Question of the Day, Friday, February 24

Good morning!  And Happy Friday! 

Easy question this morning: How long have you lived in your house? Do you plan to stay in your house for a long time or are you planning a move?

We moved in to our place on January 23, 1986. I think it took seven months for the house to be built. Spent our first night on the living room floor in sleeping bags. No fridge, but since it was winter, we put an ice chest out on the deck with milk and soda. We've lived here now for 31 years. 

I lived in two houses. My weekend house is mine since 2000. I've lived full time in it until five years ago. My workweek house is rented.

Although is rather tiresome having too houses (without many help to clean and stuff) I love living like this. During the week I'm close to work, on the weekends  I enjoy my family and my hometown.

I would love that my workweek house was a big bigger though. But we cannot afford it right now. If we would, I would definitely move.

We've been in this house now for twelve years. Yes, we may move again, but it won't be for a while.

I've lived here for about 7 years now. I have no plans of moving. I'm happy where I am

We've lived here since August of 1982. We go back and forth about eventually moving, preferably to a ranch-style home.

We've lived in our home almost 7 years. I actually took possession on my birthday, 2010.

We'll be in it at least until I retire, which will be in about 8-10 years (depends on how well I hold up lol).  Next house will be 1 story or, a high rise condo with an elevator!

I have no intention of keeping it afterwards. My knees can't handle climbing the stairs as it is and I don't see that getting any better.  Plus, the taxes are way too high in NJ. I'm paying nearly $10K now so that too can only get worse as the years go by 

We've lived in our house 25 years, (quarter of a century).  We've never lived in one home that long.  We go back and forth about moving, preferably to a one-story but honestly we have accumulated so much "stuff" that we are complacent in our clutter, lol.  When we first got married we lived a short distance from one of the Big 10 schools and would like to move back to that area.  Being close to a university has so much to offer since this particular school is well known for their theater and music program.  However, the taxes are astronomical or we'd pack up the clutter and move there tomorrow.

Almost 2 and a half years in my condo! I am planning on staying for a long time (unless I find a BF and get married or something.. which would probably not happen lol)

I've lived in this house for 27 years. I bought it four years after I was divorced, knowing that it would be perfect for a long time. It's all on one floor, except for the laundry, which is in the basement. My youngest son wants me to move into a retirement home, but I don't want to for several reasons. One is that I've accumulated so much stuff from my parents that someone (him) needs to help me sort through it and secondly, because I enjoy gardening as long as I can do it. The house is small, but it's got a fireplace, a pantry, two bathrooms, and a deck. I couldn't ask for more.

We've lived in this house for just over 20 years now.  It was a real 'fixer-upper' but it's finally home sweet home.  We've got no plans to move unless/until the stairs get to be too much for us in our old age.  

We have lived here since October 2002. Yes. I will be moving again after DD is done with school and goes off on her own. I am tossing locations around in my head and making lists of what I can and cannot live with. #1 on the list is whether I can transfer my job and #2 is climate. I WILL NOT live anywhere that gets snow. Ever. Not one flake. Southern California is at the top of the list. I also do not want to be landlocked. I need to be within a reasonable driving distance of the ocean. Hawaii would be a dream but that's not going to happen unfortunately.

I have lived in my house for 3 years. I don't plan to move but I thought that with my last house and the one before that so who knows.

Verna davies said:

I have lived in my house for 3 years. I don't plan to move but I thought that with my last house and the one before that so who knows.

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I've been in mine a little over a dozen years; there's no gun big enough, and no box of money large enough to ever get me to move.  The cats agree.

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I lived in my little two bedroom house for 23 years. I just paid it off last year. I would like to stay here till I die because I can't live any place else cheaper. The problem is the crime around here is getting really bad and the steps in my house kill me plus the upkeep and repairs are getting very expensive. Almost everything in my house needs to be repaired. I will have some repairs done but I can't afford to have everything replaced. I won't get much money when I do sell my house. 

I have a lovely rental-assisted apartment.  There is NO WAY I could afford full rent on anything half this nice.  Now that I am downstairs, I don't anticipate moving in the near future.  If all goes very well, I may make a move to Colorado in a few years, but that's not even on the actual horizon right now.  Just a "thing" for later on.

