Moving Day?

There was a letter in my letter-box when I got home today- the complex that I live in has been sold (it was previously owned by just 1 person), and they are going to be selling the flats individually. This means that I have the option of buying my flat (yeah, right), or moving out.

I'm a bit shellshocked - this is just one big change too many in the last couple of months! It's not going to happen soon, I assume - they have to go through the whole formal meeeting & notification process, and I would think that they would be happy for people to carry on renting until their unit is sold - but it is going to happen, and probably within the next few months.

In a way, it's a pity that this didn't happen last month; it would probably have been a bit much, looking for a new job and a place to stay at the same time, but at least I would have known. I would almost definitely have just gone to the UK then.

Now, I dunno ... I was thinking about going to the UK in a year or so; should I think of going now instead? But I don't like to leave a job just a couple of months in ... But if I don't, I'll probably have to take another 1 year lease on a new place, and if I'm thinking of leaving it would probably be half-way or three-quarters of the way through the lease, which makes it difficult. Not to mention all the hassle of packing up my stuff, finding a new place, etc. etc. etc.... And of course my UK passport isn't ready yet; I'm still waiting for my birth certificate from home affairs (how is it that the UK can get a birth certificate to me, in another country, within two weeks - but here, it takes 2 months to get it?), and then I still have to send the application off. So I figure it would be at least 4 months before I get the passport. And one of the things that puts me off London is the accomodation issue - it seems that rent is pretty high, and most people share a flat or a house. Now I've never lived in digs, and I don't really want to start now ... I don't think I can face sharing a bathroom with a bunch of other people :-) But I doubt that I'd be able to afford a place of my own. And I'd have preferred to save a bit more before I go, just so that I don't have to stress too much about getting a job right away.

I just don't know. It's almost like a sign that I should go. Or maybe I need to look at it as a trial run, getting rid of stuff I don't need and seeing how many boxes are needed for the stuff I do need ... I dunno.

Well, it's not like I need to make a decision right now, it'll probably take a couple of months to sort out what's happening here. But still. I dunno.