LOL--I love the bipolar responses. We normally pay our rent to a property manager and she pays the rent to the landlady. So, how does this Banco Agricola thing work?
I've already PM'd both Matilda and MommC (and JRR) that we need another place.
As WHY we are still here...we have the lowest rent in Metro (and it's not thru the Metro CC office) and my dh is convinced that our family be irreparably harmed if we move out. I, on the other hand, am not so convinced. I think that the "security" and safety of Metro is overstated; BUT I could be wrong. So, there is the sticking point. The friend, whom my dh trusts implicitly, swears that we'll be miserable outside Metro (meanwhile we feel like the poorest folk here while living here) and something terrible will happen to our children or me if we move out. After driving to the orphanage through canefields, having breakdowns in the middle of SPM & various hwys, I'm really not so sure about the danger being greater. Someone could just as easily hop over the Metro wall (or in our case--we only have barbed wire where our 100lb golden retriever can fit through and horses stick their heads through) and enter our home. We don't have a lot of valuables--the house is furnished (although impractically so with tons of nicknacks given that we have 3 kids).
It's quite a dilemma. As of right now, we are very actively looking for a place so we can get out of here in January. I don't want to live somewhere that we are not wanted. Being a foreigner and a homeowner (in the US), I feel a sense of responsibility to the place I'm living. So, that tells you, we couldn't possibly take the lightbulbs, toilet innards, door handles (my dh would rather die first)...the NYer in me says "We paid for them!" And, yes, we've been married 21 years!