Moving house when you have a chronic illness or disability

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Moving house can be a hectic, stressful and exhausting experience. It can be difficult for anyone at the best of times, but for those moving house who suffer from a chronic illness or disability it can be even more challenging. 

Suffering from a chronic illness or disability means that even everyday, mundane tasks can be extremely challenging or even impossible. Add moving house to the mix of battling daily life with a chronic illness or disability and the fatigue, pain and other symptoms of the chronic illness or disability can be exacerbated. 

If you suffer from a chronic illness or disability and are moving house, here are a few little suggestions that can help make moving house a little more manageable.

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Top tips for moving house

Moving house can be a hectic and stressful time. So much so that it is often said that moving house is one of the most stressful experiences that people face in life.

Dealing with daily life whilst simultaneously tackling moving preparations and living amongst half packed boxes. Packing your worldly possessions safely and securely so they are not lost or broken. Moving everything from A to B, often having to move everything from your old home to your new one in one day.

Is Moving Country A Good Option?

Sometimes we have to move country, or even just want to. For many different reasons people pack their bags and head to a brighter future in a different country. Somewhere that is really popular to move to at the minute is Australia. The lure of the boiling hot summers and to more relaxed lifestyle draws people in. There are other countries that are rising in popularity too for the various different things that they offer. But is moving to a different country a good idea? 

Some people will argue absolutely not. There’s so many different things to consider. Think about how stressful a move to the next state is. Imagine how stressful it is going to be to another country. But is that always the case? Well, there’s going to be that many things to sort you’re obviously going to feel a bit stressed from time to time. But if you plan in advance, like with any move, it’ll take the weight off your shoulders a little bit. So if you’ve got the dream of jetting you and your family off to a different country, we’ve put together a few things that you’re going to need to consider before you actually make the move.

Moving house - top tips for a stress-free experience

During my 30 odd years I have lived in a number of different houses and moved too many times to accurately remember the exact number of moves I’ve experienced.

Whilst moving house can be an exciting time where you delight in the thought of a new home to call your own, it can be overwhelming too. Moving can conjure up a range of emotions and it can be an overwhelming experience.

With so much to do when moving house and the emotions it can cause the experience can be a very stressful one. Having moved lots myself I can fully attest to the fact that moving house is a quite an upheaval and a stressful experience!

Moving house with kids

Over the years I've moved house a lot of times. Since the first time we moved house when I was a toddler the number of times I've had to pack up my belongings and move to a new house has reached double digits.

When I was a child moving was an exciting and fun experience. After moving out of my mum's home at the age of 18 then moving house quite a few times as an adult I have experienced first hand how moving house can be a hard and stressful experience.

Whilst moving house by myself with a little help from friends and family was a stressful experience it was nothing in comparison to moving house with kids in tow!

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Over the years I have moved house many times. The number of times I had moved house had reached double digits by the time I hit my teenagers years and since then I have moved quite a few times again.

When I was a child moving house was quite an exciting time and as we thankfully always stayed in the area I never had the upheaval of new schools or saying goodbye to friends. Whilst my mum had the all the hassle of dealing with the paperwork and hard work of moving house my sister and I just had the excitement of settling in to a new house with new bedrooms that we could decorate to our own taste and lots of boxes to play with once the unpacking had been done!

Since the first time I left home and set up in a new house all by myself when I was 18 (unfortunately quite a few years now) I have had to deal with the process of looking for a house, dealing with the paperwork and the hard work of moving all my belongings from one house to another. Now that I have experienced the responsibility of moving house a few times I can relate to what my mum dealt with many times during my childhood and can honestly say that moving house is a stressful experience.

Moving house - a costly and stressful experience.

They say that moving house can be one of the most stressful times of your life. Having moved house over 10 times since I was a child, I can attest that it is a very stressful experience.

Whilst it can be fun viewing different houses to find your next dream home, there is also the pressure of finding the right home for you and then snapping up that dream home and signing on the dotted line before it all falls through or someone else beats you to it.

Dream home.

As previously mentioned we have recently moved house.  Even though we flitted with the idea of buying a house rather than renting again time constraints of when we had to move and financial matters mean that for this move it was not possible.  Due to how quick we needed to move if we had decided to fulfil the dream of owning our own home during this house move we would have to rush decisions and buy any old house rather than take our time to make sure that the house we bought was the right house for us.  Even though it would have been lovely to own our home with the implications of buying our own house being immense financial responsibility we had to be responsible and for now the best option for us was to rent again.

Flirting with the idea of buying out own home got me imagining my dream home.  Even though simply owning our home and fulfilling particular requirements such as a garden, number of bedrooms and location when buying the house would make me very happy it would be amazing to be able to buy land and build our own home from scratch and have the home of my dreams made reality.