You may remember five full years ago I moved out of the Kingdom Hall's attached house and into a different one nearby (pictured above). After a half decade, it has come time to move out, and very very hastily as well.
Note to landlords: if you want to keep your tenants, don't raise the rent 150% overnight.
Can't complain though. The house provided me a place, as well as the Circuit Assembly guests we would constantly get, plus a never ending stream of roommates and house guests. Seriously. I got up to 70 people passing through my place before I just quit counting.
But of course, needing to immediately move raises the obvious question. Move to where? Well, by the strangest coincidence (Coincidence? I think not!) one brother needed to move out of Orealla to another village just three weeks prior, leaving behind a fully furnished home. So here's a few of the perks:
1. The person we're renting from is now a Witness instead of someone from the field
2. Our neighbors (on both sides!) are now also Witnesses, as opposed to a police station and a church
3. This house is not on stilts like the previous one, but rather has a complete downstairs and upstairs (seen in the picture below)
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| Could it use a coat of paint? Yes, but let's not be hasty. |
4. One of those neighbors has a freezer and lets us make use of it!
5. We can still access the village wifi from here, which has even allowed me to use Zoom on occasion!
6. This one has a toilet (outhouse) already. At the last house we didn't get one until a full year had passed.
Plus, it is magnificent to get a little further away from the center of town. When I first came here seven years ago it was practically Mayberry, no crime, no disturbance, whatsoever. Now the level of crime has increased somewhat, people are less trustworthy, and Orealla is even jumping on the bandwagon of civil unrest.
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| It was bound to happen eventually. |
In case anyone is worrying about my health and how the village is doing because of the line about how the toshao (village captain) has been handling Covid, you have nothing to fear. The protest is that he's being too restrictive. As far as keeping covid at bay, we're all doing fine.
So in summary, getting away from all that and further into the bush surrounded by JW neighbors, with semi-reliable wifi has been amazing. And don't even get me started on the yard. Instead of a tiny square of grass surrounded by dirt roads, we have this...
