Namechanged as it's identifying.
I'm currently renting living with dh and our two dc. It's been on the cards for some time now that we'd be buying somewhere, but it hasn't been easy finding somewhere we want. Dh was quite keen on going across town where it's cheaper, but I didn't want to disrupt the dcs schooling, clubs, and stuff, eldest is quite involved with his cubs and his footy team locally, not really any good schools over that way either. I'm probably quite stuck here because I feel we are established and dc were getting upset about the move especially my eldest.
There isn't much nice housing over here that's affordable. In the end we have found a house literally up the road that we are all happy with, had an offer accepted.
All good, except I've realised that it's highly unlikely that the eldest will get into his chosen secondary school now. I really didn't think it would make any difference as it's only up the road, but having done a bit more research it's just slightly out of area. He might still get a place, but whereas we're almost guaranteed where we are now, we won't be. Seems about 50/50 over the past few years.
Ds really wants to go to this school, it's a very good school, most of his friends will be going there.
Having said that we are lucky there are other fairly good schools around that he should get into one of them, but I think he'll be really disappointed and wouldn't know anyone.
Dh is really annoyed and thinks I'm being ridiculous that I didn't want to move far and now I'm reluctant to even move up the road, but he's not really interested in schools he's of the opinion that any school will do. He keeps saying things like ds will get in because his friends will be going and the school wouldn't do that, even though that's not how the admission criteria works.