Displaced.

[Interloper]

So, as some of you may have already heard, Ophie and I are once again getting booted out of the property we rent and have already started looking at prospective new homes.

The news was somewhat frustrating as we'd previously been given the assurance that the owners had no intention of selling the property "for years", but such are the risks that come with renting.

I hate the feeling of being displaced, but thankfully a lot of our belongings are still in boxes from the last time that we moved (around two years ago now) and we should manage to find somewhere suitable quickly.

Anyway, what's your current living arrangement? Do you live with your parents, with friends or your partner, or on your own?

Are you renting, or paying off a mortgage?

Let's talk about the roofs over our heads!

[Finntroll]

Sadly Savvy and I are still at my parents house. Dispite being engaged for a year we're still having trouble proving to centerlink that we're a couple "in a marriage like relationship." Compound that with no one wanting to rent to university students who only work part time, and the fact that rent prices are steadily creeping upwards. Makes life difficult to say the least.

[Suzy]

I'm living on campus at university right now, and my parents are planning to move house before I finish university, which I'm not looking forward to.
Unless you count moving out to university (most of my stuff is still at my parents' house) I've never moved house, so I'm rather attached to my home (as well as the fact that most of my friends live near there).

I'm enjoying the freedom of living away from home (the best thing is that I can eat when I want to eat- no more breakfast/lunch/dinner: it's brunch at 2pm then a snack or a dinner at 11pm or 2am, and nobody cares that I'm in the kitchen cooking at that time! ) but I'm not particularly liking the current flatmate arrangement (the guy in the room directly next to mine [such thin walls] just LOVES his loud rap music with the bass turned up as loud as possible, Essex girl can't manage to heat a ready-meal without help and NewGirl still refuses to interact with people who aren't chinese; yes, she has shit English skills, but when you move to an English-speaking country it's kind of expected that you make some sort of an effort, not to mention that I don't see how she intends to pass a degree here when her English is limited to "Hi" and "Telephone!").
I am actually looking forward to the displacement of moving into non-university accommodation in town after the summer, hopefully with friends (being able to choose who I live with sounds really really good), but I'm fairly sure I'm only so comfortable with the upheaval because I know I still have a home back at my parents' house, in my old room (which is full of boxes, and has most of the posters and tie-dyed sheets taken down, which makes it feel weird).
Packing up and moving all my stuff doesn't sound so fun (so many things that need bubble-wrapping, or to be kept perfectly flat..) but hopefully the reward of moving away from certain flatmates (and moving in with others) will balance it out.

[NeroMercury]

I'm living by myself in a unit, it has many advantages, one of the isn't paying rent, since it's pretty expensive, but that's what you get.

I also live quite close to town so I can stumble home drunk and not have to walk across town.

I also know the mother of the landlord so it's all quite nicely arranged. Although I can understand to some degree what being displaced is like, Mother Dearest upped and left town and I had to find somewhere to live pretty quickly and a job to go with it.

[demigoth]

that sucks guys, hope you find somewhere good soon

we got booted with very little warning a couple of times when we were renting - the worst was a place we'd moved into six weeks previous being sold out from under us. we spent a total of eight weeks living there, it sucked rather a lot. i do not miss getting those phone calls at all

we were lucky enough to be able to buy a house a little over a year ago now, so after moving close to 20 times in my life i am staying put for as long as i possibly can having always lived in rental properties, there is a lot to be said for being able to paint the walls or hang pictures or do ANYTHING without having to get permission

[~PC~]

Partner and i rent. I haaaaaaaaaaaate it.

The place is lovely and all, but it's not mine.

I have recently discovered a love of vegetable gardens and fruit trees, but everything has to be in pots because a) our back yard is tiny and has no grass and b) because i don't want to leave it there when i move.

I'm also sick of moving. 4 times in 5 years is too much.

[Ophelia]

I'm also sick of moving. 4 times in 5 years is too much.

Ergh, that's pretty rough. We've been lucky in that we've only had to move twice in about...8 years or so, so we shouldn't really complain too much! But moving really does suck.

Still no luck with househunting for us, but hopefully we'll start hearing back from ones we've applied for. Fingers crossed!

[~PC~]

To be fair, one of those moves was for a good cause

[Ophelia]

We got a house.

It is awesome.

That is all.

[~PC~]

Where abouts?