Back into an Army quarter.

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Has anyone moved out of their own house back into a quarter? How did you find it?

Swings and roundabouts. The magnolia walls being the main bug bear and you also now can’t put nails in the wall for photos (or you can but you have to repaint the entire room on March out). Amey/pinnacle are as rubbish as ever at sorting issues.

But the community spirit is nice. I go to a welfare playgroup once a week and it’s so cathartic to go and have a good moan about army wife life with people who are going through the same things.

I have to say going back into quarters sounded very attractive when we needed a new boiler a couple of weeks ago!

Except it took them about 3 months to get round to looking at our boiler that sounded like it was about to explode everytime it came on!

@buckingmad yep its free but its takes 1-2 working years to get stuff done😂

Weve been in our own home for two years now and just getting over the itchy feet feeling.

@PuttingDownRoots are you/OH still in the army or did you leave entirely? What was the final straw that saw you leave quarter life 😂

our next move will be as DD2 starts school and we’re starting to think about DH leaving or going unaccompanied as our mortgages on our properties renew then too so might look at selling, buying our forever home and putting down some roots.

DH is Unaccompanied now. We settled when our eldest was 10 in preparation for Secondary school. She needed stability after 5 Primary schools and admissions nightmares.
He's got 5 years minimum now.

I lived in married quarters for many years all of them were very nice homes and well maintained, albeit getting repairs is hard work.(was CA when last in a quarter)

My husband was offered a great posting, but would of meant back into quarters or him in the mess and commuting, so he declined it.

But if I had no choice it wouldn't be an issue.

Thanks all. I know there are positives and negatives. We are just about to remortgage and with DH deployed it has been a nightmare to get the documents and we have ended up going from 2.3% to a tracker mortgage. I am just a bit nervous about going back to one bathroom and the boiler always breaking down in October…