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Moving, do or don't?

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MrsWobbly · 05/01/2017 18:16

I've not posted in a very long time.
I've got a lovely DP, and we are planning a wedding. I'm a student midwife and qualify in just under 19 months. We live separately he has his own house around 1/2 away. We split our time between our houses (he owns)
I have DD aged four and was a single parent from birth. Since then I've had two houses both rented. Today I got notice on the one I'm in, lady is selling. I have to be out in April.
My partner would like us to move in with him. I have not much to keep main my area, it would mean in sept DD can go straight to a school in that area without waiting until the following year and changing. It would mean until September , our £900 childcare bill would be slashed as my in laws would help us out. Things would be tight, but I'd try to work more than I do now and we could get by.
This is the thing, it would be a 1h 15m each way to commute for lectures on a good day.

Property where I live now is far and few between and is extortionate, I would struggle for a new deposit and as I get a little help towards it despite working and studying too landlords don't really want me as a tenant despite references.

It all seems positive but I just don't know if the commute is making is a really stupid idea?

OP posts:
Tinkerbec · 06/01/2017 22:14

Also if you moved in you may lose your tax credits or have to pay them back. Take that into account too.

Short term I could commute but would hate it. I live 2 miles from my job. I commuted an hour a day once. I hated it as I resented the time it took away from me. Where I could be planning lessons or something. Short term it maybe manageable.

I do think it's important though that your daughter will be settled in a school that she will stay at though.

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