area
2. Lovely neighbours and DSs have lots of friends on the street where they play
3. We don't really want to 'up' our mortgage even though we can afford it - we want to live a good lifestyle
4. For houses that fit our needs we would need an additional £80k and all we would gain would be a bigger kitchen, 1 more bedroom and a bigger garden.

I can't decide whether to stay put or bite the bullet and move
AIBU to want to move?

YANBU but where will you get the 80k?

We would have to remortgage - 80k seems such a lot of money for a bigger kitchen/garden and a box room

How old are you if you don't mind me asking? How old is DS?

2 years ago we moved about 200 metres up the road to a bigger house. We didn't even get an extra bedroom! But the garden was bigger, the rooms were bigger, we got an extra room downstairs and the kitchen was huge :)
If you can afford it and you want it, I would say do it. As DC grow up, you will need more space....and that's before you house the piano.
Seriously, our upgrade cost quite a lot, but I saw it as an opportunity to remortgage.

If you stay, and the secondary schools are awful, what would you do (private? travel? suck it up?)???? Think about the cost of that too, because it might be significant.
Good luck with what you decide.

I'm 34 - DSs are nearly 7 and 4

Oh do it. You're young enough! Do you both work? Try to find a way to get more income...I know that sounds breezy and a bit silly but there ARE ways.

For me the decider is the school situation. If you say the secondary schools are awful, do you really want to send your children there. If not, then move.
If it means that the children will have to change primary schools, I would do it sooner rather than later.
Or use your £80,000 on private school

Why do you "need" to replace the kitchen and bathroom? We're in rented, and I'd guess that both kitchen and bathrooms were installed about, um, 30 years ago (going by style/colour) but they're both perfectly functional and don't "need" replacing. (Though I'd love a new bathroom, the aubergine suite is painful to look at!)