Many thanks to readers for the encouragement after yesterday's post. I've pretty much gotten over my downward phase and am looking forward to a brighter 2021 and finishing my WS hopefully later this year... (NS = National Service, WS = ???) So recently we needed to review our rental agreement. Cos it's been a year and renewal is due. We went around looking for lower cost alternatives. And of course there are lower cost alternatives. We could easily get rent at 50% cheaper. It all depends on WHERE the location is. There are places 20-30% cheaper as well, and those are in good places, nice new apartments with a view over a lake, near to office, but may have less amenities around the area. We enjoy staying at our current place. It's near a lot of food areas, on the edge of the city, so it's near enough to the city area, but yet not too crowded....