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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Entered the new place today.

sad realisationsOh man it is somehow a lot smaller and sadder than I remember. And the road noise is so much more noticeable than at my place. I'm not even sure my fridge will fit. E: I have gone back and measured and it will JUST barely fit. Thank fuck. ~~Like an idiot I didn't measure anything while I was inspecting (because it was tenanted).~~ I am really, really cracking the sads right now back at my current place knowing how much I have to give up. It just doesn't feel like what I've worked for at all... Fucking rental market...

Feels like I really am saying goodbye to a whole life in stages. Will any of it be worth it? I'm going to have to fast forward the chat with work about whether I'll be able to work primarily remotely after I finish uni. The only way I see out of any of this long-term is to move in with family to hyper save up a deposit. But the only family I can move in with is interstate.

I definitely need something to look forward to because after slogging it out for years to get residency and building a life for myself I'm really sad at having to shrink it so much. I'm ready to live more expansively. I've really sacrificed a lot to try and finish this degree and it's going so much worse than I expected...

And on top of that, couch guy has turned up only to find that it's too small for his car despite my telling him the dimensions ahead of time. So that's fallen through as well, arrrgh... what do I do now??? Pay someone on airtasker to take it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think you get two free hard rubbish collections a year? Or am I making that upโ€ฆ maybe check with your council and use it as a backup option

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

My current council doesn't do on-demand hard rubbish :/ The next booking available is well after I've moved out. I've got a friend with a station wagon, we might be able to take it to the tip. A shame as it's a perfectly functional couch but I can't seem to move it online

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