What did you compromise on when you bought your house?

[Tinker]

Street?
Size of rooms?
Aspect of garden?

Nothing? (lucky barstards)

Ok

I wanted 3 bedrooms or more.

Detached.

Character.

Garage

OSP

A garden that had the sun all day.

I got...................................

all of that

and

3 receptions

but a dinky kitchen.

Tinker

Our current house just "spoke to me" it need loving and money spending on it.

Other houses I have just known, but this one didn't really, truly feel 100% right until we'd lived in it for a couple of months, although DH got the feeling the very second we pulled onto the drive when we first viewed it. He had to persuade me.

The garden. It is about 1/2 the size of our current one but there is a communal large grass area out the front where all the children congregate, so hopefully it will help with the children making new friends (and me meeting some local mums too). On the plus side the location is beteer and we are gaining almost 800sq ft more.

Love I can give. Not much money but can live with "eventually we'll get round to it." But I want one that speaks to me as well. I want to be prepared to kill anyone else who puts in an offer. I'm warming to one we've seen today but there's no love there despite ticking lots of boxes and being a lot bigger than I'd expected.

Like Twig we moved from a communal wasteland flat to house with garden, so overwhelmingly gained. But to fund that move we had to leave a really desirable area that has held its value on the market for many, many years, and was beautiful to live in and packed with young families and nice cafes, to an area I don't really like much. There is nothing major wrong with it, respectable street after street of suburban semis, nice immediate neighbours...but limited sense of community, lots of feral teens, park that is torched/vandalised on a regular basis, no soul really
Even in OK areas a park may be bad news tinker. Is it securely fenced, and are any of the buildings boarded up inside it (no loos/cafe/warden's hut anymore in any of ours )

We sacrificed character,period features, huge rooms & a utility for a 1960's box house in a very sought after location.

We did gain an 80ft front garden & drive,a garage & workshop & the nearest neighbour behind our back garden is 1 3/4 miles away in the next village.

And we do have a great garden. Not enormous but with real trees and shrubs and lots and lots of birds. Love that

2 yrs on I really do not like this house
I met another mum at dd's nursery the other day, they mved her 1 yr ago, we moved 2 yrs ago
The chapel came back onto the market a year after we'd viewed it (buyers had to relocate due to work and family)
Friend tells me her and her dh nearly fell out about it
We loved the same things about it
The dh's hated the same things
I even drive past it sometimes - it also galls me that it was £30k cheaper than this monstrosity

living in monocultural north liverpool

but i LOVE the house itself and it has a view of the sea

I want character ie old and that is either too expensive or not enough bedrooms or in wrong area. So, I'm going to have to compromise on that. Current house is lovely (to me) but too small.

Opposite a park = good or bad?

I wouldn't want to live opposite a park - lots of teenagers hanging about at night drinking cider and shagging on the climbing frame. Or was that just me when I was a teenager?

I compromised on loads of stuff, kitchen is tiny, no utility, downstair bathroom, tiny garden, no parking ect. But do you know what, I am so grateful and acutely aware of how lucky we are that I love every square inch of this small cramped house
My time has not yet come for a luxury(normal) home but it will

Think I know where you must be mazzy (north L'pool lass myself).

Park is really grass and trees and new childrens' play area. Quite nice and not too busy. May drive past tonight. Feral teens have to be less in number than where I am now though.

Ms Moo you might know where I mean. Hmm, was thinking "Ooo, opposite a park, how lovely!" Now am not.

are you tinker? where we are begins with a W....

we are opposite a park, bit lively at night sometimes but it doesn't bother me that much - i'm used to urban grain IYSWIM. being able to nip over there with DS at the drop of a hate compensates

Bought a wreck with a matchbox garden in roughish area, on edge of posh one.
Got lots of rooms/orig features/proximity to green space and tube.
Love it here now, it's a proper community. I know most people on my street which I think is unusual for London. But still hanker after a garden.
I'd happily live opposite a park. Streets full of feral teens/drunks anyway round these parts

ooh was that freudian... drop of a hat.

we previously lived somewhere a bit more urbane/bohemian (well for the North West) and I miss that, even the edginess that came with it.

Right, know where you mazzy. Nice there, big Victorian houses?

Well, Georgian actually, I'll have you know....you from round 'ere then?

we compromised on work issues
to get a big house near the sea which I love
DH agreed to carry on commuting and working in a well-paid but demanding job, instead of getting a job closer to home at a 40-50% pay cut

meanwhile I can work flexibly, be around for the DCs as much as possible whilst still working

I agreed that after 5-6 years he can leave work, take part-time or flexible work close to home and I will become the breadwinner
so he will get his time with the DCs then

we compromised on the size of the house and the garden but we chose a fab location - we have a park/playground round the corner but the house is tiny, the garden is miniscule and we are still in the process of doing the whole place up (and I'm sure we will be until we decide to sell again!)

having said that, we had v little money (in London property terms) and really had so little choice anyway

swapped a 100ft+ garden for a courtyard

bigger house for smaller garden - was worth it although ideally I would love acres of land and no neighbours (wouldn't we all!).

We moved to a bigger house, bigger garden, quieter road, off-street-parking...

...in Liverpool.