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I'm by no means young, though I would say I do my best to be 'young-at-heart'
But I love small cosy spaces. I really don't want to be cleaning & doing upkeep on a big house when it's just the two of us with occasionally a visit from one of the children.
So yes, we need a guest room (or maybe more than one), but I don't need a huge living space that must be heated all winter & aired & cleaned the rest of the year. >Sigh< It's the major argument I have with my Other Half. He grew up as one of a large family in a spacious house with three floors and he thinks that's the only way to live. I tell him that was a very different time, and all the costs of running a house were so much lower then. Nowadays it seems mad for an older couple to take on a big house.
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So yes, we need a guest room (or maybe more than one), but I don't need a huge living space that must be heated all winter & aired & cleaned the rest of the year. >Sigh< It's the major argument I have with my Other Half. He grew up as one of a large family in a spacious house with three floors and he thinks that's the only way to live. I tell him that was a very different time, and all the costs of running a house were so much lower then. Nowadays it seems mad for an older couple to take on a big house.
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I'm by no means young, though I would say I do my best to be 'young-at-heart'
But I love small cosy spaces. I really don't want to be cleaning & doing upkeep on a big house when it's just the two of us with occasionally a visit from one of the children.
So yes, we need a guest room (or maybe more than one), but I don't need a huge living space that must be heated all winter & aired & cleaned the rest of the year. >Sigh< It's the major argument I have with my Other Half. He grew up as one of a large family in a spacious house with three floors and he thinks that's the only way to live. I tell him that was a very different time, and all the costs of running a house were so much lower then. Nowadays it seems mad for an older couple to take on a big house.
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So yes, we need a guest room (or maybe more than one), but I don't need a huge living space that must be heated all winter & aired & cleaned the rest of the year. >Sigh< It's the major argument I have with my Other Half. He grew up as one of a large family in a spacious house with three floors and he thinks that's the only way to live. I tell him that was a very different time, and all the costs of running a house were so much lower then. Nowadays it seems mad for an older couple to take on a big house.
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Here you go. You get a central London parking permit and a view of Harrods. What more could anyone want? Well apart from a shower where you don't have to stand on the toilet to use maybe.
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Here you go. You get a central London parking permit and a view of Harrods. What more could anyone want? Well apart from a shower where you don't have to stand on the toilet to use maybe.![LOL](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/lol.gif)
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I agree with you, and we are actively looking for a small place in England as a second home or eventually first home. One thing though; we have got used to the luxury of additional rooms for our hobbies and interests. My wife has a room, maybe 15x12, solely for her sewing and quilting. Each of us has a room that we could call a "study" with a desk and our papers etc. That's because we live in an enormous four bedroom house and there are just the two of us! We'd have to seriously downsize these, maybe fit them all in the "spare bedroom" of a two bedroom flat or terrace house for instance.
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In the UK our house & garden was nicely sized for our family of teenagers & dog. But once the teenagers left home it was so much work. So I believed that moving across the ocean was a chance to down-size in a reasonable fashion. But...maybe it gets too hard to go back to a smaller living space once you've got used to lots of space to stretch out.
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Nice and grateful discussion. I really enjoyed it.
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