The ideal location

The weather has been ideal for the past few weeks. Which means that since the Easter holiday break starts at 5.30pm on Thursday – rain is forecasted for the next four days in a row, including Thursday and Friday. Typical Murphy’s Law. Or as Will calls it in About a Boy by Nick Hornby, Sods Law. At least for the time being it’s still nice out and Krystin and I may even get in a cheeky barbeque before it all goes south.

Yesterday I spent a fantastic day in Highgate, North London. It’s technically called ‘Highgate Village’ – which suits the area well. For an area located in London, it honestly felt just like a village. It was such a surprise! And of course I’ve added it to Mark and my (ever growing) list of possible locations we will want to move to. Which of course means I’ve now already gone through a number of pages in Primelocation to check out how far the pound can go there.

We’ve come up with a list of necessities for our future property, where the majority of them need to be ticked in order for us to say ‘yes, we’ll take it!’. It must have:
• Storage space for all of our luggage and things we don’t want out in the open
• A large double bedroom or a double bedroom with a single bedroom which we can use as storage/study room. We’ve got a lot of stuff between us!
• A kitchen big enough for Mark to make a mess of while I clean up as he cooks (Monica Gellar style)
• A shower with appropriate water pressure
• Ground floor would be ideal, light and airy
• Possible garden access – if not, then a nearby park
• Safe area so I don’t worry about coming home at night
• Close enough to local transport and food shopping

We’ll see how we do. Sadly we can’t start looking until Jun/July, since we’re probably not going to start the lease in Aug.