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No flat yet, but tickets are bought
14 Aug 2022 05:19 pmWe are still looking for a flat, but our landlord has expressed his "preference" that we stay until the end of December.*
We continue to look. And live in a weird sort of limbo.
However, we have bought our tickets and will be going to France for 3 weeks in September. The kids are wildly excited about going home and getting to be in their house with their things and see their friends and family. They love all their new friends and their activities here, but they still miss what we left behind. Sometimes, J and I (who have been uprooted pretty much from day one of our lives) sometimes forget how precious our place is to them. We may or may not go back and spend more years in this place--and we have prepared the kids for that--but for now it is their touchstone, their happy place, their home.
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* We signed a one-year contract, but there is nothing in the document that says how to proceed if we want to leave earlier (no length of notice, etc.). The contract's main purpose is to set the rent for 1 year to insure it can't be changed and to make sure the *owner* can't kick out the tenants. Another flat-owner told us, as a lawyer, that our landlord has no legal backing to make us stay. Maybe I will make another post about why we are leaving...
We continue to look. And live in a weird sort of limbo.
However, we have bought our tickets and will be going to France for 3 weeks in September. The kids are wildly excited about going home and getting to be in their house with their things and see their friends and family. They love all their new friends and their activities here, but they still miss what we left behind. Sometimes, J and I (who have been uprooted pretty much from day one of our lives) sometimes forget how precious our place is to them. We may or may not go back and spend more years in this place--and we have prepared the kids for that--but for now it is their touchstone, their happy place, their home.
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* We signed a one-year contract, but there is nothing in the document that says how to proceed if we want to leave earlier (no length of notice, etc.). The contract's main purpose is to set the rent for 1 year to insure it can't be changed and to make sure the *owner* can't kick out the tenants. Another flat-owner told us, as a lawyer, that our landlord has no legal backing to make us stay. Maybe I will make another post about why we are leaving...