Other people go from job to job, continually improving. We fight for every position we get. Other people buy a house, then upgrade it after a while, making it better all the time. We buy a house, then have to move, then are unable to sell it so that it isn't our home anymore but a financial burden that no real estate agent or sales strategy or amount of patience seems able to lift. We live in a place that was supposed to be temporary, that we both hate, but due to the dearth of places available here we seem to be stuck. I continually look for new places, and can't find one. The want ads are filled with people pleading for decent places to live - they don't seem to exist here, unless you buy at an incredibly inflated and undeserving price, which we can't afford anyway because we can't sell our old house.
I don't mean to whine and complain - truly. I know we have a lot to be grateful for. But as long as things keep dragging on with no prospect of improvement in sight, it's difficult to be optimistic.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled silence.
