House regret

[SerialMover]

Just that really!

We moved into our current house two years ago and despite having done some work to it (I do love our kitchen to be fair), I just can't stop looking on Rightmove for the next renovation project/wishing I was living somewhere else in the same area.

I sound so ungrateful as our house is lovely enough and in a decent area for schools etc (one of the reasons we probably rush-moved originally) but it just doesn't feel like 'the one' and I can't put my finger on why?

We now have 3 DCs so will need to do the loft to put another bedroom in at some point if we stay, but I just don't feel like this is our 'forever' home despite DH thinking that it is (unless we come into significant money).

Sounds pathetic but it's actually making me feel really down :-(

Has anyone else ever felt this way about a house?

You sound exactly like my mum!
She has never felt like she found her "forever home". She sends me rightmove links and floor plans of new builds every week! It's like her secret obsession.. She's always been like that and will never stop looking for where the grass is greener. We've all gotten used to it, but we do love her house and I'd be devastated if she moved. How does your family think about your house?

Oh god HoneyBloom this is my biggest fear! I think I am a tiny bit Rightmove obsessed.

Our DCs are still too little really to care, although they seem happy. DH is happy with the house although he's the sort who just wants an easy life really- I'm the visionary when it comes to houses. I think it's not so much the house but a few things that I kick myself over, like this not having anymore extension/conversion potential like a garage to the side (where as some houses in our budget at the time did), the garden isn't ideal, no potential utility room etc.

I just don't see it as a 'forever' house but I think I need to get over this and start trying to enjoy it. Any tips for learning to feel grateful etc etc?

It's also annoying because we're in an expensive part of the country that we can't really move away from in order to upgrade on home

As a lady who's life currently is full of this......boxes and more flipping boxes I will be glad to settle in our new home. We thought with our wallet this time and have a promise that if we don't live it in 10 years we will move to a forever home then.
I think it's very very hard picking a home to live in forever so to speak, especially when small LO are part of your life, it's easy to think the grass is greener when in reality it's same grass different day. Do you have any hobbies at all something that when the desire to house hunt hits you can pick up and do instead? Try and find something to fill that time and void and see if it helps. Living in the south east as I'm sure you do from comments I can totally considerate on the lack of choice given the cost of housing, we are lucky in that our girls are grown and away from home so we have taken the leap and are moving from Hertfordshire to Somerset as it's much more affordable, in 10 years where will we be? Somerset? Maybe but who knows, sadly my daughter may have to move back in with us by then due to health issues....until then we will relax and put down roots and garden to make it feel a home
Sending a hug and a glass of wine

I don't love our house. But it was a good move in the circumstances at the time and with house prices as they are unless a significant amount of money arrives from nowhere we are staying here long term. Its a lifestyle house for us, one that is unfashionable but that we can comfortably afford so puts no pressure on me to work FT. Also moving is so stressful. I have an 'if we won the Euro millions' plan though. Obviously unlikely to happen as we don't play the Euro millions lottery, but maybe one day we will, and we will win.