G has decided that we should move house. Basically I think he's sick of the DIY that he's been doing weekend after weekend after weekend since we moved into this place 19 months ago. Which is of course understandable. He thinks we have raised the value of it enough to buy a big new house ala Canada, if we move a little bit (but not too much) further out... which is where most of my friends live and the difference between a 15 min journey to work and a 30 min journey to work.
It's all very speculative really because we have no idea what the value of this place is and until we do know that we can't know if it is worth moving. It would have to have increased in value enough to afford us a nice big place which didn't need work doing to it and didn't increase our mortgage very much!
To that end I've asked a realtor to come around and give us a valuation next week.
Meanwhile, these are his reasons for moving and they are pretty hard to argue with.
1. We would be happier in a new house with a more typical layout.
2. We would have more time to spend together as a family without DIY to do every single weekend.
3. The money we have aside to remodel the bathrooms etc here would maybe be better spent on moving to a better house.
4. We would have a neighbourhood more like Canada (good for the kids) although still reasonably close to town.
5. The kids could play in the back garden
The schools are pretty good out there... so that would be a good thing too.
But again as I said, very speculative. What G is hoping is that we've raised enough equity on this place to get away with tarting up the various unfinished projects that we have going on without having to start any other major ones like bathrooms. And then move. I don't know if this is realistic, but I guess we'll see!
Posted by katie at March 8, 2007 08:23 PM