The house we were renting was HORRID. Orange bathroom. Green kitchen. (think 1970s colours.) Single glazed windows. Bad area.

Our current home is nice, airy, large (for a 2-bed maisonette), in a great village, near fantastic schools, near a mainline station to London (for selling purposes only as we don't use this!), affordable (as it needed a lot of doing up) and, tbh, DH said that we couldn't have children until we bought and he wanted to buy.

I think the last point had the most to do with it, tbh. The fact we have a nice place to live is good too, but it was all about DH wanting to buy and me wanting a family.