Really need some advice.
I'm currently living in Brighton with my fiance, we've been here 6 months. We both adore Brighton, having moved from Slough and Enfield it's nice to be in a town where you don't get regular any hassle for being alternative. (Fiance has a mohawk) Problem is, since being here I've been having back problems, which means that our top floor flat is now a cage for me more than anything else, because I can't cope with the stairs.
On top of that, this flat is horrible. We had a leaking roof for the first 4 months here (which meant a lot of fighting to get it fixed), since then there has been a constant stream of things going wrong. We had to call environmental health on a pub near us who suddenly decided that turning the volume of their music up was a good idea. (We could hear the words to songs and feel the bass from the other side of the flat! With door and windows closed!!) We've just discovered we have a new leak in the kitchen. The kitchen is unbearable anyway, even without the leak.
We've also discovered that the breeze gets through every single window in the flat, not good with the strong/cold winds we've been getting recently.
So, cold plus damp from the leaking, not helping our health at all.
We've tried looking for properties, and again we are restricted, because we are on housing benefit. So can only afford so much, and that's if the property accepts it at all.
Our choices currently are;
- find somewhere in Brighton, in our price range, which accepts DSS
- move back to my fiance's mum's house (really really don't want to do that, partly because it's Enfield, partly because it's his mum's house)
- find somewhere different to look, but I have no idea where
Oh also, I got rid of my car when the back problems started as driving aggravates it. Which means we can't be far from a decent transport system, and even then, on bad days my back can't cope with buses, and if we were to move back to Enfield or Slough we'd be totally reliant on other people driving us places.
Any advice? Fiance is talking about leaving this place in a months time.