The houses are just so much bugger/ nicer for the money :(
I feel so torn. I grew up in the suburbs feeling so trapped and bored and out of place (non white dad, single parent mum, Baptist/ Christian mum who worked full time) I know it's probably changed.
We currently live in the inner city and it's everything I want but I have two kids, they want a garden. There's some beautiful houses on the outskirts of time but it's exactly like where I grew up.
In a way, deep down, I feel it might suit us better as we are that family, ok income, camping holidays, cinema on the weekend, garden party's. I don't feel I fit in where I am as there's so much deprivation. Drugs everywhere. Crime. It doesn't shock me as I work in the prison system but do I want this for my kids either? I really worry about cannabis and psychosis, especially for my son as I see it everyday.
I feel like I would be buying a 300K shack in the inner city to prove a point. Can't afford a nice house in the city, can't live in a flat as my ND dd makes so much noise. It's gunna be a house 45 minutes out of town isn't it?
First world problems I know!