To ask what will happen to the housing market in two years?

[elmouno]

I want to move in a couple of years to a larger house with a bigger garden, with more space for kids and a veg patch. We can't move now because we are locked in to our mortgage for the next couple years and because we changed jobs, it means we will have to wait. Our jobs are WFH permanently and we have no attachment to our location.

I'm wondering, will it be too late to move somewhere remote by then? Will all areas of housing be equal? So it won't matter if you live in greater London or an unpopulated area up north?

I'm mostly just curious about other people's opinions.

For AIBU purpose

YABU: House location will always be priced as it is now.
YANBU: Location won't matter anymore and all flats, semi detached, and detached will eventually cost the same in accordance to their size within the next few years.

Yes, some people definitely do prefer a quieter life, and WFH may give those people the opportunity to live somewhere more suitable and affordable for them. I think people who move with their eyes open as to the pros/cons of different areas are the ones most likely to be happy wherever they go.

It's the people who move to a place (whether it be city or rural) with an unrealistic vision of an idyllic life, expecting the place to deliver a certain lifestyle, that will likely be disappointed wherever they go.

Saw a guy recently in a designer flat cap and some very posh looking (and immaculate) boots - he was dressed like a city person's image of a country-dweller. He looked utterly ridiculous, but I think that's the image some people buy into.