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.

   Truthfully, this wasn't her forever house. She didn't want to raise her children here.

   2017, Jane Porter, Miracle on Chance Avenue, page 123

   3 more examples

   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.

   1994, Darrell Sifford, What Do You Think, page 55

   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.

   2015, Skye Taylor, Trusting Will, 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.

   2019, Keith Mestrich, Mark A. Pinsky, Organized Money: How Progressives Can Leverage the Financial System to Work for Them, not Against Them, page 18

   Synonyms: forever home