What, if anything, did you compromise on when you moved?

[Horriblewoman]

We're in the early stages of selling our first house and have been told it will sell quickly due to nothing else being comparable in the market in our area.

If we could extend out or up we wouldn't be moving but it's not an option and we're increasingly tight for space.

However nothing is coming on the market that we've seen that tempts us at all in our area. Or would have significant compromise on some of the things we take for granted (off street parking and a garage in London, close to the overground).

If you compromised was it worth it?! Do you still miss bits of your old places?

No utility room. No internal door to integral garage. North facing garden. A-Road close. (Been in 7mths)

Not regretted as we are in a gorgeous location and the new build is stunning. We can't really hear the road as they put in special glazing. The garden gets more sun than we thought, though not on the patio. The only niggle is not having a utility room as the integrated washer/dryer in the kitchen didn't work out. It's noisy, only dries 1/2 a load and takes many hours... so we've struggled with washing.

We’re looking at the minute and trying to weigh up the compromises. So far I’m learning that I won’t compromise on parking, being detached, being massively overlook (currently over looked by 5 houses) and location which has a rather narrow 3 mile radius.
So that leaves us needing to compromise massively on either price or the house itself. With not much coming on round this way I feel it could be a tricky search!

We compromised on garden-small. We didn’t realise the road noise would be quite intrusive. Near main road, although 30 limit but we’re aware of it in the garden. However, the house has character, is nicely configured and I smile every time I pull up on the drive. Lovely village too.

I went from large 1930s semi with a huge west facing garden, driveway, garage to a victorian terrace. I bought everything I said I wouldnt - small east facing garden, no off road parking and a terrace. I did however take 100k off my mortgage and now live in a beautiful part of the country with river walks and a community I feel proud to live in - I no longer need a large garden as the dc are teens, the road parking is no problems plenty of space and my neighbours I heard once when he sneezed 4 months ago.

I’ve always compromised (who hasn’t?) but having compromised on location first and then compromised on the actual living space in a different property, I’d say the location compromise was the harder one for us to deal with day to day.

We’ll be moving to a house on the edge of a new (planned) development. As in 3 gardens over from it. It was the only way to get the size of house and garden we are after.

Time will tell if we live to regret it! But the house itself and the location is great and we’re very happy with that

I compromised on location, and always regretted it. I was in a nice spot, but I didn't know anyone and it was quite cliquey. Now closer to friends and I love it.

Pretty much everything except location! But I am in London - tiny terrace house, tiny garden, no utility room, etc.

Garden for me, too.

In our last place we had a beautiful large south-facing garden which I really miss. Strange though, all I ever did was complain about the maintenance of it! Humans are fickle creatures.

We wanted to be detached after nearly losing my sanity at the hands of awful neighbours, and just craved peace and quiet. Thankfully we have that now, so well worth the compromise.

Our house needed/still needs top to bottom renovation but there is no way we could have afforded a 4 bed Edwardian semi right near the kids schools had it not been a wreck!

Upside is we're doing it thoroughly and to our own taste.

I'd quite like off street parking too, but you can't have everything!

Compromised on garden size for internal space and regret it. Lots of dead space in our house and I miss a decent garden.

Garden. Left a very private SW for overlooked NW.

As it turns out the current house gets plenty of sun all afternoon onwards, and we've planted semi-mature screening trees which should continue to grow.

Garden will never be ideal but it was a compromise we knew we could live with. In return we have a large detached with lovely kerb appeal in a super location. We love it and feel proud to call it home. Well worth the compromise.

Small garden. We’re by no means gardeners but I would like a bit more space at the back. DH dreams of the house behind burning down and us somehow being gifted the land! The small garden is slightly offset by being on a private road that was resurfaced 10 years ago so is ideal for bikes and scooters.

We compromised on location. We'd hoped for somewhere in walking distance of the centre of the city we live in, but this turned out to be impossible if we wanted off street parking, a decent garden and good road links.

We have no regrets, as we managed to get somewhere which is still in walking distance of a local centre with shops and restaurants.

Character and bedroom size. I never thought I’d end up in a new build but we did and have been happy here for nearly 20 years. I’d love a bigger bedroom and higher ceilings, but we have 4 (small!) doubles, 3 bathrooms, a south facing garden, open space at the front and a double drive/garage so I guess it was worth the compromise!

Light in the front room
Weirdly built, stupid "stuck on" bay window with a tiled porch roof across the front of the house. Add in it's on a hill with houses above us. Brilliantly sunny at back, by the time the sun has moved over the house it behind the houses opposite.

We're in the middle of buying a house that isn't quite what we're looking for. We're buying it because the location is fantastic for us and it's big enough.

The compromises are that it's semi rather than detached (which it turned out didn't exist in our price range and the area we were looking in), no garage, although we're hoping to install a car port and the garden is a bit smaller than we'd have liked. But I'm not sure realistically we'd have had time to maintain a bigger one!

We could have got what we wanted about five miles out of our city but that wouldn't have worked for us at all location-wise!

When we bought our current house we compromised on character (it's an 80s house) and the garden. The garden is heavily tiered and basically made of concrete and was so grim, I thought I'd have to move on after a couple of years. But 4 years on we've made it look really smart, with giant wooden planters filled with mature bamboo etc. I now think (and hope) we'll be here for 20 years!