Treading water

More chronological catchup, more bureaucratic tasks

Quick recap: In April 2021 (back when we were still living in Toronto), Haritha and I saw this listing for a dreamy property in a tiny town an hour and a half from Halifax. Even though we thought buying this particular building was probably impossible for us, our intense emotional reaction to the possibility made us decide to move to Nova Scotia anyway.

This decision was initially a complete train wreck. But after we picked ourselves up and dusted ourselves off, we were able to pull off the purchase after all — thanks to my unhealthy levels of determination and an overwhelming amount of community care.

(Film photo by Yuliya Tsoy)

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As I touched on a bit in that last post, the three and a half months it took us to make this sale happen were beyond gruelling. I would usually describe this sort of situation as an emotional rollercoaster, but we didn’t really let ourselves have many highs along the way.

Resisting getting my hopes up is very unlike me. In fact, my hopes tend to be up kind of…