Of course, the universe knows that this isn’t what we truly want. It knows we are manifesting an escape from something, not manifesting the creation of something new. We’re not manifesting from a present state of being completely clear.
The thought of escape only creates a new situation from which we’ll also want an escape.
The thought of being in a place I love, in a place with which I am completely satisfied in the present, brings me more places I love from the present. And that in turn creates a new reality with even more of those qualities.
So, on a long, lined, yellow piece of paper, I wrote a list of seven things that would make me feel at peace in the current house and actually like the house again. (Who knows, maybe the house was influencing me to give it the things it wanted before it would let me go.)