I know I talk about it entirely way too much, but I just cannot stop thinking about moving. The thought excites me so much. Even if it never actually happens, just thinking about and mentally planning for a big move makes me happy. Planning what furniture I’d take and what I would toss. Trying to predict where I’d put what furniture if we did move. Looking at adorable dog houses I could buy since I would finally have a yard for my dogs to run around and play in. Just so many things. So instead of blabbering about it in every other blog post, I’m going to lay out my reasons for wanting to move in this post.

1) Space

I’m not sure how many times I’ve mentioned it, but my house is small. Like, very small. It’s only about 600 sqft, and that’s including my patio. This is shared with myself, my husband, our two toddlers and baby number three who is expected to make his appearance at the end of this year. Obviously there are many people out there who survive with far less space and more people sharing the one house, but I spend most of my time at home, so the small space is really starting to wear on me. If I can afford to upgrade, I would really like to do so. Not only would we have more space to breathe, but the kids could really benefit from having more space to play.

2) Yard

I don’t have a yard. At all. I have a very small patio, and then the yard outside that is considered a “common area.” I cannot let my dogs outside my patio unsupervised, tethered or not. So if I am busy taking care of the kids, the dogs will just relieve themselves on the patio. Even though I clean the patio off several times a day, I hate them going to the bathroom on the patio. My oldest dog was trained to go on pavement because she was not born into a very good household (she was left in a garage to use the bathroom and do whatever else) and now our younger dog has picked up this bad habit as well. It has made house training/potty training very difficult because they are just dogs, so they don’t really understand the difference between flat floor inside and flat floor outside. I would like to be able to let them inside more often and not have to sit on the edge of my seat so I can hurry up and pull them outside when the try to pop a squat in the living room after being inside for fifteen minutes. I think having an actual yard with grass will go a LONG way with improving their quality of life. Right now I try to take them out on tethers several times a day if I can so they can potty in the grass and run/play together, but the tethers are pretty limiting, and the dog park near us is just absolutely disgusting. Having a yard I can easily clean myself will be so amazing for them.

3) Neighbors

As you can see from my first crazy neighbor series… Some seriously insane people have lived near me. After those people left is when I started having issues with a different neighbor. So far we haven’t had problems since the second crazies left, but I really don’t feel like waiting around until I get another psychotic neighbor! I know you can grt bad neighbors anywhere, but our neighborhood has statistics against them. We have a higher rate of police calls for domestic disturbance/violence and and animal control than any other neighborhood in our area. Why? Because our neighborhood is the cheapest in our area and is filled with a bunch of young newlyweds. Some of these kids are literally teens that married right out of high school. I have no issues with mature teens living around me, but a lot of these kids are bringing their high school drama and immaturity with them. In fact, not neighbors who caused issues for me were teenagers. I’m just really tired of it and am ready to move somewhere with a higher rate of mature adults living in the neighborhood.

4) Laundry/housing company

We don’t have laundry hookups in our houses, so we use communal laundromats in our neighborhood and it sucks. Not only are a lot of the other tenants very inconsiderate with their laundry, but the housing company in charge of my neighborhood is absolutely horrible at keeping up with fixing our laundry machines. So you have people leaving their loads running in the laundry room for hours at a time, but none of the other dryers work, so you’re pretty much screwed. Some people will straight up take your load out and toss it on a counter if you leave your clothes in the laundry room too long, because it’s ridiculous to have to leave your clothes sitting wet in the washer as you wait hours and hours for a dryer to be freed up so you can dry your clothes. And it’s not only the laundry rooms that housing sucks at maintaining. A lot of apartments also have issues with vermin, pests, and black mold. The maintenance people will come look at a spot of mold and with seriously tell you it’s just dirt or mildew, then spray/scrub it with bleach amd leave. It’s absolutely horrible, and the worst part is they are guaranteed rent each month because it’s a military neighborhood, so rent just goes straight from the government right into housing’s pocket. We have no opportunity to deny them rent if we are being mistreated.

5) I’m too fat for stairs

This is kind of a joke… But also not really. Pregnancy takes a toll on my hips, so stairs is really hard for me the more pregnant I get. Not only are they hard for me, they are dangerous for my mischievous toddlers. I just really do not like having to confine the kids to our teeny living room because of how clumsy they are on the staircase. The neighborhood I want to move to offers single story homes, so I am really hoping that is what we can get.

6) Air conditioning

Our current neighborhood does not allow any kind of air conditioning usage unless you have some kind of doctor’s note stating AC is medically necessary for you. I doubt I can obtain any such note, even while being pregnant. Our house gets surprisingly really hot during the long summer months, so moving to a neighborhood where AC is allowed would be so ideal for us. Heat stroke just does not look good on me, and it doesn’t look good on my babies either.

So yeah, there you have it. Pretty much all my reasons in a nutshell. I think they’re pretty good reasons! Let me know what you guys think.