in not wanting to move house?

[tiredAli]

DH has a decent job, but is getting fed up with his bosses and fairly average salary. He was looking for jobs around where we live now, but not many came up. We decided a couple of months ago to widen his search area to give him more choice.
He's been shortlisted for a job that's close to one of the areas we thought we'd like to live in. This move will be the 'one', nice house in a decent village dream family home, stay forever sort of thing.
The problem is, if he gets this job, we can't afford that sort of house because the area is very expensive. I think we'd end up in something that's only half way to what we'd really want.
Basically, there's a lot I like about where we live now, not least because ds is very happy in a super nursery and friends and family are quite close. I don't want to give that up for what seems to be too many compromises.
I have no idea how to tell him this.

Could you rent in the new area for a while? It would leave your house options open, especially as a lot of people think that house prices are going to continue going down.

(I have to admit though that we have moved a LOT in the past couple of years and I'm getting a bit grumpy about DH wanting to move to yet another area, where I then need to make new friends all over again^.)

it sounds like, although you say you both decided to widen the search area, you haven't actually bought in to moving out of the area, or you've changed your mind when faced with the reality of it.

how unhappy is your dh in his job? what i mean is, how important is it to him that he moves?

is there an area near to the new job in which you could afford your forever house?

in your position, i'd be thinking about priorities. what is most important for you all as a family?

I'm not keen on renting. There's going to be so much to organise that if we do it, we do it all in one hit.
lalaa, I think I am happy to move - it's just the area this particular job is in.
The golden question - how unhappy is dh. Well. I think he's got a nice job. They've been very supportive, it's ironically in a great location but now he's made his mind up he wants out, I think he sees more bad about than good.
In terms of areas - well, not really. He travels for about an hour each way now and to afford our house he'd need to do about the same journey, and more likely, more than.
I don't want to seem unsupportive, or that I'm holding him back - but I really think he might see it that way.