Reasons to change address

If you read this blog entry then you’ll know I’m on the move, even if it is only from one side of town to the other.

These are the positives:

• No more buidling site. My current home on a ”new estate” means dodging tractors, JCBs and industrial lorries on a daily basis, my car looks like I’ve driven through a desert and I can barely see out of my windows for all the dust that blows around. And none of the builders I see every morning are even the slightest bit fit.
• No more Tesco Express. Although incredibly handy situated at the bottom of the estate, I do seem to spend my life in there and probably spend more money than I would do if I did a bigger but less frequent shop.
• No more uneven roads. The road through my estate is bendy, lumpy and full of potholes. This is unlikely to change until the building has been finished (this could be years) and it’s doing nothing for the suspension of my poor car. Although it is good for practising racing driver turns!
• Technology. At my current place I can’t get Broadband, I can’t use all the functionality (eek, can’t believe I just used the word “functionality” – makes me sound like a proper PR bod) of Sky+ because the aerial isn’t set up for this and I don’t have a TV aerial point in the bedroom so can’t watch films in bed. There’s also only one phone connection point and it’s in the most invconvenient place. My new pad even has a phone point in the coat cupboard. That’s where I will be taking private calls!
• Lots of power points. My kitchen has two, yes just two, power points in the kitchen so most of my appliances can’t be plugged in at the same time. I would never buy a house built by Barretts. Considering this place was brand new when I moved in, they haven’t thought about a lot of very simple things. My new place has power points galore – I counted them.
• Storage space. My current abode has no storage space. Very few kitchen cupboards and a boiler cupboard which you can’t fit anything else in apart from a boiler. My new place will have more cupboard space than I will know what to do with. Yes, it’s sad that I’m excited about cupboards but… yay, cupboards!
• Outside space. My only outside space at the moment is the concrete parking space where my car sits. Not good for sunbathing. New pad has a balcony which overlooks a lake. I will consider the whole of the lakeside to be my garden!
• Shower power. I can just about bend down to shave my legs in my current shower but the new one could fit about four people in it. I don’t know why I would ever want four people in my shower but it’s cool none-the-less.
• More space. The second bedroom in my new pad will be a second bedroom/study rather than the junk room it currently is now. Anything that can’t fit anywhere else – ski boots, old newspapers, exercise mat, luggage, soft toys – all goes in here at the mo. In the new pad I will be able to hide it.
• Closer to work. Although officially I’m only 10 mins from work now, it takes me at least 25 mins to negotiate the traffic. Sitting on a dual-carriageway is not the best use of time. The new pad is two minutes from work and if I’m feeling energetic I could also bike or walk in, saving on diesel dollars.
• Less time on the road. As well as being closer to work, the new pad is closer to the M1 for my regular jaunts to Leicester and nearer to all my pals. But it’s just as close to the town centre for my nights out with the MK Massive.
• Landscaped surroundings. The apartments look out over landscaped gardens and pathways, the lake and a boatyard. I currently get to look at bags of sand, scaffolding and bricks.

The negatives:

• It means packing all my stuff into boxes, carrying heavy things and sifting through all the crap I have hidden in the wardrobe.
• The rent’s a bit steep.

PS The photo above is not my new pad, but some swanky apartments in Dubai. A girl can wish.