Who misses their old house?

SailorSam

The only thing i miss about my old house is, cleaning.
This one is twice the size, and the gardens 3 or 4 times as big. Much to big for me living by myself.
But this is much nicer, in a better area with better neighbours.

Andypandyboy

We don't miss either of our old houses, but we are considering moving
( about 15 doors down!) and it is the thought of passign this house which we love that is making us hestate.

This house is up a lot of steps and the new one has the same view over the valley to a stately home, but without the steps......We have lived here 30 years though and love all of our neighbours, so the house on this street is the only one we would even consider at the moment. Obviously, situations change and we may have to downsize due to age in the future but it will be a wrench.

phoebe1989seb

Do I miss my old house?

No......although on paper at least it was probably some posters' idea of a dream house - very attractive 200 year old, thatched stone house with third of an acre garden (plus stream) in a Wiltshire village. We restored it from an unmortgageable wreck to a stunning 2500 sq ft home with three receptions, five beds, three bathrooms and huge kitchen extension.

The downside was the noisy A road outside with thundering traffic that caused the whole building to shake. The village itself, perhaps because of the road bisecting it, had very little in the way of the community spirit that we had expected from rural life. Despite pouring vast sums of money and our own blood, sweat and tears into the restoration, after three and a half years I personally couldn't wait to leave. DH does miss it though.

One thing we're agreed on though is how much we miss our last-but-three house. Again we totally transformed it - from four flats to a grand 3500 sq ft Victorian family home - and were there ten years, but when DS went to uni we decided it was too big......a decision we've regretted ever since although downsizing enabled us to become mortgage-free at forty.

Although we love our current house - which is very special - and have a lovely village and great neighbours nearby, we've both cried over that previous one and sadly could no longer afford to buy in that area, let alone afford that particular house

tomtontom

iantojones40 wrote: »

I have a recurring dream about my old house, I come home from work, put a load of washing on, sit down in front of the tv with my dinner... then it suddenly dawns on me that it's not my house anymore and I start running around panicking trying to get my stuff out of the washing machine and clear away my dishes before the new owner comes home!

Based on that I think it's fair to say I miss it!

I've had this same dream. Apparently the dream is more to do with how you felt at the time and not the house itself. So that could be a positive or a negative, in my case my life was far simpler back then, more contented.

Is it the house we miss or the way we feel in the house - do we miss the "home" as opoosed to the bricks and mortar?

walwyn1978

We miss our last but one house, but not the house itself (tiny 2 bed terrace) but the fact that we had a canal running through the back of the garden and a river across the road. Swimming, fishing, rowing, the works.

Sold it to move back to the North (it was in London) and although we have an amazing and much bigger family home which we love, the canal/river combination and the views that went with it were amazing.

Don't regret our move at all, but you can miss something without regretting it.

Don't miss our flat or the rental place we lived in for 4 years between moving back North and buying this house at all.

seven-day-weekend

NicNicP wrote: »

We'd lived in our old house for nearly 15 years and until we saw this house up for sale we had no intentions of moving. After living there for so long and making so many memories there, I thought I'd miss the place and think of it often, but I don't! I love our new house so much I've not really thought much about the old place. I do think packing early helped me to detach myself from there though. Just wondered if others had the same feeling or a different experience?

We moved in September last year after owning our house for forty years and having lived in it for most of that (went to Spain for eight years from 2004-2011).

We thought we would really miss it but walked away without a backward glance and am so glad we live in the new place, never once regretted it, nor missed the old house .

steph2901

I don't miss my previous two houses but think I'll miss this one. I've already cried a few times and haven't even left it yet! But I'm sure I'll love the new place as much as here.

franklee

I didn't miss our old house for years until we eventually purchased again and I looked back at our old garden pictures - then I really missed the garden that we had made from scratch. We will just have to make the garden here ours over the next few years.

I still miss one of the places we rented. We didn't want to leave but had to as our landlord wished to sell. We could not have purchased it even though it was in our price range as it was a shoddily done conversion of a lovely old house into flats. The sound proofing between flats was pants and the lease a nightmare. The kitchen was along a wall of the only living room. It had a glorious 180 degree sea view, the winter sunsets were stunning and watching the weather move across the sea was fabulous, even standing out during thunderstorms. We will never live anywhere that spectacular again.

pogofish

I miss the house I grew-up in, the one that was substantially built by my father and where we spent much time surrounding it with trees.

I miss the small house I had for a while in one of the wings of a seventeenth century mansion in its own estate overlooking a highland firth. The owner was absentee/foreign and never put-in an appearance the whole time I was there, so myself and the two other residents of the former retainers housing in the wings had the home policies, tree-lined carriage drives and gardens of the estate all to ourselves. It was like living in your own landed dream. Opening the back window on a misty morning, stepping, cup of coffee in hand on to the tree studded side lawn and watching the deer coming out of the woods and walking through the low mist, barely bothered by my presence was a fantastic start to the day.

What I don't miss about that place was that it was majorly neglected and beginning to fall to bits. Not long after I moved to another project, the estate was sold-off and the house restored, to modern luxury mansion standards - Its very private now.

Kinski

I miss my old home, it was a six bed three bathroom two public Victorian town house, all the rooms were huge and it was in a busy part of the city, the kids had all left home and there was just the two of us in it. We moved last year to a smallish three bedroom one bathroom 1950's semi in a very quiet part of the city, we do now have a much bigger garden which is the one thing I truely love about this place, it's also only a few streets away from our first house but there's sod all to do here and I'm bored I have brilliant new neighbours here as well which I didn't have so much of in the last place. I've no idea why I've not settled here as we now have hardly any maintenance, a fair bit of money in the bank and no mortgage, I still want my old house back 😂.