My ds is nominally living and working in Birmingham. However, as lockdowns have happened he has stayed with his partner in wales who was a student at a welsh university. He was able to WFH and his company were cool with him being locked down at his partners home in wales.
His partner completed her degree in June and has just started a Masters at a university in south east England. He is going to move with her due to continuing covid issues and fact that his company has says they all work from home until there’s a vaccine or covid in control.
So, they went down this weekend and got a rented house for the year whist she does her masters. His rental contract on his Birmingham home will finish next week but in truth he’s hardly been there from early March.
The issue is that his “stuff” is still at Birmingham and hers is in wales. My son took as much stuff as they could squeeze into his small car when they drove to south east at weekend. He then planned to collect his stuff from Birmingham next week-it is about a 9 hour round trip from their new house south east.
Meanwhile his partner had arranged for her dad to hire van to get her stuff from wales in about 2 weeks time. It’s about a 10-12 hour round trip for her dad- I assume they were planning to overnight in her old flat in wales.
All good until welsh lockdown came in. Partners parents now in tier 2 and worried about travelling from there to wales, especially as wales will completely lock down as of Friday- they’re worried about fines and hassle not unreasonably
Son now wants to drive back to wales this weekend and get rest of partners stuff- again they’d run risk of being stopped but think it is better to justify if they do now than wait for partner dad to do the run in 2 weeks.
However that means he’d have to take extra time off to go on his Birmingham run before his tenancy on his home there runs out. And he faces 2 really long drives in a few days
We’re in north of England in2nd tier lockdown, so feel we shouldn’t really be offering to say do Birmingham run for them to ease the pressure, even though we want to. They agree.
WWYD if you were my son and partner? Because they’re both recent graduates there’s not anything particularly valuable- should they just abandoned it and accept they have to replace ( it’s stuff like spare clothing, bedding, house plants, cooking implements etc- usual student paraphernalia)