I am being made to move back IN...AWFUL!!
I have my own place in the depths of Norfolk where I lived and cooked and entertained happily and got to have a 'normal' existance but as I was being moved to the rather more expensive South my meagre salary and common sense would have slight starting problems with buying a one bed flat for £189,000 or a small box house for £210,000. Thankfully, I accepted the particular posting as i was told I would have a SSSA flat - bonus!! As I detest being in the mess and strangely, by having a life I have accumulated more belongings that can fit into 24ft squared!
Well all was going jolly well - as may hae been picked up from various other forums I spend a good deal travelling but I always have somewhere to come home too - bless! As family all live a million miles away in places the good old MOD give me hassle about going I am on my own over here (always found that amusing - I can't go to my Disabled OAP Great Aunts house for Christmas day but a tent within spitting distance an Arab nation that consider me an Infidel with elements who want to permanently erase me from existance is fine for personal security??? Go figure! A whole different thread could start) therefore, in the words of an old song - wherever I lay my hat...
Anyway, I digress..
While on some det or other - get a call to say that I am being kicked out of said flat as the RAF are saving supposedly saving money (agree with the sentiment - but probably would have reconsidered the posting had I have known the distruption it was about to cause!) But its okay - they have built PORTACABINS as they actually have still failed to sort out the accomodation shortage anyway!! The Annex is made up of battle grey paper thin construction (you will hear your neighbour doing all sorts of nasty things in their room now!) and have built in unremovable furniture with about 5 ft of floorspace and a single bed - so should you put a double in there will be zero space! The place is a eyesore in front of what is actually a rather attractive mess buiding and is the most demoralising set up known to man (next to Marham OM which consistently has no hot water or electricity...)
The other options were to move to Uxbridge (where you aren't really considered part of the mess there either as you are from HW so you have the rooms they don't want plus its a b*tch of a daily journey with not much to travel back too). There is talk of converting a block at Halton - but it needs some serious H&S work done to it..
Asked to rent an excess quarter - but hell no! That is reserved for married people who might arrive in teh next 3 years (apart from the fact they could triple their income by renting it out to 3 reponsible Officers - don't even start me!) Thankfully a fellow orifice has gone on det and offered up his suite for the use of so I don't have to sleep on top of my telly!
To rent out around the area is £700+ for a council flat where refugees get to live for free and as I am away a lot I am bitter about paying that kind of rent!
Trying to buy another property but never about long enough to find/view/offer/complete on anywhere....
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