How long do you plan on living in your new home?

Julia-Henry · August 2011

So how long you you think you'll be in your new place? When and why will you move? Will you outgrow the place? move for a job? or just plain have different needs in a few years? Or is it your "forever" home?

We'll probably move in around 8 -10years. I want to get both dc well into school (ds has a spot in a highly rated dual language program and dd is guaranteed sibling admission), and our house is in a great family neighborhood. However it's a little small for two teenagers and then I think we'll want to be closer to downtown. We may also be considering another career move for DH by then, which would most likely take us out of state.

Our home-buying is determined mostly by dh's work. We owned our last place for almost 5 years, and sold because of a work move at almost the exact time we had planned.

grahamsm3 · August 2011

For the foreseeable future. I won't commit to forever, but I am unwilling to set an end date.

Loppy19 · August 2011

Probably about the same time frame as you, OP. We are buying a 3 bedroom so that we have room for guests now, and if we decide to have another LO. It could be our forever home because there is plenty of room to add on if we chose to do so, and it comes with 1/2 acre. We don't plan on moving out of the town it is in unless a huge opportunity comes up.

Aerowife2010 · August 2011

We bought almost two years ago and figured that we would be in our house for at least 5 years. However, lately both DH and I have become "homesick" and I'd like to move back to where we grew up/where all our family and friends are. That is still at least a year plus away so we'll probably be in the house around 4ish years, or more if I can get over not being near our families/friends when we start to think about TTC and start a family.

ehighley · August 2011

We are currently closing on our first house, and we plan to live there maybe 4-6 years before we upgrade to something with a bit more space. The house is fairly small and will be fine for us for now since we have no kids. But after a couple babies (hopefully) come along, we'll need something with more room.

trawas01 · August 2011

We're hopefully closing in a few weeks on our first home, a 3 bed 2 bath. We plan on staying 4 - 6 years. Enough time for me to finish my doctorate and maybe a baby, then it will depend on where my job takes us. FI is a cop so he can move around more easily then I can.

Catlawdy_____ · August 2011

We've been in the house two years, we'll possibly move in the next 5-15. A lot will depend on the market. I'm happy in my house and we got a great deal (foreclosure) but if the market shoots up, I'm selling it.

We won't retire in our house, too many stairs and it's too much upkeep for our golden years.

Desmond&MollyJones* · August 2011

So how long you you think you'll be in your new place? Probably 10 years.

Why will you move? I want a house on a lake.

Will you outgrow the place? No, this house is huge. I would need to have 5 kids to outgrow it, and I think I'm done with one.

nsfw · August 2011

We bought it planning to move in 5ish years. With the crappy economy we'll probably be here quite a bit longer than anticipated. I specifically bought a house that we'd be OK growing into and staying in if life circumstances happen that we cannot move for whatever reason.

Our house is great. It will be years before we grow out of it. We'd move either because we want a larger "forever" home or if we relocate to Cali.

atlcatlover · August 2011

We intend to live in our house as long as we are physically able. Basically, barring some unforseen circumstances we will be there until we are ready to downsize.

We definitely won't outgrow it. We have no kids, and the house is huge.

5dogs · August 2011

We plan on staying for as long as possible, barring us popping out triplets or something along those lines.

KatiesCats · August 2011

We bought our house in July 2009. We planned to be here 5 years. It's been two years now and we're just undertaking our first big project (gutting the bathroom). We would like to get new floors downstairs and renovate the kitchen before we leave, which means at least 2 more years here.

We will move because we're ready for something new. I miss living in the city; we're a few miles north of downtown now, in a SFH with a yard and garage. I miss city living: being in a condo, riding my bike everywhere, walking to everything, taking mass transit, having tons of people nearby, stuff happening, etc.

We have 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom right now. We don't plan to have kids, so I doubt we'd outgrow this house. But we would actually like a few more square feet (this house is 1260) for the two of us, and especially more space in the kitchen (ours currently has about 7 linear feet of counter space...NOT enough).

Someday I'll live in a place like this.

Justinlove · August 2011

So how long you you think you'll be in your new place? Our plan is to stay until our kid(s) graduate high school.

Why will you move? At that point, to downsize.

Will you outgrow the place? No--it has enough space for a few more kids as is and there is a full unfinished basement.

jenn3745 · August 2011

We plan to be in the house we going through purchasing right now for 10 years or so. It's large enough to stay in longer if we need to but when our kids (currently unborn) start getting into their teenage years we think we'll want more space.

hillysuze · August 2011

We plan on being in our house for a very long time. Ideally, until we're too old to be able to cut the lawn on our own and move into a retirement apartment. Our house is only 2 beds but DH and I are both 31, no children and don't see any children in our near future or if we do have a child, it will only be 1. Our house is big enough for the 2 of us and our dog and any guests that stay over so we're happy.

silversparks · August 2011

We will definitely be here for 4 more years - hopefully for much longer. It all depends on DH's job, but we purposely bought a house that we can grow into, with lots of flexible space for guests, home offices, and future LOs to grow into teenagers. In an ideal world we'll be here at least until DH retires.

glittergal73 · August 2011

Forever. That's why we took forever to find just the right home, but I think it will be worth it. I like staying in one place and being near our families.

ungraceful13 · August 2011

We plan to be here until the kids, we don't yet have, are grown. This is assuming we don't have any job moves.

PeanutsCL · August 2011

So how long you you think you'll be in your new place? When we first started looking, we thought 5-10 years. Now that we've had such a difficult time, I'd rather just die in the house we're buying now.

Why will you move? If we do move, it will be for more space.

Will you outgrow the place? Eh. It might get a little tight, but I think it will stay livable.

curlylocks3 · August 2011

For the next 7-10 years or so. I think we'd move to get more space and a yard. We bought a condo because I'm not interested in yard maintenance and DH recognized he's busy enough as it is. All our family is out of town so we like having a guest room (which also has our desk in it) and if we had more than 1 child we'd outgrow this place. Its unlikely we'd move for work but possible that we'd move to be closer to family (both families are over 10 hours away).

Tweetysvoice · August 2011

My DH and I are planning on living in the new house till we start pushing up daisies. We are specifically shopping for a house that will be easy maintenance and few stair for the days when we get older and can't get around as good. I'm excited at the prospect of finding the perfect house that we can remodel to our liking if we need a change down the road, yet is perfect the way it is right now when we are both working full time and college students. We have two teenagers - One a freshman in college and on a Sr in highschool, so we have to make sure it's big enough for them to stay with us till they decide it's time to move out, yet not so big that we will have empty rooms with too much space when they are gone.

naylon511 · August 2011

So how long you you think you'll be in your new place? We bought 2.5 years ago and at the time figured 7 years or so. Now DH wants to stay until kids are out of the elementary school which is next door and because our mortgage is very small compared to what it would be on the next 'level' house.

Why will you move? Now we have one kid and one more. It's a very small 3BR starter home in a very HCOL. We bought a house we *could* live in 'forever' if we had to (small house in great school district) we we'd rather upgrade to more space.

Will you outgrow the place? yes, we have. We have one living area so it's the living room/family/playroom/everything. We have 1300 sq ft.

shanwalk2 · August 2011

We would like to be in this house until our (yet to be conceived) children graduate high school. We're in a great district and want to take advantage of that.

However, DH's job is not one that provides a "forever" mindset. If an *amazing* opportunity came up that would allow me to stay at home without drastically changing our current lifestyle - we would move for his job.

However, I'm hopeful to stay here for the next 25 years. Then, maybe a condo downtown....

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