Well I guess it is fair to say the enormity of moving is hitting me now.
Never really thought about it properly but over the weekend it has become a lot more real. I know all the big stuff and have thought long and hard about the differences to lifestyle that moving to Shetland will involve but it is the little stuff. Like clearing out stuff from the house because we refuse to move stuff we will not use from one house to another.
So this weekend saw piles of rubbish and our cot leave. This is the cot that both my daughters slept in and we got rid of it. Now I know that logically it was just sitting up the loft not being used but still. I am also painfully aware that this house we will be leaving is the house we brought both of them back to.
Anyway I am still looking forward to the move. Been looking at some areas and found some very nice houses. Now things just need to move on a bit so I can start buying.
Monday, 25 April 2011
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Housing Market In Shetland
Having just started looking seriously at the housing market in Sheltand I have noticed a few things.
First it does not have lots and lots of houses available.
Second those that are available tend to go very quickly. Well they seem to if I am at all interested in them :-(
Third is that Shetland seems to love long low houses. Most of them appear to be only over 1 floor but pretty large on the whole. The exception to this is the big old ones in Lerwick which are gorgeous and over 3 floors but expensive.
I am enjoying looking now but getting a bit scared by how quickly it is all moving. Plus somewhere along the line I have to find time to sell my house, arrange mortgages and consider renting a place in the meantime.
Which is another thing. I think I found a grand total of two rental properties advertised. This is going to be trickier than I thought.
First it does not have lots and lots of houses available.
Second those that are available tend to go very quickly. Well they seem to if I am at all interested in them :-(
Third is that Shetland seems to love long low houses. Most of them appear to be only over 1 floor but pretty large on the whole. The exception to this is the big old ones in Lerwick which are gorgeous and over 3 floors but expensive.
I am enjoying looking now but getting a bit scared by how quickly it is all moving. Plus somewhere along the line I have to find time to sell my house, arrange mortgages and consider renting a place in the meantime.
Which is another thing. I think I found a grand total of two rental properties advertised. This is going to be trickier than I thought.
Monday, 18 April 2011
Beginning
I spent 5 months or so working in Shetland at the end of last year commuting up and down every day. This has resulted in an opportunity for me to move me, my wife and kids all the way up to Shetland.
I have had the good fortune to manage to get both my wife and kids up to have a look at Shetland and they seem to like the idea of the move. Since then it has been a bit on and off if I was going to be able to move mainly because it was not always clear when and if the job would be available.
This all changed dramatically when last week I was told that the job was available if I could move in ~7 weeks time.
So back round the fun of telling the kids we are moving, discussing with the wife and the realising that I have far less time than I thought to complete the decorating I had just started.
So the next few weeks are going to be busy. Very busy indeed and possibly the most exciting and stressful of my life.
D
I have had the good fortune to manage to get both my wife and kids up to have a look at Shetland and they seem to like the idea of the move. Since then it has been a bit on and off if I was going to be able to move mainly because it was not always clear when and if the job would be available.
This all changed dramatically when last week I was told that the job was available if I could move in ~7 weeks time.
So back round the fun of telling the kids we are moving, discussing with the wife and the realising that I have far less time than I thought to complete the decorating I had just started.
So the next few weeks are going to be busy. Very busy indeed and possibly the most exciting and stressful of my life.
D
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