In 2015 my husband & I decided to take a departure from our ‘you only live once’ spendthrift ways & be sensible with our money. With two small children and an online business which sometimes struggled to earn us a comfortable living, we sold our first home near the town in order to buy a more affordable one in a nearby village.

“Of course it’s the right decision” I told myself, as I handed over the keys to our beautifully finished 3 bed semi, with its oak skirting boards, bay windows and granite worktops. We were putting so much less financial pressure on ourselves by moving & we wanted our children to grow up near fields and trees, not cars and shops. So many times though it didn’t feel like the right move, and the main reason for that was our choice of new house. You’ll soon see why…