NotSheep

…we should make an offer on house #1. The one in town. The smaller one.

An extensive thread on an email list last night resulted in almost everyone saying we should go for house #2. But I still think we should go for house #1. Of course if we don’t get #1, we could go for #2. But I think we should go for #1.

I think this because I’ve been thinking about access to activities for the kids. We’d be more likely to do stuff if we were five minutes from the recreation centre or twenty minutes from the arts centre than if we were thirty-five minutes from the recreation centre or an hour from the arts centre. We’d be more likely to visit friends if we had the option to ring Scratchy at work and ask him to bring the car back at lunchtime. Etc.

I’ve been going back and forth on the two houses all day, but that’s what I think right now.

I bet when Scratchy gets home he’ll have decided we should make an offer on the other one. Either that or I’ll have changed my mind about what I think. Anyway, if he comes home and he thinks something different from what I think, I’m going to agree with him anyway. Not because I’m a good acquiescent little wifey or anything like that (bwaaahhhaaaahaaaaa…all those who know me can climb back on their chairs now), but because I’m getting to the anything-is-better-than-nothing point on this.

The last time I said “whatever, you decide” about buying a house, we bought a house I hated. I sat and cried the night we moved in. It was adequate for our needs; there was nothing horrendous about it - but I hated it from the moment I saw it. And we never settled there, and we’d several disasters in the few months we lived there. But this is different - I don’t feel that way about either of the two houses we’re considering (obviously!) so I think I’d be quite happy with either one. It’s not a case of “we like #1, but there’s this problem” or “we like #2, but there’s this problem”, it’s a case of “we like both, and both houses have their good points - which good points are more important?” So whichever we end up with (and of course we could end up with neither), there would be positives. So if Scratchy comes home and says “here’s what I think we should do”, whatever it is he thinks, I’m going to say “yes, I think you’re right”. Let’s hope the shock doesn’t kill him