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Are you in your forever home?

  1. Anagram

    eggplant / 11716 posts

    Not even close! We live in a super expensive area, so we are in a 2 bedroom condo. We are going to live here for another year or two, then probably look into moving. But even the next move will not be our "forever" home! I'm not sure I believe in those, though.

    Neither of our parents live in the same house now that we grew up in. My husband's parents have moved countries twice since then!

  2. creativemomma15

    pear / 1610 posts

    I hope so! We bought this house knowing we could expand within it and finish areas to make it workable. It is currently a 3 bedroom but our next hope is to finish the attic into a bedroom and eventually a bathroom. We have plenty of house projects to get the house where we want it long term but I love it and am glad we can stay here forever if we want (It does help that my dad is a contractor so we have help with house projects and a little cheaper cost there.)

  3. snowjewelz

    wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts

    We hope to be! It's a 3 bedroom so would fit 2 kids. It wouldn't be the biggest space ever, but I grew up in apartments so I'm sure we'll be fine!

  4. LuLu Mom

    GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts

    No, we bought this house knowing it was our first house and one we could raise a young family in, but we are getting the itch to move to something bigger and in a smaller town. It's a good house, but I'm hoping we will build our "forever" home next.

  5. Alivoo01

    wonderful olive / 19353 posts

    Our current home is pretty darn close to being our forever home; and it very well could be. But if our home plus a few of our "must haves" became available in the part of town we used to live in - we'd totally move in a heartbeat. We absolutely loved the location of our previous home. We just outgrew it.

  6. MaryM

    pomelo / 5129 posts

    Nope. But we're hoping to be this spring!

    I bought my house when I was single and got a two bedroom "just in case" I got married and started a family. But since getting married, we've realized just how small the house actually is for us. DH isn't a small person, so it just feels tiny. Plus I long for the day we can have separate bathrooms (boys are gross)

  7. Mrs. Champagne

    coconut / 8483 posts

    Nope. When DH is done his program at work we will probably build our forever home. (Couple years)

  8. petunia354

    pomegranate / 3863 posts

    Long term home? Yes. Forever? Probably not. We'll likely downsize after the kid(s) are out of the house!

  9. yin

    honeydew / 7917 posts

    Yes, but our forever home is full of problems that need to be addressed and fixed. Right now I'm stressed out and kind of regret buying this house because it's old and in need of so many repairs. We just don't have the time and money to do everything we want to at the moment. DH reminds me that we can work on the house but chose the location and that's not something that can be changed.

  10. Mrs. Toad

    persimmon / 1095 posts

    No, we're renting and will until I leave the military or get stationed in the area we want to settle in.

  11. Mrs. J

    pomelo / 5132 posts

    No. I mean, if we had to stay, we could, but we'd prefer a bigger house. We LOVE our neighbors and location, though.

  12. ShootingStar

    coconut / 8472 posts

    That's the plan right now. We bought our house last summer and we hope to be here at least until DS grows up. DH wants to buy a 2nd home in FL when we retire and keep this house. I'm not sure I'm on board with that plan, so we'll see what "forever" entails.

  13. chopsuey

    hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts

    We built this house thinking it will be our forever home.
    It's definitely our "for the next 16 years" home.

  14. cascademom

    coconut / 8861 posts

    Nope. We're planning on moving soon especially after last night. I'm so tired of our bad neighbors. We've outgrown our condo. I can't wait to have them not as neighbors.

  15. 808love

    pomelo / 5866 posts

    Yes! We intended it to be and would like it to be. The longer we stay the more antsy I get but I think it will pass and I will settle into this being our forever home. I am too practical to risk changing our original plan.

  16. Trufflehunter

    grape / 96 posts

    No. We will need to be out of our 2 bedroom house in under 5 years I reckon. Whether we go on to have a second child or not but especially if we have a 2nd. It already feels maxed out but I love it so much so that's gonna suck leaving it. I am really quite attached to our suburb so I think I'd like to try to stay here but buy a bigger family home. Only thing is we border the inner city and once you are looking at the 3 bed+ the costs go up exponentially. We would both need to work full time or very close to it.

  17. tysonja

    nectarine / 2217 posts

    nope!!

  18. Rainbow Sprinkles

    eggplant / 11287 posts

    Nope, not even remotely. I think we are a long way away from being in our forever home. I see us buying an "in between" house in the next year or so, living there for a while, and then buying again. I see THAT house being our forever home, and the home we eventually retire in.

  19. erinpye

    pomegranate / 3706 posts

    I don't really know anyone who has lived in one home for decades, or called their home that. We'll move houses again, I'm sure, no idea how many times. I'd love to give up the house and the suburbs, and live in a condo in the middle of the city when DH and I are empty nesters.

  20. Rocker2014

    persimmon / 1367 posts

    Yes...unless we win the lottery!

  21. AprilFool

    nectarine / 2591 posts

    Nope! And I can't imagine buying a forever home at 30ish. Seems far too long to stay in one house for 50 odd years. Even our next house probably won't be 'forever'.

  22. lady baltimore

    persimmon / 1196 posts

    We just moved in the fall and want to stay here for at least ten years. I can't yet say what we'd want different in a next house, but I also can't imagine being here (our first home) forever.

  23. marionberry

    pomelo / 5041 posts

    I am doubtful. It's a fabulous house and in my hometown but there are job shifts coming up in the future which may cause us to move. I'd be happy staying but not so connected that I would be upset about moving. There's a lot of renovation we'd still like to do to this house if it will be permanent.

  24. Rainbow Sprinkles

    eggplant / 11287 posts

    @erinpye: exactly! I've never lived in one house longed than 8 years!

  25. Baby Boy Mom

    pomegranate / 3983 posts

    Not even close! We are renting and will move at least 2 or 3 times before we settle down somewhere. Even then "forever" might be only about 15 years.

  26. SugarplumsMom

    bananas / 9227 posts

    That's the plan. But we've stalled on renovations and now I kind of wish we didn't buy a fixer-upper, although I know that would have been impossible since there were so few homes in our (small) neighborhood and we were lucky to buy when we did because we wouldn't have been able to afford the spike in prices after we moved in (and I would have wanted to renovate regardless).

  27. pui

    bananas / 9899 posts

    We just recently bought a new home, though we don't move in until April. Is it or forever home? Maybe. We're going to live there for 5 years and then decide. While it doesn't have all the "dream home" qualities, it does have a lot going for it like size and location.

  28. MsMini

    grapefruit / 4056 posts

    Nope! It totally *could* be, but it isn't our dream, so we will probably live here long enough to save up to build the dream home!

  29. travellingbee

    hostess / papaya / 10219 posts

    Probably not although I love this house. I don't want to live in a big city forever though.

  30. Cherrybee

    papaya / 10570 posts

    No. We bought this house intending to stay here forever and extend as and she we could afford to.... but the more work we did to the house the more the value increased and we can actually afford a much nicer house now.... The next move might not even be the forever home....

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