Where to live? The grandparent problem

[NewpyMum]

We currently live in a flat in south London and are looking at locations to move to buy a house.

Currently, our parents see their grandchildren every week travelling just under two hours from the south coast. We love that they get this time with them and it’s a big factor we are considering in the move.

So option 1 is that we move to the south coast to a decent sized house that’s really close (walking or short drive away) to the grandparents.

Option 2 is to move north of London where we could afford a much bigger house and garden potentially with an annexe too for the same budget. This would mean we would likely see our parents less frequently as they’d be a 3-4 hour+ drive away but they could stay over when they did come.

Really we are tossing up value for money in a property or a smaller property but close to grandparents.

We don’t need to factor in jobs or schools as we can work remotely and are going to home educate (currently have a 3 year old and 1 year old).

Would love to hear your thoughts on what you think we should do.

I'm in the move closer camp. It's great that you are considering that option.

We currently live 2 hrs plus away from DS and his partner. We are late 60s and they would like us to be closer to them after a couple of health scares, and we'd like that too. However, the prices in their area are prohibitively expensive unless we downsize to a small flat and we're not ready for that yet. They have lots of ties to the area( both jobs, her family, friends) so we are resigned to the fact that if we really want to be closer we will have to take the hit at some point and lose our lovely little detached property and move to a flat.