âItâs making people bolderâ: The âreassessmentâ of life after lockdown Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement As president of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria, Leah Calnan spends a lot of her day thinking about where we want to call home. But in the last 12 months she and her family, like so many Victorians, have found the pandemic is breaking down the separation between professional and personal lives. âCOVID has absolutely created the ability for people to reassess life and that has come in different forms: reviewing the size of their mortgage, the location of where they live, the size of the property they live in. The deeper question has been, âIs this actually where I want to live for the next seven to 10 years?â [the typical period people spend per dwelling],â Calnan says.