[quote=scaredycat]anyone else have this experience; the longer we have waited to purchase a house, the pickier my wife has become. we’ve seen a bunch of perfectly good, decent, even nice houses that I would be willing to stretch a bit to buy. she probably would have been thrilled with any of them 5-7 years ago, would’ve been happy
with something half as nice. The longer I wait, the more it takes. I’m not really complaining, because it’s all theoretical and we’re ok where we are, just it seems like, the desired object is always a moving target.[/quote]

Women think of houses like men tend to think of women. They are always looking to move up to a newer, more sumptuous model that will do things for them that the old model no longer does.