Man it's tough to leave my home behind...

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JoLLyRoGer

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We've been trying to sell off and on for about two 1/2 years now and finally we have a cash offer on our place that is exactly what we were asking. Now that it is real, I never realized how attached to this house I was.

The place we want to move into is much newer and more up to date on about 5 times the land and an awesome detached shop. I've already been pre-approved for it and I know we'll have no problems with that. It's just damn..

I brought my baby girl home to this house.. It's the first place we bought after we got married. My wife and I have renovated it basically top to bottom over the last 8 years.

I look around me and all I see is my blood sweat and tears invested in every square foot. And I mean we did it all..

New hardwood floors, new roof, New bathrooms, remodeled bedrooms, I screened in the porch, dug a fish pond, updated the kitchen, We built a stone courtyard in he front, stucco'd the outside, built a theater/pool table room, added an office. Moved walls around.. I brought a beautiful ash tree back from nearly dead in the front yard. we've done a lot.

As nice as the new place is.. and it is nice, I just can't help but feel like I'm selling out.

I'm being stupid, I know.. It's just 4 walls and a roof. It's a building and it doesn't care if I stay or go.

The upshot is the new place has much better privacy and is safer for the kids.. we live on a highway and so our location is what kills us. Wish I could just take this place and plop it onto that lot of land... It makes me sad to leave it.
 

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It's tough now, but once you're in the new place you'll probably think you were crazy for having second thoughts. Now you get to make more memories in the new place!
 

Modular

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I imagine that it's like this our whole lives. It's not just a house, it's a home. Memories and time that you spent there are precious and stay with you. It's an adventure - you'll make the new house a home too.
 

AMD64Blondie

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I felt the same way when I moved from Mom and Dad's house to my first apartment(not my current apartment) in March 2009.

Was so hard leaving the comfort of the only home I'd ever known.

(Now it's been over 4 years since I moved out.Wow,where does the time go to?)
 

EliteRetard

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My home for the longest time was a cesspool (literally).
The household sewage ran there, the worst was actually the bath/shower water because it would get all hot and steamy and drip from various places in the "ceiling".

Kinda nice growing up poor though, I can move into a cockroach infested apartment with the cabinets falling off the walls and think "this is nice". Id actually love to live in one of those steel shipping containers...just need to buy a plot of land first.
 

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It's tough now, but once you're in the new place you'll probably think you were crazy for having second thoughts. Now you get to make more memories in the new place!
Probably true. Looking back at my first house it was a great starter but in retrospect so small, I cannot imagine living there now.
 

OBLAMA2009

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i feel just that way about the house i grew up in, i dont think i could ever drive by there, id probably get emotional.
 

MarkXIX

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I know the feeling. Back in August we sold our first home that we bought right after we got married. It was built in 1978 and NEVER updated, not a single thing. Had one elderly couple that owned it the entire time after he retired from the Air Force.

We poured our blood and sweat into the place to remodel it. We brought our three children home to that house. We were there for over 9 1/2 years and it was hard to leave. Wife cried pretty good as we pulled away for the last time.
 
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