We're not moving

Thank you for all the comments.  Everyone seems to have latched onto one thing.....that it might be time for us to consider moving.

I have to say, right from the off - moving house is not an option, certainly not in the near future.  We don't want to move.  Our rent and Council tax are low, due to the house having an agricultural connection and being in a very rural area with no facilities nearby - what we pay here for a 3 bedroom house and medium size garden with lovely views is what we'd pay for a 1 bedroom flat with no garden in town.  And we're not ready for a flat with no garden.  Nor do we want just 1 bedroom - we need at least 1, preferably 2 spare rooms for family and friends coming to stay.  We know the limitations of living here, and the likelihood that we may have to move at some point in the future - but not yet.

The way we feel is more to do with all the problems we've had for the past year or so - husband's health (and mine to a lesser extent), the ongoing expensive problems with our bloody car and the financial strain that has put us under, my mother's deteriorating health and us not living near enough to visit regularly and help out.  There are also another couple of things that I don't talk about on here, but which cause us a lot of problems.  And then there's all the building works going on next door with the incessant noise, which has dragged on for weeks and weeks, that has really ground us down (me in particular).   

I think once the next door stuff is over and done with, things will improve - well, I hope so.  Right now, a little voice in the back of my head is saying 'yeah, until the next thing comes along to break us'.  

None of our problems is insurmountable - well, other than husband's health, he's not suddenly going to get better, nor is my mother.  My mother's situation will come to an inevitable conclusion, probably sooner rather than later, we've all accepted that her time is limited.  It's just been one thing after another for us, with barely a breath in between, and it's worn us down and made life a struggle.  But I don't suppose it will go on forever.