Moving is always difficult. Moving to England is even more complicated. At first glance, it seems like it's just a matter of moving your belongings from one house to another. But in reality, the process involves:

1. Updating your address with all your banks.
2. Replacing your driver's license due to the change of address.
3. Updating the vehicle registration.
4. Notifying the immigration and tax authorities about the change of address.
5. Registering with a new local doctor.
6. Canceling services at your old residence: gas, electricity, internet, and council tax – each provider has its own unique and often lengthy cancellation process.
7. Setting up all these services at your new residence.
8. And, of course, giving your old landlord sufficient notice (at least a month) and the obligation to return the house in its original condition. And that's a whole separate story, full of wasted nerves and time.

For example, after removing stickers from one of the walls, there were marks left because some of the paint peeled off with them. As responsible tenants, we decided to fix the situation. I went to the store three times, trying to find the right shade of paint, but each time the color didn't match. Eventually, I wrote to the landlord asking him to provide the exact color of the paint. After receiving the formula and finally buying the right paint at a specific store, I painted the damaged area of the wall. The result you can see in the second photo – in the end, I had to repaint the entire wall. And this is just one of the situations we had to go through in order to hand over the house.

And what awaited us in the new apartment...

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