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Post by rikita on Nov 24, 2010 15:41:04 GMT
right now in a small house in a small village. the village and the road it is on, doesn't exist according to google maps, nor have i found other maps it is on, so far.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 24, 2010 23:33:13 GMT
deyana, speak for yourself about long drives. I don't want to live anywhere more than ten minutes' walk from a metro (subway/underground) station! I can do all my shopping on foot too, and I don't mean just the most basic supplies. Of course I have all manner of shopping, but a new residential project, on what was a public works site, also means we will soon have a municipal recreational centre (with a swimming pool) and branch library I can walk too in the most foul of weathers.
Most important about my current abode is that the structural work is just about finished - though shoring up the buildings again means cracks that have to be mended and windows and doors that have to be refitted. I feel a bit of a draft in my office, and that was never the case. But they are doing that work next week, if all goes well.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 22, 2010 17:34:37 GMT
As Mr. Kimby and I live in a "universe of two" most of the time, I often wonder how my life would be different if I didn't have him to keep me company.
Though I LOVE this house in the woods, it IS isolated out here, and I tend not to do "town things" that require a drive into town, especially in the evenings. Would I buy a small bungalow in the University district where you have caring neighbors and can walk to meet most of your needs? How about a condo in the old Wilma Hotel building, or elsewhere downtown?
Now that we are building a lake cottage, and have the place on Sanibel too, we are beginning to talk about what to do with the surplus house, which someday will be this one. Hard to wrap my head around, as we designed and built this house 25 years ago, and I love this valley and my wildlife neighbors. But I can foresee a time when it will not make sense to take care of three houses and occupy each one for only a few months a year....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2010 19:35:08 GMT
lagatta, I hear you. When I lived in Montreal (a City I absolutely adore btw), I had no interest in having a vehicle either. Public transport was really good there or things were walking distance like you say. It's just that living out in the countryside, like I do right now, I don't have that choice. And I do enjoy driving. Although, as I'm teaching my 17 year old boy to drive right now, I'm mostly in the passenger seat lately.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2010 19:52:48 GMT
Juggling three houses will be hard, Kimby. I found out recently, that I'll be inheriting the house in England, and then there's my farm house and farm in India and of course my house here in Canada. Forget about the log cabin I still want to build on that land. I can see myself doing quite a bit of selling off in the near future, either that or handing it down to my kids.... I sometimes wonder how, or why even, I managed to accumulate all of it.  |
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