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Life has changed beyond anything I could imagine in the last seven or eight months, and I am struggling to adapt.
I decided I was happy over here back in about 2015. I debated selling my house back in Mitcham with the estate agent I’d hired to rent it out. She strongly endorsed the plan. I said to her that I was considering selling, but I’d long thought that I’d hold back until it fetched at least twice what I paid for it – which is to say, £300,000, an absurd amount of money. She laughed in my face and told me that if she couldn’t get £350,000 then she wasn’t doing her job. And after fees, taxes and so on, she did – I got a little under a third of a million pounds for it.
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The older you get, the faster life passes. I’m heading for my mid-fifties and the years jush whizz by in a few subjective weeks. But moving to a new country and starting over certainly slows things down for a while. 2014 and 2015 felt like they lasted a year each, and that hadn’t happened in decades.
But since autumn 2019… wow. A lifetime. Ada’s lifetime.
I hope she gets a lot more than I fear she might, and I hope that I’m there to share the first couple of decades of it.
I decided I was happy over here back in about 2015. I debated selling my house back in Mitcham with the estate agent I’d hired to rent it out. She strongly endorsed the plan. I said to her that I was considering selling, but I’d long thought that I’d hold back until it fetched at least twice what I paid for it – which is to say, £300,000, an absurd amount of money. She laughed in my face and told me that if she couldn’t get £350,000 then she wasn’t doing her job. And after fees, taxes and so on, she did – I got a little under a third of a million pounds for it.
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The older you get, the faster life passes. I’m heading for my mid-fifties and the years jush whizz by in a few subjective weeks. But moving to a new country and starting over certainly slows things down for a while. 2014 and 2015 felt like they lasted a year each, and that hadn’t happened in decades.
But since autumn 2019… wow. A lifetime. Ada’s lifetime.
I hope she gets a lot more than I fear she might, and I hope that I’m there to share the first couple of decades of it.
