Very glad to read you've already found a new home and it's so true how our perception (and feelings) towards the place we've lived in change so drastically once a new future we look forward to is secured. While everything is transient in life, moving home in a city like London is always one of the most draining/exhilarating emotional rollercoasters for us lifelong renters.
I spent most of the post wracking my brain for a helpful suggestion or hidden hack to help you find somewhere* so I'm delighted to hear you've secured a place.
So pleased for you both. Now you can crack on and think of 50th birthday parties.
What a lovely article!- I’d missed the first one, somehow, so flipped back to that, discovering by doing so that (among other things) you’re inclined to be sentimental about hotel rooms you’ve stayed in for only a couple of nights (I *thank* them, and say goodbye…).
The whole discussion about what makes ‘home’ is a big and interesting one. And yes, like you, I’m luckier than many.
All the best for the next lot of happy times: going out from home, coming back to it and being in it. X
Ooh, thanking them is very Marie Kondo! I get attached to things and places in the strangest way. If not people, then events and/or the time period when I met them. I must write about *that* one day. Thanks for reading!
We are down to one bathroom again, but it's a very nice one, so I'm fine with it. And we do have a downstairs loo, so it's not *all* bad. Thanks for reading!
This is incredibly relatable, and not just the housing market shitshow but as someone looking to move jobs and going through equally Italian cinematic levels of melodrama over it.
I relate to this so much. Have always felt a nostalgia and closeness to properties in a way I haven't always felt about people (what does that say about me?!) But as much as I have cried on leaving a place, I can't say I've ever missed a place. Onwards and upwards for you both – I'm so glad you've found a place you LOVE. Also: 50!!! Amazing xx
Same, I don't often yearn for a place I've lived before – and it's never the same when you go back and have a look. It belongs to you at a certain time and then you have to let it go. Hope your cat is on the mend. xx
I'm so glad that you found somewhere you like. Moving is exhausting and I've done it more times than I can count - not just houses, countries. I have never looked back.
Very glad to read you've already found a new home and it's so true how our perception (and feelings) towards the place we've lived in change so drastically once a new future we look forward to is secured. While everything is transient in life, moving home in a city like London is always one of the most draining/exhilarating emotional rollercoasters for us lifelong renters.
It really does sap all your energy. Ugh. Thanks for reading!
Love this - so pleased for you!
I spent most of the post wracking my brain for a helpful suggestion or hidden hack to help you find somewhere* so I'm delighted to hear you've secured a place.
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Haha sadly there are no hacks in that miserable game! Thanks so much for reading!
Glad it all worked out 🫶🏻
Thank you!
So pleased for you both. Now you can crack on and think of 50th birthday parties.
What a lovely article!- I’d missed the first one, somehow, so flipped back to that, discovering by doing so that (among other things) you’re inclined to be sentimental about hotel rooms you’ve stayed in for only a couple of nights (I *thank* them, and say goodbye…).
The whole discussion about what makes ‘home’ is a big and interesting one. And yes, like you, I’m luckier than many.
All the best for the next lot of happy times: going out from home, coming back to it and being in it. X
Ooh, thanking them is very Marie Kondo! I get attached to things and places in the strangest way. If not people, then events and/or the time period when I met them. I must write about *that* one day. Thanks for reading!
Do you still have your own bedroom? We need to know! Glad you found your new home.
Bathroom, I think it was. Definitely luxury!
I'm obviously projecting!
We are down to one bathroom again, but it's a very nice one, so I'm fine with it. And we do have a downstairs loo, so it's not *all* bad. Thanks for reading!
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This is incredibly relatable, and not just the housing market shitshow but as someone looking to move jobs and going through equally Italian cinematic levels of melodrama over it.
Haha I think in a way I quite enjoyed sweeping round Kennington like a La Dolce Vita widow.
I relate to this so much. Have always felt a nostalgia and closeness to properties in a way I haven't always felt about people (what does that say about me?!) But as much as I have cried on leaving a place, I can't say I've ever missed a place. Onwards and upwards for you both – I'm so glad you've found a place you LOVE. Also: 50!!! Amazing xx
Same, I don't often yearn for a place I've lived before – and it's never the same when you go back and have a look. It belongs to you at a certain time and then you have to let it go. Hope your cat is on the mend. xx
I'm so glad that you found somewhere you like. Moving is exhausting and I've done it more times than I can count - not just houses, countries. I have never looked back.
I once did count and it was ridiculous. Takes a little more out of you every time, too. Thanks for reading!
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