It appears the majority of you would prefer acreage to suburbia, i dont know why but im a bit surprised with that.
Maybe the convenience of being near town would outway the lifestyle so to speak.

My kids are happy here, but this all they no so as far as their concerned this in home, kwim. I grew up on acreage but DH didnt. Our plan after buying our first home was always to end up on acreage so we are were we want to be. Its just the house issue that annoys us both now, and especially since now the kids are here i think we just want whats best for them. We have lived here for 6 years now and when we first bought it it had nothing on it at all. Now it has paddocks fenced, cleared areas, and a shed we built ourselves.
If we did decide to sell id be sad at leaving what we put together ourselves and also the kids have their hand prints drawn on the edge of the shower wall so that couldnt come with us and DD heights are on a door jam (bathroom, only door in the place, lol) so that couldnt come with us either.
I keep looking at things like that and imagine how hard it would be to leave that, as small as it is its something special to me.
The other thing that worries me a bit about selling it that we would NEVER get this back again, we would never be able to afford it. I dont even know that we would be able to afford acreage again and that scares me as thats what we have always wanted.

Being close to town though would be better for us financially as it takes DH 1hr 20 to get to work, the shops and everything else would be closer, just everything in general, family to would be closer. The cost of living is really takeing its toll on us, especially with only one wage comeing in. But in saying that, thats how we chose it to be because neither of us wants anyone else to look after our kids. Its hard. I will eventually go back to work when kids are at school but thats another 5 yrs away and DH said that he doesnt want me to go back fulltime again, which suits me.

MONEY.MONEY. MONEY, its always comes back to damn money! :mad:

We have recently bought timber to put walls up to make bedrooms for us all plus we plan on putting windows in so we can see out. Im looking forward to that.

I should add the advantages of living here apart from the serenity. Dd can play as many tea partys as she likes inside, she can play hopscotch inside because half is a workshop so she can draw on the floor with chalk, she can ride her bike around the whole shed so when its raining she can still ride around, doesnt matter if something is spilt on the floor because its crappy carpet anyway. Think thats it.

Murphys Law hey. You always want what you cant have.[/