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We are in a one bedroom apartment, and we are renting so no this is not our forever home. we do plan on buying a house eventually we just dont know when or where, growing up I travelled a lot and lived in different part of the world so who knows if we may end up doing the same thing.

I think we are. My dream would be to have a bungalow style house with a big front porch. But the really important things that I want in a house, like location and good schools, are here. Plus, I could always add onto the house to make a big porch.

I really love our location- we're walking distance from downtown. It's such a fun place to live, there's always something going on. Last weekend was the grapefruit festival- where they had a pancake breakfast, arts and crafts sale, and a chalk art contest.

We're not in a huge house, but I don't want a big house so that's fine. I would like another room so we could have a playroom, but it's something we can live without. Slowly but surely we're fixing it up to make it more "us."

Probably not. While we are in a good neighborhood and the house is too big for just us two. It's not big enough for the three kids we want to have and ideally would like to be in a better school district.

DH also wants more space and privacy away from neighbors...

If everything works out, it won't be our forever home, but we bought it keeping in mind that we might have to stay here if we don't end up making more money. It's our first house, but hubs' parents ended up staying in their first place, 35 years later.

@HabesBabe: that's what my parents did. They thought they'd upgrade, and make more than enough money to do so, but they're walking distance to all the good schools so they stayed. And now it's just 2 of them so they don't want a big house.

@artbee: It was a different situation w/ the hubs' parents-- they had their two boys, couldn't really afford to buy a better place (they did make an offer when DH was in high school), and now their kids are out of the house and they'd just rather stay. The schools weren't the best in their neighborhood, but I'm glad they didn't move, otherwise I never would have met DH! So we totally researched the schools in our neighborhood, even though we're hoping to move again before LO starts school.

I think we're home for good. Our house is big and our yard is a perfect size (not too big or small). Lots of room for improvements (redo hardwoods and update some rooms)... but the footprint is perfect for us and we love our neighborhood. I can't think of a situation that could get us to move at this point

Yes. We moved to our forever home 2 years ago and are now in the process of trying to fill it up with little ones! I love that we have 5 acres (plenty of room for our chickens, ducks, and future kids to run), but hate our kitchen, so we'll be tearing that out in the fall, and hopefully doing other smaller renovations as we go along (it's a nice house, but older, so everything is very dated).

Nope, we are buying a house right now, but our goal is to stay in there for 5-10 years. It's only a 3 bedroom, so (we plan on 4 children hopefully!) we will definitely need more bedrooms, and more bathrooms! (this house only has 1). But it will be our starter house!

Probably not. I love our little 1920 bungalow, but I don't want to live here forever! I want to live overseas again soon or maybe try living in a big city.

We are renting and have been looking for our forever home. With bidding wars and houses going for $100-$200k over asking it's been tough.

No... we're renting, but it's giving me a chance to cement my preferences for when (and if) we do buy a house. I'm finding that sunlight in the living areas is crucial, and I'd love a yard for the kid(s) to play in. A rolling ladder in a small library isn't imperative, but I think I might try to convince my husband that it is!

Nope. DH is in med school, so we'll be moving a few more times before we settle down. We haven't even decided on our forever city let alone house.

Yup, we are here to stay. The things I love include the location, that my dad helped build and landscape parts, that I can see us having babies and growing old without changing anything but the color of the paint in the bathroom.

We will be in (hopefully) 2 months, give or take!
We purchased a new house right around when we found out we were expecting. Before the house search we made the pain agony decision of where we will stay "Forever".

I LOVE our forever home because it has separation of public vs private spaces. 4 bedrooms, enough for family to come visit and we don't get displaced.
Open kitchen/dining/living area. A HUGE backyard. And it's in a great school district/neighborhood with many young families.

We aren't in our forever home. We figured 5-10 years too, but based on my husband's work situation and being too far from family, we'll be moving sooner.

We love our house and neighborhood, but will look for something out of town next with some acreage, probably another bedroom, and definitely more bathrooms!

The reason why we bought our house is because we could see it as our forever home. There's room enough to grow, has a country feel, a yard that's big enough for playing, but not so big we can't maintain it. We bought it 2 years ago and looking from the outside, it's a completely different house now - a very good thing =)

What we love the most is the location. It's an ideal place to raise a LO. There's a lakes nearby, forests, a nature preserve next to the closest elementary school. There's even a gated area where they let sheep graze during the summer on the way to the lake. All shops are walking distance, there's a hospital, a dentist, cafes. Once a year in September, there's a large market held in town, we get a lot of visitors then (it's a long running tradition - over 100 years strong). We even get German tourists every summer. So although it's barely a village by population, people are used to seeing foreigners. I look very much a foreigner and that's important to me. I love our little town!

But at the same time, I can now see us moving back to San Diego, my hometown. Not anytime soon, but there's always that possibility and as hard as it would be to leave our house, the prospects of better weather is something I long for. Maybe when our LO(s) are older ... who knows. Then again, we might be so rooted to this place by then. We'll see.

Well we're moving to a bigger place in 3 days (!) but I don't think that'll be our forever home...it's only a 2bedroom/2bath, and ideally we'd like a 3bedroom. But I think it's probably our "next two to three years" home, which is good enough for me.

We're in the process of buying our "forever home" - just waiting for closing on May 4 (everything else is final). DH says he's never moving because we'll never get a 3.875% interest rate on a mortgage again!
The house has way more space than we need for the three of us, but it gives us room to grow and still have private space. I'm really looking forward to moving (and getting out of our temporary digs in my parents' basement).