Hope the best for Lyn's trip to Spain! I hope she likes the place, and if she eventually gets to Barcelona it will be nice to know she's in my "jurisdiction". Kinda bad that she gors for business and won't have much touristy time.
Have you looked at living like an expat who spend half a year in a place and the other in another? I think it is rather easy to do a rental but most have another home.
I would like to live months here and there. The model of day jobs are a bit of a PITA for that. Maybe it's me being Millenial.
Europe has the advantage of being in range within 3h flights. That, from Barcelona.
Cities indeed have become more boring. Centers are for rich, also here. A neighbor of mine sold a flat she had in the dead center of Barcelona (for the now small house in my town) and that was bad business, because the center is now basically rich only living.
I was looking at some 80s-90s NY vids and reportages and it looked very characterful (and dangerous).
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Jorde,
I think there is a loophole that the rich/wealthy use to avoid paying taxes and that is to live in no country for more than 90 days. It seems the 1% buy homes in cities all around the world and here in Madhattan there are entire blocks near 5th Avenue in the 70's where several blocks are homes that are only occupied for three months of the year and for nine months they are vacant.
If I am to be displaced, am forced to rent and never own, my thinking is to take advantage of this loophole like the rich, but this would really require simplifying life.
In a way I feel NYC abandoned me, used me to redevelop the city, and more or less has no place for me.
I'm okay with moving on. I have mucho/enough NYC images to print, I have lived as fully as I can here, and there are other places in the world...
It seems there will be lots of travel in my future, so my home base could be anywhere, and Europe has cities that are grouped together. Already I can see that NYC is a bit remote from the rest of the world that Maggie is part of. London, Paris and Milan are much more important than NYC in the world of Fashion, and it seems China will bump New York shortly as far as importance.
Maggie is really close to setting up her retirement, and while I'm behind her, my retirement I hope to make real ASAP so I can blow this hot dog stand. If I didn't need to keep this day job I'd be traveling with her, but would be wandering around cities on my own. I would expect about a quarter to a third of the year would be traveling, so how much of a home base would I need?
Cal
