Old Enough to Know Better

I think house buying should be done after you've lived long enough to know what to look for. The first house we bought when we first got married was right in the same neighborhood as we both grew up. Our second house was an impulse move to be 'away from it all' in the country but still in the relative 'neck of the woods' where we grew up. If I had to do it again, although moving is not one of my favorite pastimes, I'd pick something like property on the with beach front view. Something more luxurious than just a spot somewhere in a city, suburb, or rural area.