Have you lived in the same house twice?

sheilavw

Myself and my late Husband purchased our first house late 1982. I was just 20 and he was couple of years older. It was a little terraced in need of full renovation in a village close to where I now live (I am widowed now and have stayed 30 odd years here happily). We paid just £8.750 for the house and sold it 6 years later for £23.950 to buy the house I still reside in. Ironically, a teacher who used to work at the school I do purchased the house some years later but again has moved on. It sold a few years ago for over £120k. I think back nostagilically to our little first home. This got me thinking has anyone moved, then in later years moved back to the same house? 

WIAWSNB

Are you actually tempted? 😏 

SarahB16

sheilavw said:

Myself and my late Husband purchased our first house late 1982. I was just 20 and he was couple of years older. It was a little terraced in need of full renovation in a village close to where I now live (I am widowed now and have stayed 30 odd years here happily). We paid just £8.750 for the house and sold it 6 years later for £23.950 to buy the house I still reside in. Ironically, a teacher who used to work at the school I do purchased the house some years later but again has moved on. It sold a few years ago for over £120k. I think back nostagilically to our little first home. This got me thinking has anyone moved, then in later years moved back to the same house? 

There must be lots of people who inherit their childhood home when their parents pass away and I'm sure many decide to move into that home.  However, I think what you are referring to is slightly different?  

BridgetTheCat

No but my grandparents’ old house came up for sale recently and I was tempted for about 5 minutes 🤣 before acknowledging it’s completely unsuitable for my current circumstances.

sheilavw

I wouldn't be tempted to move back, it's a terraced 2 up 2 down. Great starter home, no garden or parking which I have here. However, we had our first Daughter there so suppose it's happy memories

Gray_Malkin

I sold a house about 20 years ago.  The couple sold it about 5 years later at the top of the market, but weren’t very happy in their new home.  It later came back on the market at less than they sold for and they’ve now moved back in. I’d find it a bit weird, but they’re very happy.

Bonniepurple

SarahB16 said:

sheilavw said:

Myself and my late Husband purchased our first house late 1982. I was just 20 and he was couple of years older. It was a little terraced in need of full renovation in a village close to where I now live (I am widowed now and have stayed 30 odd years here happily). We paid just £8.750 for the house and sold it 6 years later for £23.950 to buy the house I still reside in. Ironically, a teacher who used to work at the school I do purchased the house some years later but again has moved on. It sold a few years ago for over £120k. I think back nostagilically to our little first home. This got me thinking has anyone moved, then in later years moved back to the same house? 

There must be lots of people who inherit their childhood home when their parents pass away and I'm sure many decide to move into that home.  However, I think what you are referring to is slightly different?  

My brother thought for about 5 seconds before deciding not to move into our late parents’ house.  It’s in a nice town, don’t get me wrong, but it wasn’t the right area, it wasn’t where he wanted to live, it needed a lot of work doing to it - and we had someone who wanted to buy it.  He now lives half a mile from me.

My BiL is anticipating moving into my in-laws house. That’s fine so long as he buys my husband out when the time comes (hopefully not for many, many years yet!).

Murphybear

BridgetTheCat said:

No but my grandparents’ old house came up for sale recently and I was tempted for about 5 minutes 🤣 before acknowledging it’s completely unsuitable for my current circumstances.

My grandmother had a little bungalow with a big back and front garden.  I always wanted to live there when I grew up.  The front garden had a big rose bush with dark red roses which smelled divine.  The nearest I got to living there was inheriting a 1/12 share when my father died.  The bungalow was sold and my share was enough to buy my first car, an old Fiesta.  Property prices were pretty low way back then 

KateBob

The house I currently live it was the one I was born and grew up in. 
After which I lived in rented and then brought a house with my husband.
My parents decided to downsize just as we needed to upsize for our growing family, so we brought my childhood home from them.
My son's bedroom is the room I was born in.

Slinky

I moved 150 miles away from my house to live with my OH when we first met. Three years later we moved back into my house as he had a new job 5 miles up the road. We lived there for another 15 years.

My left hand neighbour there had previously lived 2 doors to my right. They'd sold their house and moved back to their home town across the country, but disliked it so much they bought the first house to come up for sale again in our street.

bex2012

Yes as a child. My parents bought a big double fronted house that was unofficially split into two flats. They moved in downstairs and dad did the official conversion. My sister came along, they sold the bottom flat and moved around the corner. Sister 2 arrived and dad’s business went pear-shaped. The tenants of the upstairs flat had passed away, so the parents sold the house and we all moved back into the upstairs flat. That flat was ginormous, 4 double bedrooms, two bathrooms and a loft conversion. Last time i looked it had been turned into a series of crap studio flats.