an actual useful place to live.
Well, if you're going to change the ground rules...
ita, your people in Kenya are amazing. I kind of want her around me at all times.
When we visited, her husband was driving us through downtown Nairobi and suddenly we heard reports of machine gun fire. Like, not news reports--the sounds of machine guns. Which I could have said, but why backspace when you can ramble? ANYWAY. Machine guns go off, somewhere. Everyone but two of us in the Range Rover duck. The driver, S's husband, pulls a U-turn over the embankment (he showed me what the U in SUV meant that week, between this and the Rift Valley) between lanes and jets out of the area. Me, I'm meerkatting to see if I can find where the ruckus is.
Yes, I'm an idiot. But I am the idiot who taught him basic fighting skills with his collapsible batons, and it might be the most useful lesson I ever taught, and the best remunerated I would ever be.
This is where I mention, houses are about $95/sq ft in my area... and lower, of course.
and there is a house down the street from me for sale.
msbelle, that's where we come up against the "is it really worth it to live there?" question -- not that you're not a BIG ATTRACTION to the area, but for me the hot humid weather, not to mention the local politics and social support are deal breakers.
(Whereas the South of France has good social support, wonderful weather. My lack of French could be worked on, since if I can magically conjure enough money to buy my own castle, I'll conjure enough more to hire an in-house language tutor.)
Plus, I've been told and choose to believe, older women get treated respectfully in France.
why backspace when you can ramble?
ita !, I stared at this for a while, wondering why it wasn't parsing, until I realized - in one of her Spider-man novels, Diane Duane described automatic weapons fire as sounding like "someone holding down backspace on an electric typewriter".
(I guess you'd know now - does it?)
Theo - I hear you on all that (but where I am is really not that humid).
btw - was listening to this program on my npr station when I went to get lunch. Might be of interest to many here [link]
about the rise of people living alone in the last 60 years.
I guess you'd know now - does it?
You know, I have remarkably little experience with electric typewriters! I went almost from manual to computers, thanks to growing up in Jamaica. So I only have the other side of that experience tattooed into my brain (unsurprisingly, it is).
I intend to fire one (it's not a bucket list thing, it's a "not while my head hurts so much" thing) sometime--at least before I have any overt intention of using an electric typewriter.
Castle-priced, but all updated since it's been used as a guest house for the last whatever years. Walking distance from tons of stuff. 10 bedrooms plus a separate apartment in back. Come on, Buffistas, who wants to pool funds and move to San Francisco?
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