London Letter: The rapacious property market here makes Dublin’s seem quaint
The dreaded WhatsApp message from the landlady arrived, as welcome as a bout of gastroenteritis and almost as pleasant. She wanted to move back in. We had to move out once the lease was up.
We knew it would be harder the second time round. The schools, the schoolfriends, the now-entrenched daily rhythm of life – all these were perimeters around the areas we could search. We couldn’t uproot again. We had to find something in the same enclave, near the same schools. The area had its own microclimate of suitable and available homes – there were none.
Driving from one stranger’s home to another in a foreign city gives a completely different view of how the other half lives. Sometimes you want to be that other half and,sometimes you really don’t.
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