I grew up in a village in the UK where there was one bus a week to market apart from the school buses - you had to be driven by parents everywhere or cycle which wasn't always practical as nothing that close and the English weather :-) So this and the fact I hated that I never had my own room dictates where I want to live (close to tram and train is a requirement now somewhere a car is not a necessity) and how big a place (would like another so would want a 3 bedroom). So for us is the expense of where want to live which will put a limit of two on us.

Also like tenar - all our closest relations are in the UK - so need to be able to afford to make a trip back there every now and again, and want to be able to travel a bit round Europe especially Spain as lived there for 18 months.

Mum2OneSweetBun - I also remember saving up for about 10 months my babysitting money as a teenager to get the Reebok trainers I wanted, and I did absoloutely love those trainers and wore them till they fell apart.