Despite all of our many many moves ... we have never moved with furniture before. We have travelled overseas, with everything we own in a 20kg suitcase. We have moved within countries overseas and given away all our household gear. And we have moved from China to Turkey and tried to take some boxes of stuff with us.
We drove from WA to Queensland with everything we had in our car. And then we settled in the LYH (Little Yellow House) in Toowoomba and bought (new) furniture. So this time we wanted to bring it with us.
We had a tow-ball fitted to the car, thinking we might do-it-ourselves, buying or hiring a trailer. One of the off-putting things with that was knowing that we were moving to a third floor apartment with a narrow little staircase.
So we hired a truck and two men at $105 an hour.
HUGE TRUCK, way more than we needed ... apparently they sent the big truck because it has better fuel economy over long distances like Toowoomba to Brisbane.
We figured if we gave them lots of help they could get it done faster and it would cost us less, so we had almost everything out in the carport ready to go by the time they arrived at 9am.
But it seemed to be an extra hot (muggy) day, especially at the Brisbane end, and for one of the two young chaps it was his first day on the job so he was still learning how to lift and carry etc. And then (as expected) getting the stuff up to the apartment was tortuous. It ended up taking 7 hours all up! (Imagine if we'd had as much stuff as most people have!)
Our New Home
We looked at all sorts of apartments, in complexes with swimming pools and the like, but this one has much more appeal. The previous tenants had left the place a bit of a mess, but mess can be cleaned.
We have a huge (airconditioned) main room - big enough to use for our studies as well - and it has windows on both sides. (The other apartments had a very closed-in feeling.) So we have great views, and we get a lovely through breeze when there is one.
From our kitchen window (and living room, dining room, bathroom, and outside fire-escape landing) we have views across to the Story Bridge. On the other side (living room, and bedroom windows) we can see the magnificent old Museum building, and Gregory Terrace.
Here is our kitchen and back door (right) and living room to the left.
Our Masters Classes don't actually start until Second Semester (July) ... so for now - well, who knows?
One Really Good Thing
We had to break lease in Toowoomba, after only 4 months of our 6 month lease. We weren't too worried because the LYH is so nice it shouldn't take long for someone else to take it over. All the same, there would be at least one week extra rent (as penalty) plus however long it took to get someone in there. So we were prepared to pay that anyway.
Then we got a phone call from the agents to say that something had happened the very day we left to make the owners decide they wanted to sell the LYH all of a sudden! And they wouldn't be charging us any penalty or any extra rent!
How's that!!
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