Stressful Life Events
House Moving Still Up There Thu Mar 10th Seal watching Jack watching seal off Hopkins Landing In the context of all that is going on in Europe it is inconsequential, but I can confirm that house purchasing/moving remains one of the top of life's stressful events. Not helped when the transaction transcends borders and large sums of money need to be moved. It's made worse when the exchange rate goes 2.5c against you the day after contracts after exchanged! In house purchase terms that is a lot of money. The money is somewhere between my Wise £ account and Wise CAD account, while they carry out money laundering checks, all quite legitimate, but not a quick process. I wonder if Russian Oligarchs had this much problem moving money around. One suspects not! The good news is that the rate has improved and is only 1.2c down - but who knows where it will end up by the time it's sitting in our local attorney's account. T...