Houses too big for a person's needs.

My brother and sis in law moved in with her parents twelve years ago as the 'olds' were finding a large five bedroomed house difficult to cope with and didn't want to sell up as it was used as a base for their large family. Last year the father passed away and rather than stay in the house without him, the mother has bought herself a flat in an assisted living complex.

My brother and sis in law are now scratching their heads over how they're going to afford to be unpaid hotel keepers for the rest of the family even though they adore the house and don't want to leave it.
They can't sell up as they don't own the whole house.

Be careful what you wish for.

phoenix

If you mean Bentley he has started a few threads and has come back to a few some time later.
May be he has not got internet facilities at home.
I am only guessing.

Frank

Thank you Frank , that's exactly what I was asking. Are his threads always like this, and does he ever post on threads started by others?

Just curious!

phoenix, I think he pops up with the intention of annoying Frank, but it has been noticed that the two have similar posting styles.
I have not noticed him posting on other people's threads.

Our 4 bedroomed house is the house a couple with a bigger house would down-size to so we are keeping it!

I suppose I could down size to a studio..........but where would my friends from GN and my sister stay when they come to visit me?

My house is just right for my needs: my bedroom, computer room, toy room and a room for visitors all upstairs. Downstairs the TV room, the book room and the kitchen and dining room. Could notbe offering my homeless brother refuge if I had a smaller place so he would be added to the statistics. I am helping the government by having a house with more bedrooms than I actually sleep in.

Our house is just right for us also,

Dining Room , Drawing room, Parlour , 4 bedrooms and basement of two rooms for me and "HIM + kitchen of course.

No way on Gods sweet earth am I going to change .

Why on earth should I ??

Pardon , miscounted , 5 bedrooms !

Hope you have a bathroom or two as well, Nonu!

OH YES, a bathroom , shower room and two toilets , well three if you count the saniflo downstairs .

I was too busy eating the brown shrimps I got from Waitrose {reduced I might add] so that made them all the nicer

At Christmas, Easter and several other times a year every one of our 4 bedrooms are occupied by son and family and daughter. At other times they are slept in by friends, and other visiting relatives. None of whom live close to us so need to stay over.

My parents retired to a 2 bedroomed bungalow and soon regretted it. Our children soon grew to big to share our bedroom and in adolescence, with a son and a daughter even them sharing a room was problematic. When my mother took up a creative craft that required table space, drying space and space to store materials the problems grew worse, In their early 80s they thought seriously about moving to a larger property but a sale fell through so they stayed put.

Of course some people do live in small properties and have no choice but to make glib remarks about houses 'that are too big and under occupied' just on a head count and room count is to seriously fail to understand the complexity of peoples lives, their interests, and family arrangements.