Everything from the smell of the rooms, the sounds in the stairwell to the view out the window changes when you move house or flat. People do not simply change their address. Yet, how someone copes with the upheaval depends on the circumstances. “Moving to another continent with children is, of course, a very radical experience because the entire social and cultural environment changes,” says author and psychologist, Prof Eva Asselmann. “Moving to a bigger flat three streets away does not come with such far-reaching change for a couple.” Yet, simply moving from a flat in the city-centre to a h…