...I move into my own home?

Just wondering how many of you felt more settled once you bought your own home?

Bit of a down day today and I keep telling myself once I am in my own house I will feel much better. I do love it here, but living in a rental still feels temporary, still have half of our lives in boxes in the garage.


Anyone care to share their experience?

Nikki

I know how you are feeling. Plan was to rent for 12mths (14mths and counting) and by that time should be ready to buy. Not yet happened and if we build it will be another year renting. It is an area that must our biggest disappointment with our move, that what we thought we could buy costs $200-300k more than we can afford.
One thing I am aware of (from another poster)is that it is such a big task/project of finding a place to live, that when you do acheive that goal you might need something to take its place. For me hopefully I will get back into scuba diving.

Hi Nikki
i still get 'down days' and we've been here nearly 3 years, we've rented, bought a house, sold a house and bought another one!!!! don't expect too much of yourself, even back in the Uk you would've had 'down days', think of it like that!
take care and smile
Rach x

We're also renting, been here 5 months now. I know how you feel as I have down days nearly everyday! lol, we're very unsettled with being in Oz and I dont think renting helps one bit, when you know its not your own property and you cant do anything to it and buy many things for it etc, it doesn't really help. Plus we're first time buyers so the chance of us owning our first home over here are pretty slim given the current market!

We're back off to the UK for a hol in a few weeks anyway, hopefully that will help us to decide whether we're staying here or heading back to the UK for good once we get back. I would like to get citizenship first but not sure if we'll last that long yet.

Time will tell.

Hope you're feeling better soon anyway.

I think it depends on what your goals are - personally I've rented for so many years that I don't even think about buying any more. However I do feel better at present having achived the goal of a perm govt job, which was something I aspired to ever since arriving here. Its a very personal thing, but it is giving me a bit of a positive slant on things that I might be able to build on.
If you yearn for your own house, then while it may not solve all the other problems you encounter then it might at least give you a firmer base to build on

Hi Nicki
Can't help you with your question, just wanted to say living in rented makes me feel unsettled.
I didn't come here to live in a freezing, pink house with a yacky bathroom!!! and I keep comparing it to our the lovely house in the UK. But OH keeps telling me I have to think long term and will have a nice house eventually.
I find its best to keep active and do things you wouldn't have done in UK, its only short term you'll soon feel happier!
Do you fancy meeting up again? I am free some days next week if you want to chat?
Caz

dont know yet, have got one

do you fancy a natter hun? you know we all have days like that, we wouldnt be human if we didnt.

i will try you at home
keep you pecker up..............oh errr
xx

Renting is SHITE.....you cant do anything to the house....you grudge doing stuff and spending time on the garden cos its not yours. Once we got our own place the first thing hubby did was get the hammer and nails oot and hung pictures up lol. It totally changed us when we got our own place, but the icing on the cake is when you get your citizenship...they you feel you really belong.

I felt the same as you........ maybe if we buy i would feel more settled.
Not so sure if thats the answer. We moved into our own home after 3 months.
Been here for 2 years now, first 9 months i was so out of my comfort zone it was unreal
Since then i have felt as if i have been on a pendulum, for a while i tick along quite well and then it hits me with vengeance, not the homesickness but "did we do the right thing?"
We had a lovely house in the UK, close family and good friends close by, good employment and yet for hubby and i, it still wasn't enough why?

When i told my daughter (aged 10 at the time) we were moving to Australia for what we thought would be "a better life"
she said to me "why is it going to be better mum? your taking me away from my family"
Those words still haunt me.

So here we are, yes we have experienced some wonderful things that we would have never had we of stayed in our comfort zone in the Uk but is it/was it the right move......still sitting on the fence

After renting for my whole life i bought my first house in Petersham, Sydney at age 33. There is nothing better than getting home and knowing that you owe a bank 1/2M $ Just kidding! We love it, we decided after living in the eastern suburbs for the last 3 years that it was time to think about our own place, and my wife was also pregnant. We now have a little girl and our own place. I couldnt ask for much more!

Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply. The rental we are in is too small for our needs (family of 5), but we rent it off my Dad so we didn't look for anything bigger.

Sometimes its just feels like we cannot get away from eachother, and I hate the fact that there is not enough room for our stuff. My home in the UK was great and everything had a place, I feel like I am living in chaos sometimes.

Will pick myself up today and try to be positive....thanks again guys!

Nikki