I have a completion date of November 5th... after my house was put on the market in April, and spent a total of about 3 weeks up for sale.
Timewasting first buyers strung me along for 5 weeks without any kind of contact or returning calls, second buyers said they were ready to go (renting in the interim) but managed to hire the world's dumbest solicitor and use the slowest mortgage lender in the world.
Very lucky I didn't need the money from the sale to move here as I've been here about 10 weeks now!
But it will be nice to have my moolah finally! I can then go out and buy a car
Better news was the letter from the UK tax people giving me £850 back - much quicker than I expected to have it!
Weird thing is I can't change the address on my drivers licence, as you can only put a UK one, but it is still valid for another 8 years - and they can't erase my old address from their database either.
And while I can legally drive on my UK licence here, they can't give me any points on it