forever house

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forever house (plural forever houses)

  1. A house in which one settles with the expectation of living there for the rest of one's life.
    • 1994, Darrell Sifford, What Do You Think, page 55:
      I was managing editor of the newspaper in my home town in Missouri — the place where my lifelong friends and my parents lived, where my kids could walk to the neighborhood school, where I had built what I thought was my forever house, where the golf course on which I played forgave my scattergun shots.
    • 2015, Skye Taylor, Trusting Will, page 18:
      The property, nothing but a ruined skeleton of a house and overgrown fields, had come on the market while they were still in college, but Ben had immediately pictured his forever house located there.
    • 2017, Jane Porter, Miracle on Chance Avenue, page 123:
      Truthfully, this wasn't her forever house. She didn't want to raise her children here.
    • 2019, Keith Mestrich, Mark A. Pinsky, Organized Money: How Progressives Can Leverage the Financial System to Work for Them, not Against Them, page 18:
      Her neighbor Betty, a retired corporate executive, takes a retirement package in her mid-fifties to invest in her forever house and lives on a strict budget to make her pension last for thirty years or more.

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