We moved to a new town and bought a house here about six months ago and this was a big one for us. The place we ended up buying is nice enough, we could live here for 5 or 10 or 15 years, probably. The kitchen is smaller that we'd like and not as nice. It gets crowded with two people and unusable with three. It's only a 1-car garage, so a 2nd car needs to be parked on the driveway and we'll need to juggle cars if one gets blocked in.
Despite those and other downsides it is literally across the street from the primary school the kids will start attending in January. Which means no "drive kids to school every single morning, wait in the drop-off line, wait in the pick-up line" for years and years and years. Which is, what?, somewhere between 30-50 minutes a day saved. You could think of it as time=money and it is thousands of dollars a year. But it is also just one less hassle in a life of hassles.
But for real feels like we made a very similar decision regarding tradeoffs. While our little guy won’t be in school for a few more years we are looking forward to walking him over vs having to drive!
> Get real about your trade-offs
We moved to a new town and bought a house here about six months ago and this was a big one for us. The place we ended up buying is nice enough, we could live here for 5 or 10 or 15 years, probably. The kitchen is smaller that we'd like and not as nice. It gets crowded with two people and unusable with three. It's only a 1-car garage, so a 2nd car needs to be parked on the driveway and we'll need to juggle cars if one gets blocked in.
Despite those and other downsides it is literally across the street from the primary school the kids will start attending in January. Which means no "drive kids to school every single morning, wait in the drop-off line, wait in the pick-up line" for years and years and years. Which is, what?, somewhere between 30-50 minutes a day saved. You could think of it as time=money and it is thousands of dollars a year. But it is also just one less hassle in a life of hassles.
Did you move into my neighborhood lol??
But for real feels like we made a very similar decision regarding tradeoffs. While our little guy won’t be in school for a few more years we are looking forward to walking him over vs having to drive!