Natalie and Valerie, we plan to do the same sooner or later. It's not a shining moment for our finance but maybe next year something will improve and we want a house for us only, with a real garden, lot of space and a garage because my DH loves to work on motorcycles too!
I don't know what's wrong with some people. Here there are 10 apartments, 10 families. And it's always a fight against each other, for stupid questions.
We stay out of everything when possible. There's an old lady spying behind her curtain all day long. And houses are so close to each other that sometimes I give up going out to check my plants because there's always someone minding my business instead of theirs!!!