I have to move..........

and I don't want to.

At the beginning of last year we were happily living in Wollongong (nice and close to mum) when the decision was made to uproot our family and move to Sydney. James had started kindy so it was a BIG decision. I was going to apply for my course at Wollongong but applied to and have now started uni up here. The move was hard, it was a new area and we had no friends and my son had a very hard time settling in to a new school. We moved because we were able to live in DHs grandfather's house at significantly reduced rent. This was supposed to help us get on top of things financially and also create stability because it was a family house, it wouldn't get sold from under us and we could basically stay as long as we felt we needed to - which was going to be 5+ years until I finished uni and had a stable income. We moved in July.

In December David's grandfather passed away quite unexpectedly. The house was inherited by his 3 children. MIL, an aunt and an uncle. We were told in about feb/march that the house would be sold in December so it gave us time. In my head it was getting listed in December so I figured it would probably sell in January and we would have to be out in about March. It gave us a bit of time especially because I am having a baby in January. Yesterday we go told that the house is going on the market in 2 weeks, it will probably take about 20 days to sell and to start packing as they want most of our stuff packed before they paint in a week. So we have about 1-2 months to find a new place. We do not want to move out of the area as both kids are now settled in school, it is convenient for me to get to uni (still takes over an hour but that is fine) and we don't want to uproot again as it was so very hard last time. But we can't afford to live here. In march when we started watching the rental market we could just manage to rent a crappy little house and now we can't even afford that, the rents have gone up by about $50 a week so we just don't know what to do. We pretty much have 4 options

1. Pay rent in this area and just not be able to eat (not particularly viable)
2. Take charity from PIL who have offered to help with rent so we can stay in the area (I do NOT want to do this)
3. Move back to Wollongong (rents aren't that much cheaper, but I would be closer to mum, DS could go back to his old school so would be fine but DD would have to adjust, and it would take 2+ hours to get to uni so leave by 6:15 not home till 7)
4. Move out west - Penrithish (rents are cheaper, 1.5 hours to uni, and have friends as we lived in the area before we went to Wollongong BUT kids would have to start a new school and find new friends again.)

I just don't know what to do. I am annoyed that the timeline has shifted so much. And upset that my dream of stability has been disrupted and just angry at the whole situation.

Don't get me wrong, I am not upset AT anyone (such as MIL, aunt and uncle) I understand that the house has to be sold and that it was just bad luck that our stability ended so soon. But it doesn't make the current situation any easier to deal with. Add that to my hyper emotional pregnancy state and my very demanding and full on uni course and it is all just a little hard to deal with right now.