Winchester said:

We moved in to our place on January 23, 1986. I think it took seven months for the house to be built. Spent our first night on the living room floor in sleeping bags. No fridge, but since it was winter, we put an ice chest out on the deck with milk and soda. We've lived here now for 31 years. 

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I moved into our house at the end of March 1986. Left my beloved NYC to marry, which we did in May 1986. Our house is Victorian & it was moved on a trailer from a different part of town. Husband rehabbed the entire house. He will never leave our house. If I want to live elsewhere I will have to move without him.

sivyaleah said:

Plus, the taxes are way too high in NJ. I'm paying nearly $10K now so that too can only get worse as the years go by :lol3:

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That is a lot. We average $2K on our Victorian.

We have lived here 7 1/2 years.  I found out I was pregnant with our first the morning after we decided to put an offer in on the house.  Lately I find myself wishing for some extra space; but I love this house and I sure wouldn't want to give up the things I love about it just to get the other things.  When it was just DH and I here (and the cats of course) it was prefect and it'll be a perfect "empty nester" house too.  But that's quite a ways away. 

I've been here since June.  Yeah, 8 months ago.  And the husband is already talking about moving when the lease is up.  Sob.

(I want to stay here, it's nice.  And I want a fish tank.  I'm not moving a fish tank though, so I'm waiting until he says that we'll stay put a bit.)

I moved into my current house in 1987.  I probably won't move again.  It is quiet, private and the few neighbors I have are good folks.  There are several good restaurants within three miles - nothing fancy, but good food.    

There are very few feral cats around here.  For feeding, two or three small bowls of dry food a week suffices.  And I don't even know if I'm feeding cats or opossums!  I never see them.  I have had several local feral cats neutered and taken one into my house.  

love reading the stories of your home. I moved here on a whim. I have been in this home since march 2005. I moved out here to move away from the ex and not have to chance running into him or his family in town. Not that it was a bad relationship but it's easier to cut all ties when you pack up and move 40 miles away. I would like to move one more time but if I can't that's ok. I picked this location because of the scenery behind my home. There's a brook and a big area that no one can build on=I call it a gully. it is down about 10+ feet from the house so no flooding. The cats like it here. Close to stores and high way. Pretty woods. Love it here.

Jon wanted to build his place 5 miles from here-it's been 11 years lol. He's got a driveway put in, a septic but I think he just uses it to play with his toys=tractors/backhoe- boy stuff. He is always chopping down trees or moving rocks. He did a good job clearing the land and adding in gravel for the driveway. He wants to put a barn up and live in it and a garage combo. I told him to get a modular home and dig a foundation and stick the home on it. He wanted to put a single wide trailer on it. I told him no. It will have better resell quality if it's a regular house. He says he doesn't want to pay taxes..I told him to dream on.

Taxes in NH are CRAZY high. We have no income tax but they slap a big tax on a house. 5000-12000 is not unusual for 2 floor 3 bedroom 1600+ feet home. I should get a real house but for now my trailer works. It's a ranch style and I have a nice deck out back but needs to be torn down and rebuilt. I am trying to save money to have this done but mr picky pants doesn't like my ideas. He wants concrete footings put in and I told him the house was built on big big boulders=it will cost more money drilling down 3-4 feet to put concrete footings than if we just used 12" premade fittings that you just fill with concrete. He says no..grr..yes the house is mine=but sometimes I wish he would just finish his own darn projects and leave me alone and other times I understand he's trying to help..either way he was shocked I bought this house in a month. I told him I wasn't going to rent and was going to find a permanent place to live...I think his nose was out of disjointment because I refused to live in Wenham with him. I just left a bad relationship=I wanted something ALL MY OWN! and I hope he understands that...it's funny isn't it?! He slips out every now and then that he found a piece of property and I could commute to work from that property..which I should have not said anything..and guess what I said? I am never going to move again. Some day I will learn to shut my mouth.

If I could afford a house mortgage all alone I would buy a house but the mortages are so high with taxes I just can't justify it. Someday I would like to find a real house but for now this is where we call home.