No flat yet, but tickets are bought

[wayfaringwordhack]

We 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...

Comments

[asakiyume]

I'm glad the kids (and you!) will get to be back in your homestead for a few weeks!

I'm not clear, though, with regard to Lebanon: I know you want to change apartments, but would you also shorten your overall stay in Lebanon? Or would your stay be the same, just where you live during that time would change?

[wayfaringwordhack]

Yeah, just move flats. :P

We will stay in Lebanon for the full 4 years, possibly 5 if J wants to take early retirement.

[asakiyume]

Whoa, then you **definitely** want to find a more comfortable place. That's a long time.

[wayfaringwordhack]

It is. And this is one of the highest rents we've ever paid for a place with a lot of problems. :(

[queenoftheskies]

Sorry to hear you're stuck in a lease contract when you'd rather have a new place. I hope it all works out for your benefit.

[wayfaringwordhack]

It is definitely not a comfortable position to be in. :(

[tolcath]

Three weeks of reliable electricity and water *and* my own stuff? I'd be wildly excited, too!

Hope you find a better place when you go back.

[wayfaringwordhack]

LOL. The reliable elec and water did not even enter my mind. Thanks for pointing that out. It makes it even better. :P