An Overdue Update

Okay, so the last you all heard, we'd moved into my in-laws' downstairs spare bedroooms. We're still there.

In the aftermath of the move, my brain went into "overload" mode, and hasn't shifted from there since about the end of March. Which means there's huge chunks of adulting that my brain has basically locked off and said "nope, not looking at those". End result: we haven't progressed very far in the search for a permanent place to live; in the meantime, the property market in my home city has become that much more expensive, so our options are even more limited.

We know what our budget is. The problem is the only things available at that price point are effectively "dog box" apartments built in the 1960s and 1970s (so they're needing a lot of renovation or maintenance) which don't have much more space than the area we're occupying at present, and it would probably send both of us stir-crazy inside about three months. Or there's "park homes" which come with the disadvantages of being located further away from where I work than where I currently am (I'm starting to get a pressure injury on the underside of my right thigh from driving for at least an hour each way two times a day four days a week) and which require a "site fee" to be paid on top of the cost of the actual "home" itself (basically, they're on-site cabins in a caravan park, and you have to pay the caravan site rental on top of the cost of purchasing the physical cabin), as well as not really being much larger than the space we're in now on top of things, and not being the best-insulated living spaces either (so higher costs for heating and cooling on top of everything else).

We're still looking (hope springs eternal, after all).