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Why do people move and for how much?

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  • Cakeguts
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    We've got a 4 bedroomed house with a downstairs bedroom. It's the master bedroom with en suite and lots of fitted wardrobes. I suppose you would call it a chalet bungalow but it's not the norm as far as that goes.

    How does your style of house compare in price to a purpose built 4 bed house where all the bedrooms are on one level? The point is that someone has got to sleep downstairs so who does that? The parents or the young children?
  • Davesnave
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    Cakeguts wrote: »
    How does your style of house compare in price to a purpose built 4 bed house where all the bedrooms are on one level? The point is that someone has got to sleep downstairs so who does that? The parents or the young children?
    The last house we sold had a downstairs room which we used as an extra reception/office, but our buyers put their 12 year old daughter in it and used bed 3 upstairs as an office, rather than give either of their 2 kids a small sized room.

    Our daughter, who had the small bedroom until older sis left home, seems to have grown-up reasonably unscarred by the experience, but I think the truth is that many families are flexible about these matters.
  • GwylimT
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    edited 20 July 2016 at 11:18AM
    First house I moved out of as I needed to move to a different area to adopt my son, it was also a fairly small back to back so it wouldn't have been big enough for two adults and a teenager. So I bought a three bed semi.

    Had to move for child protection issues, so we rented the house out and rented ourselves in a different area and we both had to get new jobs.

    My wife stopped renting her own house out so we moved into that for a short time and continued renting out my house.

    A few years ago our son was born, due to his disabilities he has lots of hospital apppointments, these are 7.5 hour round trips once or twice a week. So we sold my house and moved so its now an hour round trip.

    We bought a two bed flat (oldest son now moved out) not as big as we wanted but as my wife is a wheelchair user you often have to take what you can find.

    Then a few years later another ground floor flat in our building with four bedrooms became available, so we sold our flat and bought this one.
  • suki1964
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    Cakeguts wrote: »
    How does your style of house compare in price to a purpose built 4 bed house where all the bedrooms are on one level? The point is that someone has got to sleep downstairs so who does that? The parents or the young children?


    They are very popular here because of the flexibility of the sleeping arrangement. Means as you get older, or become ill and can no longer manage stairs there's already bedrooms and bathrooms downstairs so no need to find a bungalow or flat to move too

    Great also for families with children, kids and all their noise and mess one floor, grown ups on another

    right now I have mum in the downstairs master, we are in the upstairs master. Our grandkids when they stay stay upstairs and the kids downstairs. Grandson will be getting his own downstairs bedroom when he asks for it. When mum pops it, we will move downstairs as we aren't getting any younger. And maybe the kids will move in upstairs - who knows Great thing about having flexible living space :)
  • Davesnave wrote: »
    People move for all sorts of weird reasons.

    Over the weekend, I met someone who wanted a lake. Try to buy a house with one of those in this country and it'll really cost, but just across the Channel, many things that are financially impossible here, become perfectly do-able.

    Not thinking D*ck Strawbridge - with his moat around castle - in France? (ie the recent tv programme about it).

    Duly bought for £250,000!

    My mind is still boggling as to why they wanted such a big place as that chateau.
  • phoebe1989seb
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    edited 20 July 2016 at 4:51PM
    We've got a 4 bedroomed house with a downstairs bedroom. It's the master bedroom with en suite and lots of fitted wardrobes. I suppose you would call it a chalet bungalow but it's not the norm as far as that goes.

    A previous house we owned had two upstairs bedrooms - no bathroom up there till we put one in - and three downstairs bedrooms!

    It wasn't lacking in reception rooms either - ie, these ground floor 'bedrooms' were really just that - as in addition on the ground floor we had three reception rooms, plus two bathrooms and a kitchen of course ;)

    That was a very old (Tudor) house that had been radically altered and rebuilt (literally taken apart and rebuilt elsewhere, lol!) over the years and the PO had used the ground floor bedrooms as firstly an annex for the in laws, then more recently as bedrooms for grown up kids when they came to visit. We used one as an office, one as a music room and the other as an occasional bedroom when my elderly parents came to stay.

    In our current house we actually use the good size master (of four) bedroom as a Summer sitting room, because it has a lovely sunny window seat and balcony overlooking the garden. It seemed too good to be our bedroom which is now a smaller room on the second floor. Luckily we have a large, room-sized landing that is our office, so we didn't need to requisition a bedroom for that purpose!

    Our last two moves have been a) to relocate to a different type of area and b) to get a certain type of house. We're into the Arts & Crafts movement and our current house was chosen primarily because it suits our stuff ;) Also, whilst at 2500 sq ft, our last house was slightly larger than this one, it wasn't detached as our previous three houses had been so that was something else on our tick list.....
    Mortgage-free for fourteen years!

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  • hazyjo
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    Have moved 7 times!


    1. Split with BF. Had to sell.
    2. Bought house with husband so sold my flat.
    3. Divorced! Had to sell.
    4. Wanted to move - can't remember why! Change of area I think, and a roomier house.
    5. Sold my house to buy a house with hubby 2.
    6. Divorced! (And a whole load of other reasons. I couldn't wait to get out!)
    7. Still there...


    BUT hoping to move again next year to a similar sized house in a different area. Can be mortgage free (losing over £100k on my current one) and I may be able to do 4 days a week (if they let me!).


    Good luck!


    Jx
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  • Davesnave
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    Not thinking D*ck Strawbridge - with his moat around castle - in France? (ie the recent tv programme about it).

    Duly bought for £250,000!

    My mind is still boggling as to why they wanted such a big place as that chateau.
    No, but he was discussed, as was his castle, but you know my thoughts about people with a previous career in media, who discover being green, make a career out of it and tell us how it's "not easy."

    Presumably he heats the place with fermenting cow poo, or something like that? ;)
  • lush_walrus
    lush_walrus Posts: 1,975 Forumite
    We've moved to suit changing lifestyles. When we were younger our priority was living in London in the area we wanted.

    We grew a little older and the noise of the daily market sellers setting up and night revellers leaving bars drove us bonkers so we moved to a quieter part of central London the place where families live and into a bigger flat.

    Then we started to think about family and moved out of London completely but to a small city that we could travel back in from.

    Now 3 babies later and more income and less work so less commuting we moved out to a village and a large house.

    So we have moved to be in the centre of life, to a calmer area and larger place, then to another city to finally a house that suits our family in a very quiet place. Personally I hate moving so there has to be a reason for us to move each time. My mother in law loves moving so moved every few years her closest move was within a year. Depends on you and what you are aiming for. Keep to your aim whatever it is and keep reevaluating
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