My wife and I purchased a house that is well within our budget. The house itself is beautiful. The problem is, we maybe should have done more research before biting the bullet and purchasing it - the neighborhood has kind of a bad reputation and while the house is affordable to us, something in the back of my mind keeps making me feel like we overpaid because this is not a "desirable" neighborhood (according to a family member/some friends).
Now personally, I don't think the neighborhood is bad. My neighbors are really great and I have met all the close ones. I feel safe here walking at night and whatnot. But I guess our city has a "bad reputation". The schools are kind of average/struggling they are rated 6's maybe one is a 7 I think. I knew this when I was buying and compromised on this fact because my wife and I don't have kids yet and aren't planning for another couple years.
The location to jobs and restaurants is very convenient. However my town itself does not have that many nice restaurants/entertainment options, though the town adjacent to us has all of these options. this "nicer" town is literally less than a mile away that has all the better schools, nightlife, dining, etc.
What would you do? I was thinking we can 1) stay put for several years until we have a kid in school someday and then decide if we want to move to a better school district... or 2) we should save up right now to sell and move into the neighborhood that we really want asap?
Or maybe I have just have post-coldfeet or something? I'm not sure if it is normal to feel this way after purchasing a house that we both really wanted really bad.
tl;dr wife and i purchased house in a neighborhood with "bad rep". should we stick it out for 7-8 years, or save up and move to the better neighborhood asap
Submitted March 20, 2017 at 04:28PM by hou3ljsd http://ift.tt/2mNP9cw
