What’s your crib?

[Grant85]

Very fortunate to live in the ground floor of a converted old sandstone property in Glasgow. Technically it's a flat, but really it ticks more of the boxes that a semi-detached property would tick.

It has a big living room and very big bedroom. 2 other bedrooms are decent size. But has a fairly small bathroom and kitchen / diner.
Also has off-street parking and a big garden and is all on one level (which is actually very handy with young kids and we have avoided several years of stair gate misery).

There's things we could do to improve it, in terms of possibly extending the kitchen into a much bigger kitchen / diner and possibly putting an en suite in the big bedroom so we at least have 2 toilets. In reality we don't know if these things are possible, of if they would cost so much money it would make no sense.

We really hum and haw between saving / borrowing to do these things and saving / borrowing to move.

Or else getting on with life and enjoying ourselves. I guess it gets to a point that life is too short to simply keep saving.

 

[jim8flog]

I live in a detached house bought when we had our first son . Needed a bigger house because I also worked form home and needed office space.

These days I would love to have a bungalow but where I live you have to have ready cash to buy one or to have already sold. Last one to come on the market went the day of advertising.

Location location location. I have lived in the same house for over 30 years because of it.

The only one to take some time to sell has a poor location. within the road.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

A quite nice but small 1918-built 3-bed semi - described as a cottage by the estate agents But actually just a small Arts & Crafts semi-detached house.

We thought briefly some 15yrs ago about moving to a 4-bed detached - but the step up in cost in our part of Surrey from 3-bed semi to 4-bed detached is enormous - so we stayed put (these days a 3 bed semi in a 'favoured' part of town will set you back £600k-£650k - stick at least £150k-£200k on that price range for the equivalent 4 bed detached - nuts)

 

[Robster59]

I live in a cardboard box at the bottom of a lake.

You were lucky to have a lake!

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Live in a 4 bed semi in Dorset and currently in the process of buying a 3 bed detached in Ireland.

 

[Basher]

(these days a 3 bed semi in a 'favoured' part of town will set you back £600k-£650k - stick at least £150k-£200k on that price range for the equivalent 4 bed detached - nuts)

Bejeezus!!! As we say up here in Yorkshire “Ow much?”
I’ll tell you for certain, no way I’d be relocating down south!!!

 

[Hobbit]

(these days a 3 bed semi in a 'favoured' part of town will set you back £600k-£650k - stick at least £150k-£200k on that price range for the equivalent 4 bed detached - nuts)

And the other end of the spectrum. Ours, fully furnished and all fees, less than £70k. The balance of equity from our previous house has made for a lovely retirement(beer fund).

 

[Wolf]

Bejeezus!!! As we say up here in Yorkshire “Ow much?”
I’ll tell you for certain, no way I’d be relocating down south!!!

Exactly one the reasons we've just moved away from the south

 

[tugglesf239]

Only on my 2nd house after spending my entire 20’s living on a pussers grey funel war canoe.

First house was a lovely 2up, 2 down in a nice(ish) part of Wigan

Moved in the the burbs 4 years ago to Standish.

House is a 10 year old 4 storey, 4 bed townhouse which backs onto a small lake, which was an overflow for the local resi.

I absolutely love it here. The view at the back is fantastic and we have resident ducks, swans, coots, drakes, Moorhens and even a heron.

Only issue is we currently have a rather large rat that gets in the wall cavity now and again.

It’s a lovely village and the only two negatives are the traffic at times and the fact that the forums resident Wolf has moved nearby causing the zoopla price index to plummet

Oh

And it’s a treck to a decent pub and that really annoys me.

 

[bladeplayer]

4bed Bungalow . 1800.sq foot middle of the country great views .. too big a garden 😕 lovely til needs cutting