Boston? Boston's even colder than New York! Of course, if that were the only way to be with my sweetiepie, I'd have to consider it.
When I was in Texas the number one question people kept asking me was "what church do you go to honey?". When I told them Jewish-Pagans don't go to church, they would slink away, shaking their heads in pity for my lost soul.
Well, I guess Texas is out for this anti-religious boy then.
But wait, Shewolf is a pagan too. Hmmm....
Well, I visited dys and diane last month in Albuquerque and liked it there. Was testing the waters, re if I would feel like a stranger in a strange land if I ever moved there. No, damn, I loved it even as I was leaving the disembarking area with diane and heading to baggage where dys was. You walk through a corridor with expanses of glass on either side, and see the Sandia mountains on the left, and, that day, the lowering sun on the right..
I am a city girl, will always be an LA woman at heart, but at the time I left I had a need to get out of there for financial reasons. I moved to northnorth (ok, Eureka, California, gads I hate the name, but I do love the place) because I grew to like it on visits to a pal - I visited a lot of friends in the years just after my divorce, both to see them in friendship connecting, and to reconnoiter various places to move to.
Our gallery/landscape business is coming to a natural close (lease) and my business partner and I are still friends - if somewhat tired of the sight of each other - but looking around again for what we'll do when we grow up. She and her husband will stay here, as her son and family are here, and I will likely move. Warmer is appealing to me now. And more city than here if not the raucousness of what I call Lah. Cheaper is appealing too, re the housing market.
I know right away what I'd miss here, which is the ocean. I don't sail, and rarely swim in it, yeh, in Mexico in various coves, but I've long loved being near it.
Italy - I searched for possible places to buy on the internet recently, just to check it out while not knowing about the visa business. But in my case, I would also want a place in the US, and I can't afford both, by a long shot.
On getting a double, kicky, I have a friend who has always done that. She always picks a place where she can rent out a bedroom and bath, if not a whole second unit. This has always paid a fair part of her mortgage, and she'd done very well real estate wise. I guess I have privacy issues or something. I'd rather move than have to rent one of my rooms.
Austin is diff'ernt.
Well now, this cold-as-all-get-out-hell-hole is where I returned to to be with my family. I think I'll be here until a) my parents are dead and gone and/or b) I can afford to fly/drive home twice a year.
See, that's the only reason I would ever consider going back to Rochester. My family. But I really, really hate the weather there, so, I'm not gonna do it.
What other cities have you lived in littlek? If you didn't have your parents to consider, where would you want to live?
Osso, yep, real estate...I'm pretty sure that slowly accumulating property is a very good idea. I actually don't think I'd mind having a tenant. I would just need to become a handyman...I could learn to do that, couldn't I?
If I can learn to build stuff, however clumsily and slowly, anyone can.
You don't need to become a handyman. You can rent to one and give them a break on their rent if they have to fix something. My landlady did this is in my old Brooklyn apartment building. She always had one guy renting the basement the apartment who was handy. If the plumbing broke, he fixed it and he deducted his fee off of his rent. It seemed to work out really well for her. She mostly rented to Polish and Russian immigrants who all had the technical living skills many Americans lack.
my idea is to buy a condowith someone, or two condos (rent one out, share the other one with my partner in crime) , and then either buy out the other half in some time, or sell my share and buy my own place. anyone interested? i could do it if i could split the down payment and mortgage with someone. kickster, want to relocate to sommerdawg? i am a handywoman already. i can paint, garden, fix stove/dishwasher/electricity/car... you name it. just can't make it alone quite yet. i'm trying to talk my friends into buying, but they are even poorer than i.
Where is Sommerdawg? That does sound like a good idea, and emminently do-able.
somerville. we here (ok, perhaps, or even most likely, it is only me) call it somerdawg. i like it here. if i stay in the states, it'd be boston area, or maybe north carolina. liked durham a lot. i think i could share for 5 years or so, then i'd hopefully have saved enough or earned enough to afford to buy the place out or get my own space. ay?
From my age looking back, I wish I'd done that kind of thing earlier, Dag. I was too busy buying cars that lost value the second I drove them out of the lot...
I call it slummerville.
Kicky, I have lived in small cities - Santa Fe (NM), Athens (GA) (a town really), Keene (NH) - mostly. I have been to many cities, but I don't really know what it's like to live in any of them. I really like austin and san fransisco.
I dunno where I'd live if my family wasn't an issue. Maybe back in Athens (but, there's not a lot of work there that pays well). Maybe Italy (firenze) or Canada (Tranna). Perhaps Portland or Seattle......
Okay, then I have figured out my life. I will live with Dag and do that condo thing in Slummerville for a few years. After that I will buy a large villa in Florence, half of which I will rent out to pay my mortgage. I will live there alone until the day when littlek joins me and we live out our days frolicking naked under the Tuscan sun.
Yeah, that sounds pretty f*cking sweet...
well, i am actually serious. all i am looking for is somebody to go in on a condo or two (depending on what the price is) with me. so, are you in? huh? huh? aaaaaah, nobody wants to commit when it comes to breaking the bread. i have a year - i'll go to vienna, then i come back, somehow get a green card, and find a house. wait, will you marry me too? or is it too much to ask? kind of like having hot water in the morning?
Yeah! Marry Dag, buy a condo together, I'll be klicky's mistress AND the handiman!
All my dreams are coming true right before my eyes on this thread...
You'll probably not live in midtown florence, too many clumps of tourists, but in a nearby villa. Settignano? - I know I misspell that - Fiesole? Sigh.
San Francisco, heaven in many ways, but bring money. We need another a2k meet there...
great! lk, you should live with us. if your parents ever give you that dowry thing, we can split a house three-ways. i'd rather share with people i know than with strangers. right? imagine, a little house of your own. where what you pay monthly is not a rent, but a payment on your own property. sounds like a dream, doesn't it, yet it's doable.
