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....but we can't go back.
David was in England and drove by our old house, which was up for sale. Out of curiosity we looked it up online and spent a happy ten minutes oohing and ahhing over the floorplans (they've split the master bedroom into two! Turned my library into a kitchen!).
It's a three (now 4) bedroom semi-detached in a nice area (small village in the Hampshire countryside easy commute to Portsmouth). We bought it in 1995 for 70,000 pounds ( 123,000 USD), sold it in 1997 after doing some work to it for 90,000 (159,000 USD) and it's now, 8 years later, for sale at 269,500 (475,000 USD).
Our current house is three times as big, house and garden, and if we sold it we still couldn't afford that. How on earth are people buying starter homes in the UK? David/parents sometimes bring back property newspapers and the price even of a bog-standard terrace is ridiculous.
I'm waiting for the furnace repair men. The ones who came in April and told me that the furnace needed work. April. It's taken this long to get them to come back, and half a dozen increasingly irate calls to Sears, curses on their name.
My parents arrive from the UK on Sunday for a three week visit so I won't be around as much.
I'm going to start in on the drabbles now; got some great suggestions and I'm almost done one of the J/D ones.
Finally, to end on a happy note, Happy Birthday to the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moonlettuce! May it be the best of days for you ::hugs and twirls::
David was in England and drove by our old house, which was up for sale. Out of curiosity we looked it up online and spent a happy ten minutes oohing and ahhing over the floorplans (they've split the master bedroom into two! Turned my library into a kitchen!).
It's a three (now 4) bedroom semi-detached in a nice area (small village in the Hampshire countryside easy commute to Portsmouth). We bought it in 1995 for 70,000 pounds ( 123,000 USD), sold it in 1997 after doing some work to it for 90,000 (159,000 USD) and it's now, 8 years later, for sale at 269,500 (475,000 USD).
Our current house is three times as big, house and garden, and if we sold it we still couldn't afford that. How on earth are people buying starter homes in the UK? David/parents sometimes bring back property newspapers and the price even of a bog-standard terrace is ridiculous.
I'm waiting for the furnace repair men. The ones who came in April and told me that the furnace needed work. April. It's taken this long to get them to come back, and half a dozen increasingly irate calls to Sears, curses on their name.
My parents arrive from the UK on Sunday for a three week visit so I won't be around as much.
I'm going to start in on the drabbles now; got some great suggestions and I'm almost done one of the J/D ones.
Finally, to end on a happy note, Happy Birthday to the lovely
moonlettuce! May it be the best of days for you ::hugs and twirls::