# We decided over the weekend that we're going to move house. We're going to sell up here and move a few miles over the city to Moseley. Moseley a much more residential area than where we are at the moment, and it's much easier for lots of fun stuff for kiddies (and grown-ups). The roads are quieter, and seem to have an enormous number of trees planted along them. We'll be getting somewhere a bit smaller, and we so should be able to hammer the mortgage right down too. And it's nearer to Waitrose. Bonus!

We've taken some financial risks that didn't come off in the last year, and somethings which shouldn't have been risky turned out to be. The contracts market is improving, but it's still very much a buyers market. No matter how strong your technical skills, if you haven't previously worked in a bank for instance, your chance of getting one of the many jobs in the City of London are verging on nil. The rates are down too, and also getting the age where I'm actually starting to look to old for a lot of jobs. IT isn't always somewhere that values experience. So getting the mortgage down would be a good plan.

In many ways, this can be a really good and positive thing to do. It's sad to be leaving after all the work that went in. I still find the kitchen a novelty and it's been in a year. It's also difficult not to feel forced out - perhaps if our invoices had been paid we'd have battled on through. But it's done and we've decided. The valuer will be here in about twenty minutes. We're on our way.

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