To ask at what age you bought your "forever" home?

[Daisypop89]

Myself and DP bought our first home last Spring (at 29 years old). We had DD1 already when we bought it and DD2 arrived at the end of last year. The house is a new build in a nice estate, about 30 minutes from my hometown. I just don't know if it's our "forever" home. It's in a nice quiet area, schools etc. all around are lovely.

I'd like to know what age you were when you bought your forever home? Perhaps I just feel we are still so young to be tied to the same property for the rest of our lives, and maybe one day we will want something bigger/better.

Early 30s when we bought the house we're in now. Unless something unexpected happens my children will all grow up here - we bought a house that would work for our family for the foreseeable future. It's not perfect, but I love this house and would make the same decision again every time. (It's quite like a lot of the houses we almost moved into when I was a teenager - a big rackety three-storey terrace - my younger daughter has the type of bedroom I really wanted in the attic!)
Plan is to move when the kids leave - it's a family home and I think a family should live in it. My in-laws, who are rattling around in a large and impractical house a few miles away, insist we'll change our mind when we're older though!

I am fully planning for my first house to be my forever house. Bought it at 28. It isn't fancy, but I can't imagine living anywhere else.

We bought our first home when I was 25 and what I believe to be our forever home at 42. Course things change but I can't see me ever wanting to leave this house

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I bought when I was 32 first time, moved again when I was 38 and been in that house for seven years now. I don't think I like the idea of a "forever home". My house is where I live, nothing more, nothing less. I don't like the idea of getting overly attached to material things. Life circumstances can change suddenly and quality of life is not about material possessions. Also, just on a practical level, as life progresses, what you want in a property will change. Now I have a garden that I enjoy working in. When I get older, the garden may become a chore and I will want to live somewhere much lower maintenance.

'Forever home'? That's just a load of made up old bollocks. Live where you want - job done. Stop stressing about idealist shit (this also includes things like 'dream home', 'perfect butter dish' and 'holy grail moisturiser') and enjoy today. Lives change, just as yours will and what you need in thirty years time will be very different to what you need today.

23, my second house. I will move within the next ten years as my arthritis gets worse as I need a downstairs loo. So far I've been here 29 years.

I don’t believe in forever homes. We move often! Our current home could last us until we die or we might move in a year, who knows!
We’ve moved 4 times in the last 7 years. We are 42 and 46 and I’ve been on the property ladder for 20 years.

Never. We rent from the housing association and will be here probably until the dc move out and we get a bungalow. We'll never be able to buy.

Bought current house at 28 - it's a basic 3 bed semi. Still here 36 years later, but will probably be thinking of something smaller in the next 3/5 years.

Been in our family home 17 years we were early 30’s when we brought it, now ready to downsize, hoping to move this year.

37. Unfortunately we sold it when I was 43. It still saddens me, though it felt like the best thing to do at the time.

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29, but we didn't think we would stay this long. Turns out it was a good choice, so we are extending it. Might not stay forever though, who knows.

no such thing imo. I've moved a few times since I had children, and will probably move again in the next couple of years.

2 years after I got divorced. The previous homes were clearly not forever 🙂

I'm 57 and have owned 10 properties that I've lived in and I've still not found my forever home...

At 46, a big four bedroom house. However, I will sell it and buy a small one once the kids leave home :)

28. We were incredibly lucky to have got some family inheritance plus we're higher earners and bought at the right time. It was a project house that we've fully renovated and extended 2 times. Can't ever imagine moving now.

30, but I am old and we bought just before prices started going bananas. Got a 3 bedroom with a view to having kids - nice area, good primary schools, secondary school awful but that sorted itself out by the time DDs were of an age. Had the garage converted so now we have 4 bedrooms.

I'm 52, widowed, living with DD2 and a fostered 17 year old and I won't move from here until it's time to downsize and hand a chunk of cash to the kids.

30 but the same as you me and dh thought it was our forever home but now not al sure. We love our area though so it would take alot for us to move. I think we just have some changes to make the the house to make it more a forever home and that costs money unfortunately!

I don't think there is a thing as a "forever home".

When kids leave home this house will be too big, We will downsize and free up some equity for travel and give the kids money for a deposit on their own house.

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last year at 63 aint moving again too traumatic

We don't have a forever home. We will downsize when older, especially when retired.

For now we live in our family home - 4 bed town house near the countryside but also bear the city centre. Lovely area and a house brimming enough for our needs. We moved here when we were 32 and dd was 3.

When older and we retire we hope to be able to travel more especially in the winter moves so may well move back to a good sized, non ground floor apartment which we can shut up more safely for a month at a time.