Owning your own home

You'll be glad to know you can expect fewer now as I'm properly job hunting at the moment ;)

On the mortgage stuff, we're with Nationwide, who will only let you remortgage if you've got at least two years left on a fixed term contract.

There's an interesting job I'd quite like at the moment, it's a one year fixed term contract but my friend works there and reckons there's no way it will just be a year. It relates to two very big infrastructure projects too, so that makes sense.

But I can't really go for it as we're hoping to move within the next year or so and would need to remortgage anyway at some point even if we don't move.

It seems a bit daft to not be able to go for interesting jobs because they're fixed term when these days you could be made redundant at any moment. It feels like mortgages haven't really kept up with the labour market.

(I know I could get something fixed term then go to a broker, but it's a risk - I wouldn't find out what the answer was until I'd already accepted a job. And I like Nationwide and would prefer to stay with them as they've been good to us and they're more ethical than most).