At the point of despair with it all really so some perspective needed please!
Background... 2 DC aged 5 & 2, we are lucky to live in a nice house in a lovely area. DS 5 goes to a good oversubscribed local primary. All good so far.
Unfortunately the two closest secondaries are dire and have been since I can remember. Seems to be little prospect of them improving.
We put the house on the market well over a year ago with a view to moving somewhere with a decent primary/secondary before DS started reception.
Sold the house after a couple of months. It fell through sept time after our sellers pulled out. We were gutted as our buyers then pulled out. Took the house off the market over Xmas & put it back on end of jan.
Sold again in March for the asking price. We found a house we loved & all was going well...until a fortnight ago when our sellers pulled out again!!!
We're now about a week away from exchange & faced with moving into rented with two small kids while we wait for somewhere to buy. I just feel drained by it all & am dreading the prospect of moving twice. There is very little on the rental market that isn't tiny or pretty grim. All of the primaries in the areas we're looking at moving/renting are full so would have to drive DS 4-5 miles to school each day.
I just feel like throwing the towel in at this point & waiting 3-4 yearsuntil DS is closer to secondary age but worried I'll regret it later as we'll have to go through all this again. To complicate matters building work has started on 250 new houses at the end of our road which we'll be competing with plus I feel awful about pulling the plug on our chain. 😞
What do I do?!