Addressing the years (Queensland) ...

I didn't post here of our arrival in Queensland.  

At that stage I still saw Hamby Home(in)stead as being specific to the Victorian farm house and our life back then.  

Over time I relaxed my view and remembered the title was meant to seperate our camping and outings from day-to-day happenings at home, wherever that may be.  And so I did a re-cap post and re-activated the blog.  

What happened to our previous homes?  It's quite interesting!  Nick's fibro shack and the first home we shared together were both demolished, making way for more valuable properties. Nick's tiny abode was replaced with a huge house, which most recently sold for over $2.5 million!

Of course this one will also be demolished.  It, the one next door and surrounding land sold off-market for $8.5 million, to become a commercial facility.  

Our wedding house with the visiting kookaburras was renovated - as was the "brick box" that we moved into the following year.  I'm not sure about the house with all the building issues.  The smaller one after that had work done.

It seems the Victorian farm house has since sold, as part of a larger holding (240 acres), for 5.6 million. Wow!

Even though this house has issues, we have mostly enjoyed living here - particularly the visiting birds, frogs and geckoes.  Having only one neighbour and so much space around us has been wonderful, especially after our 18 months of vanlife!

By the time we leave, we'll have lived in this one house for over 5 and a half years (67 months).  That's the longest we've stayed anywhere - yep, a record!

We had 8 months together in our first home (though I lived there for 3.5 years overall).  20 months in the kookaburra/wedding house, then 27 in the "brick box".  Just 14 in the house with building issues.  Another 27 in our last NSW home.  3 months in our temporary accommodation at Kew, then 27 months of farm life.  18 months of van life - before 67 months as Queenslanders.

In 2015 we were facing our 7th move in 10 years. (Just about all of those moves involved other acute stress, aside from the move itself).  I added all the notice periods and the total was 400-plus days. That didn't include the couple of houses that were on the market before the notice periods kicked in - and I didn't bother trying to work out how long we spent unpacking/settling in the next house(s). At the time I calculated it could easily be 18 months to 2 years of those 10 years that we'd spent preparing to move, moving and recovering afterwards.