a swing and a miss

We looked at the house that I'd pinned my hopes on this afternoon. It was just too small. The agent then took us to another that was a bit bigger and now we have a dielema. I think my wife really likes this new place but it didn't grab me. I'm starting to think that it won't be our forever home that we move into next, it'll be where we live to raise the children and then we'll probably move again when we're older, either downsize or upsize down the coast or something when we're ready to retire.
The new house is about three houses from the end of what should be a quiet street. At the end of the road there bushland but it doesn't look like that there will be any footpaths through it and it is quite steep sloping down away from the road, it doesn't look like the kind of place the kids would go and play. At the other end of the street there is a park and then around the corner from there is a couple of ovals. To get to that end of the road you have to cross a couple of streets to get there, but again they look like they should be quiet streets. The house is north/south on the block with the living areas facing east. The lounge room is on the northern side but the kids bedrooms are on the western side so could get quite warm. I'd prefer east/west with the living areas facing north and the bedrooms on the northern, eastern or southern side of the house.
The house we now really really want is too expensive, we're still going to go and have a look at it on Sunday afternoon and we are also going to talk to our broker to see if there is anyway that we'd be able to get approved for a mortgage of that much. This house has a dedicated study as well as a dedicated space for the kids, it would be perfect for us. There would be a dedicated guest bedroom instead of what we were planning on doing which was using the 4th bedroom as a study and putting a sofa bed or something like that in there.
It's really doing our heads in at the moment becuase we can't quite afford what we know would make us both really happy, possibly broke, but still happy.

Bomber
still wanting wanting wanting