Melbourne

I got back from Melbourne yesterday to find that the housing situation is going haywire again. The girl who's on the lease has just signed contracts on her very first house, and the other two housemates are moving out soon-ish as well. Which basically means I'm left in a position where I: a) take on the lease (not possible without work), b) move somewhere else in Canberra and hope that things with Matt don't go well enough that I get settled here and then decide to bugger off to Melbourne, or c) bugger off to Melbourne.

Three guesses which I'm doing.

Right now, I'm not terribly settled in Canberra. I don't have a job, the only person I really know is an ex who I've seen all of once in the last four months, and I most certainly don't have stable housing. In Melbourne I have two close friends I've known for ages plus some cousins, there's an active and relatively well-funded deafblindness agency that I could do voluntary (or possibly paid) stuff with, the job opportunities might be different but they won't be stunted, and the public transport will be massively better, depending on where I settle. Oh, and apparently it's a good city for alternative type communities, unlike Canberra.

Things with Matt may or may not work out; that's a given. I can say that intuitively I don't see things falling over any time soon, but given how quickly circumstances have prevailed I'm perfectly aware that my intuition hasn't really been backed up by the rigours of time. I know where I'd like this to go, but if it doesn't work out then at least I've given it a shot, and I really think this relationship is worth taking a risk for. Sure, I'd have liked another couple of months for us to both be comfortable in the relationship before doing this, but under the circumstances now seems like a better idea than later.

So... I'll be moving in under a month. I don't know where I'll be living yet. I'll probably stay at Matt's for a couple of weeks until I can sort out share housing, and I'll stay in a share house until either Matt and I come to that point where moving in together seems like a natural progression, or until I have work and can afford something little on my own.

Fingers crossed it all goes well.