The girls have moved.

[reddragdiva]

The agent has (a) verbally agreed it won't be possible to move back into this place (b) said he's not touched our rent this month and (c) started shopping us around his fellow estate agents saying we're ace tenants (because we're not pik downmarket trash, we paid the rent on time and we didn't smash the place up). Now we just need all that in a form other than verbally. Liz will try to get a confirmation email out of him today.

(He's a businessman. He realises he's never getting his share of this lease again, so his interest is to escape with a clean reputation. And if he had a flat going himself, I'm sure he'd have suggested it.)

(c) is very promising news indeed. redcountess and arkady even looked at a place he pointed us at yesterday, literally around the corner. It's a single bedroom, making me suspect we'd kill each other with axes, but Liz and Arkady both say it's utterly lovely. I'll have a look on Saturday. There's a number of other prospects too. My boss has also said I can have a few days off when I need it, which I will.

We got our flat clean and it promptly self-destructed. There's a message in that.

Comments

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Marc and I have been able to cope in a one bedroom by making sure both the bedroom and lounge room is large enough for us both to have our own corners of space in each. So he has all his computer and stuff set up on a desk in the bedroom, and I have mine in the lounge, and that way when we need to we can both actually live in separate rooms.
I found that for my money, I could get a much nicer and larger one bedroom, than a dingy hole with two cupboards described as 'bedrooms' for a two-bedroom.

[juliet]

Pete & I lived in a one-bed for 18 months when we first moved in together, as well, & it was a very *small* one-bed. But the living-room was big enough that he could sit at the computer at the table, & I could be over the other side of the room on the sofa watching TV or playing with laptop or listening to music, & we wouldn't bother each other too much.

I think the implication seems to be here that if the place is big enough to have own-space for each of you when you need it, it may not matter much how many actual bedrooms it has.

Having said that, when we found current place (2-bed, but one of the bedrooms is quite small) it was Very Nice for P to be able to have a separate room for working in, since he works from home. And prospectivenewhouse has *3* which is ace & will mean we have a Proper Spare Room.

[reddragdiva]

Although we're under severe pressure to find somewhere, I nevertheless am reluctant to go for something I may have this sort of major issue with.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

True, but you and Marc are working different shifts at the moment.

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

We got our flat clean and it promptly self-destructed. There's a message in that.

One should never invoke the wrath of the gods by being overly-zealous when it comes to cleanliness around the home. Besides, a "lived-in" look is more comfortable. :)

Best of luck to youse[1] finding a new home ASAP...sounds like you've been having an utterly ghastly time of it lately... :(


[1] Hmph, LJ's spell-checker doesn't like this word. Don't they know it's Austrayan for "y'all"? :->

[vatine]

It is said that there exist demarcation lines in the US of A, where "youse" is north and "y'all" is south of the divide. So it's not just you Aussies who say "youse".

[mr-e-cat.livejournal.com]

we are united by idiocy and an inability to speak proper

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

like wot we do

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

Sort of. It's pronounced "yiz" in New England.

[angharad.livejournal.com]

Northeast US, maybe (I seem to recall some Kevin Smith jokes about same). I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and we said you-guys and you-guys's (for the possessive). I don't say it much anymore, though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

I'm gonna take that to heart, whenever Cameron's at me to clean up my shite.

But honey, the house will fall down!!!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

We got our flat clean and it promptly self-destructed. There's a message in that.

A message we're well aware of, of course. Perhaps a bit too well aware!

[reddragdiva]

"NO! NO! DON'T CLEAN UP THAT BI —" *SPLOOOOOSH*

[redcountess]

The flat we looked at is not exactly "lovely" but "serviceable" and "roomy" :-)

Flat out

[(Anonymous)]

Dave, go with your initial feelings viz this house biz. You're married, settled (oh no!) and have a job. I haven't read enough of your journal to find out what Liz does. If you were 23 I'd say take the small pretty flat, but by now I think you've earned the two bedrooms. If you can cope with a temporary situation for a few weeks while you look for something appropriate, go for it. I'd go nuts on my own in small space, let alone with another person. It all sucks but it will be over soon enough (yes, after a minor nervous breakdown, tears and much rude language). Hang in there and don't compromise TOO much (yes, it's London). Hugs and cups of tea to you and Liz (nice name), Sarah.

Re: Flat out

[reddragdiva]

I have qualms, but I will be taking the time to look at the flat in question rather than dismissing it out of hand.

And you should get yourself a LiveJournal name if only for reading, then you can read the stuff I post that isn't publicly accessible ;-)