Learner Dad: We're moving house and I wonder if I’m bottling up my feelings

When I moved from Dublin to Cork I felt bad during the opening credits of Fair City, and not just because it meant Fair City was about to come on

We’re not just moving house, we’re moving from this area completely, leaving all that behind.

We’re moving house in two weeks. Or three. We’re told it might be four. Closing a house deal in Ireland is about as transparent as a papal election – there comes a point where no one seems to know what’s going on. Or maybe everyone in the bank has gone on holidays. 

Either way, our neighbour told me yesterday he is moving to Poland after an abusive relationship with the Irish property market, and that a house deal takes about three weeks to go through there after you go sale-agreed.