We’ve thought about moving house for quite a while but it’s always been an issue of timing and unsurprisingly, money.

I think I was a bit defeatist about the idea really as I switched to working part time not long after our eldest was born so never had loads of money. We weren’t poor but had to be careful with what we did have and never really had anything left at the end of the month. Our eldest started high school last year and our youngest will be going next year, although to a different one (a post for another time perhaps) which prompted some more serious thought into the matter. While they were both at primary, it didn’t seem right to uproot them but finding a window whilst one was at high school and the other was about to go should be far less disruptive. It made sense to us – being closer to the new school and better links to the other would make life that bit easier.

We were adamant that we didn’t want to make a sideways move though. Moving house is expensive. And stressful. And expensive. Very expensive. So we didn’t want to do it only to have to do it again after paying for things like stamp duty so we wanted to get it right first time. So what changed to make this more of a possibility? My amazing wife started a new job was the main factor and combined with some research and planning, it might just work…