Poll of the Day > My parents are moving to a different house in the same neighborhood.

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Since my brother moved out and I am in the process of moving out, they decided that they want to downsize. With the housing market what it is they can get a great price for our house and then buy another house in the same neighborhood and pocket a few hundred thousand dollars. Is that weird? A bunch of my family lives in this neighborhood, so that's one of the reasons they are staying in the neighborhood.

Why would that ever be weird

No, would be weird if they didnt do this.

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What part is supposed to be weird?

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The house is like two or three blocks down from my current house. I can walk there in under ten minutes. I can practically see it from the end of my street! I think it's odd!

You're opening post makes it seem like a very reasonable decision to me

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I don't find this weird at all. We literally moved to a different house on the same street when I was in high school. It was a bigger, more expensive house with a bay front view instead of being on a canal.

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Nothing about that is odd. They get extra money and less house to upkeep.

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My parents did it when I was a kid.

Basically, as their finances improved, they wanted to move to a larger house. But they didn't want to move out of the neighborhood because most of their friends and close relatives lived right there. So they just moved like four streets over.

I could see an older couple who are done having kids downsizing for the opposite reason, saving money and making it less of a hassle to clean/maintain the house because it's smaller. I could also see older couples wanting to move out of a house with an upstairs to a one-story house so they don't need to constantly climb stairs if they have health issues. But they might not want to move out of the neighborhood, because they're happy enough there, know everyone there, or otherwise just don't want to go somewhere else.
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