So… I had another conversation with my parents last night about moving into a bigger/better house. The one we have now (and have had for 18 years) is fine, but there are an increasing number of problems with it (wet basement, water leaks, etc.). Now that my parents know that I’m really not opposed to living in a new house, we might actually do something about it.
We’re getting new kitchen cabinets sometime in the next couple of weeks and hopefully (this has been on hold for a couple of years thanks to a non-responsive contractor) our new deck door will be fitted in. The kitchen floor’s getting kind of soft, too, in places, so we’ll need to have some of that replaced. After we get that resolved, we might consider moving.
I really am beginning to consider the option. I mean, the house we have now is really too small for what we need and it’s also very dark. As I told my parents yesterday, it kind of depresses me and I like my dorm room better than my house; there’s dark panelling in a few places at home and it really makes it feel small. If we can find a nice (not big, just nice) house with a couple/few more rooms than what we have now and also one that is newer and has less problems, I think there’s a good chance we’ll pack our bags for the first time since I was one.
I’d like to stay in my town; I really like it. There are a lot of new developments going up with some houses upwards of $400k, and that’s just not for us. They’re huge houses and we don’t need that. We just need some sort of extended ranch-type house that has some room for storage, some better closets, hopefully a dry basement, and other stuff like that. I think we’ll be able to find something like that.