Brief outline :
I'm 35 and mother is 65.
I have 2 children a child in year 1 and a 3 year old.
My husband works for himself so should really be okay wherever we live although that's not a proven fact obviously just what we think.
I've lived in surrey since I was a teen as has my mum and stepdad.
My mum was in Tadworth and us in dorking just to give the distance since I had my eldest child.
We are lucky that we are renting a house from husbands sister who is now living in America with her husband and is glad of the £1000 a month we pay her.
Obviously the amount is similar to what we would pay privately ( or a little less ) but we have almost complete security, it's a home for our children and there is no constant worry like friends seem to have with renting where landlords sell / increase rent / won't allowed decorating, pets etc / having to move kids schools as couldn't find anything in the area again and so on.
Everything was great until my mum and stepdad decided last year it was the time to relocate to littlehampton.
My nan lives there ( 93 years old ) and has done for years but my grandad passed early last year so is now alone there and obviously getting older and more dependant on my mum who's an only child so they made the move and are happy.
They left a council house to rent privately and aren't worried about the landlord selling if it happens as if worse came to worse they could stay with my nan until they found something else.
Obviously we won't have that to fallback on as nan has a 2 bed bungalow and mum has a 2 bed flat.
I miss my mum terribly and she isn't getting any younger so I think now would be the best time to do it as the kids may not want to later on etc but my husband thinks we would be mad to go into private renting living 12 months to the next with 2 young children for the sake of a 90 min drive to my mum.
What do you all think :( thankyou