Did you buy and house you liked but not loved?

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I saw a house yesterday which I liked, I'm not sure if I loved it though. DH is coming with me tomorrow for a second viewing.

Part of me wonders if I am 'settling' because I want stay close to DS's school. I don't want to move him so am trying to stay nearby but its proving difficult as it is in a slightly crappy area. The slightly nicer areas just outside are not having much come up for sale at all and some of them are really expensive.

I don't want to settle but I am wondering if I need to adjust what I am looking for or just wait?

Secondary school 9 years ahead isn't a bit to early to worry about?
I nearly moved myself 2 miles from current primary away but did not want to subject myself to driving 2 miles every day for the next 8 years (2 miles in London - lots of traffic) and so glad that I did not. Secondaries are VERY important but I will think of that when my DC1 approaches Y5.

I didn't love my house when I bought but it ticked all the boxes and is everyone else's dream (for the area and the budget). Almost 5 years on I am slowly falling in love with it (I think), helped by the fact that when I tried selling it, the buyers were tripping over each other and went well over asking price.

We lived in houses we liked,then our third move was to a house I fell in love with. It was the worst move of our lives. Next door lived a reclusive pianist and his elderly mother and the endless rows about his piano-playing at all hours led us to move after only eight months. I vowed to never fall in love with another house,but to look at it practically - does it tick the boxes? As someone else has remarked, a home is about more than just a building.

tbh I am not sure I even like my current house, right size, convenient, reasonably quite, I just dont feel it. I have loved one of the properties I lived in and one I tried to buy and venders changed their mind, I still miss the one I lived in and loved and regret the one that never was. Neither would meet my families needs now. The only regret I will have leaving this place is it was where my DC were born and our family home so the memories rather than the place. I wish I could afford to move

Yes, kind of. This house ticks all the boxes for what we need but I don't like it at all, it just doesn't feel like home despite having been here for 5 years now.

Yes this one. Still meh about it after 4 years. But we had been looking a while and nothing more promising had come up so...My previous 2 places I loved from the minute I stepped imto them.
Maybe I should just get on a remodel...

Of course .. Out first house I loved but now we have to stay in catchment etc so there is a compromise .. If I could choose with no parameters we would go further north as dh works from home . I could find a house I love there.. Soon moving to a new build which I like very much but I'm not sure I love it .. Maybe I will ..

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Might add new house fits the bill as it's in catchment for both schools with big age gap dc .