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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 16-03-2006 at 16:08:
Wheee!!!
Had the home inspection yesterday, and it's a go!
We're officially changing houses. Same city, same phone number, bigger house.
Shorter drive to work, but no car pool. Hopefully better school. Closer to school, definitely walking distance.
Closer to the better pool, same distance to library and park. (Different library and park, less walking.)
In a crescent, so no traffic. Not on a hill. (Just enough of a hill for good drainage, not enough to affect bicycling.)
Hubby will drive by a place doing real meals for busy people, as opposed to fast-food.
Grocery store and deli right by school.
We saw almost 40 houses, put an offer on one but withdrew it when $2000 of brickwork turned into $6000 immediately ($8000 to redo enough that it doesn't look like a patch), and who knows when other side will need it -- basically a bad batch of bricks. End result of that one: out $500 for the home inspection.
This one, though, passed with "typical for house of its age" colours. We'll have to spend about $3000 regular maintenance before we'd expected. The shower wall is likely to fail catastrophically, so that's moved from "in two years to make it look better" to "now". Same with repainting the window trim. The wood stove is absolutely not to be used (and clean out the old ashes, so if there is a fire the insurance company won't say we were using it).
We get the keys April 20, expecting another week or two before we move in.
We got it for a good price. Old shag carpet and kitchen cupboards. So much nicer that way; we get to choose our own colours, rather than paying full price for colours we don't like.
Current house, eeps. Still another week or two of work before we can put it on the market. Mostly clearing out the junk of 13 years, but a few cosmetic things. And a few hundred discretionary; will a sticky faucet turn them off if they like the rest of it?
I'm not sure who has my old address. Email me if you want the new one.
Wheee!!!!
Cricket
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Posted by meridianday on 16-03-2006 at 20:56:
Congratulations 
I also want to move house. I've discovered how high the chances are of my daughter being shunted into the extremely poor secondary school in a few years time, rather than the two rather good secondary schools that are also nearby, simply because of distance.
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by CricketBeautiful on 16-03-2006 at 21:22:
We've been known to have kids bussed past the closer school, theory being that if they're already on a bus a longer trip is still cheaper than turning walkers into bussers.
Hoping muchly that the Hanlon Expressway is a large enough boundary that they'll keep walking to WestWood rather than be moved to Willow.
The high schools? We've got three in the city, each one drawing from so many diverse neighbourhoods that I gave up trying to figure it out. The tech school is actually incredibly good, not just a "bird school"; it's got programs with local industries and you have to attend the academic half of each class to use the equipment. The others'll probably shift reputation twice before the kids get there.
(My high school was rated very highly when I started, and five years later I was told the universities still rated it highly (frosh from there got same marks at uni as at school, average frosh dropped 10%), but it also had quite a drug problem (that I'd been totally unaware of. I'd known you could probably get drugs there if you wanted, but that it was considered more of of a problem there than at other schools?))
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Posted by gatchgirl on 16-03-2006 at 21:36:
Congrats!
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Posted by Firebird on 17-03-2006 at 12:46:
Congratulations Cricket!
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Posted by imaqtz on 17-03-2006 at 13:18:
Ditto. Nice move!
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Posted by Metaliant on 19-03-2006 at 12:31:
I would love to move to a narrow boat and travel the canals of Britain but not only I can't afford it but I don't think I can go through the locks by myself. 
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Posted by meridianday on 19-03-2006 at 13:30:
The office I work in is right next to a canal basin, and the same boats are moored there regularly (including one called Spectre). It looks a particularly cold way to live in the winter, when there's ice all around and, during the thaws, you can hear the ice squeaking against the boats' hulls.
I rather fancy the idea during the summer though.
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by imaqtz on 19-03-2006 at 14:11:
I'd like to move to a mansion by the bank and wave as you both go by!
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Posted by Firebird on 20-03-2006 at 12:50:
I would love a little place in the countryside, with large fires that i can light in winter but given how things are that wont happen and I will probably try to move to Australia.
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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 20-03-2006 at 15:50:
I hear there are some interesting people in Australia.
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Posted by imaqtz on 21-03-2006 at 15:19:
You heard right matey!
and OMG FB!! dont even jest with me! Get your boys Down Under ASAP!! Your man knows what Im talking about!
BTW, has the whole "how the bloody hell are ya?" Aussie ad campaign furore died down in Britain yet?
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Posted by Firebird on 30-03-2006 at 19:04:
Lol yep thats died down and the ad is playing quite happily
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Posted by Ronin on 30-03-2006 at 20:47:
Congrats on finding a nice house.
I inherited the family birdbox and have no intention of leaving.
its got big rooms, a big garden (which could be developed though I have no intention of doing so) and is in a very nice area
I thought of running away from home and beccoming a beachcomber
Posted by Cep on 30-03-2006 at 21:00:
Ah home
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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 31-03-2006 at 00:21:
Yay! Though I have to admit, I like apartments. No maintenance. My idea of upgrade would be an apartment with washer/dryer connections. ^_^
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Posted by Metaliant on 31-03-2006 at 08:34:
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Sorry, did you say a narrow boat called Spectre. Is this they new secret base which won't be a secret for long and gets blown up by G-force at the last minute.
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Posted by Metaliant on 31-03-2006 at 08:35:
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Ad, what ad.
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Posted by Firebird on 31-03-2006 at 20:16:
The australia tourism ad. Where they say
"so where the bloody hell are you?"
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Posted by Metaliant on 01-04-2006 at 14:55:
Never seen it, ind you, too busy playing on my Xbox 360 as there ain't much on to watch on telly.
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