Great photo, my good friend is from Montreal and he is unfortunately moving back there in six months. I'm going to miss having him around but I'm excited to go visit him once he is there. I hear wonderful things. The topic this week is a very prescient one as I've been thinking about "home" a lot. A few months back I put our house on Zillow's "make me move" service, in which you can name a price for your home that would "make you and your family move." Turns out that somebody wants our house and has put in an official offer. We have an inspection on the 20th and close on January 13th. This is all happening very quickly. We need to find a new home to either buy or rent. I've looked at probably 20 different options in the last four days. Looking at other homes will help you more appreciate what it is you love about your current home. The more houses I see, the more I question whether we should sell. But, I'm also considering, for the first time ever, purchasing a home that needs renovations in order to make it more of my home and less of me buying someone else's vision, you know what I mean? Here is my current home: Here is the place I'm considering renovating: but when I think of "home" there is one house that stands out over all others and that is my grandparents house on my dad's side. We called it "The Stone House." My grandparents sold the home several years ago. Someday I will buy it again and allow any relative of mine to stay there anytime. If your last name is Clausnitzer you will be able to stay at the Claus-House. -A "home" for all wayward krauts.
I'm kind of hunting for a new home right now too, except I'm looking for a new city in a new country rather than a new house. 13 job interviews in the past week--a lot of them terrible jobs though. I've been thinking about my past and current homes a lot recently, and thinking about how much easier it would be to stay in a comfortable familiar place. Your current home actually reminds me of my grandma's house a bit, so I feel a little nostalgic looking at that photo. :)
Good luck with the job interviews. If you could live in any of the places that are on your list of options, which would it be? We actually decided tonight that we should rent for a while and take our time to figure things out instead of quickly buying. I really love both of the homes pictured though. Ranch style homes are often associated with grandparents :) Not sure why. I find them to be my favorite types of homes because they sprawl over a lot. I'm not much of a fan of two story condensed living.
I'm looking mainly in Seoul or several smaller cities near Seoul, but it's looking increasingly like anywhere that will offer me a half decent job. I think it's both the ranch style and the giant trees around it that make me think of my grandma's house. The house I grew up in was a newer one so the trees where I lived were all quite small, but all of my grandparents had older houses with huge trees in their yard. I always loved the trees at their houses because they looked so much more impressive.