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Moving house mid-season: change clubs or stay

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A family mid-move on a suburban Australian street with cardboard boxes on the verge and a child in football kit watching as a parent carries a box.

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You are moving in three weeks. The new place is across town. Same suburb in name, different in practice. The drive to your child's current club becomes 25 minutes each way instead of 5. The football season has another 12 weeks to run.

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