Desertbreh wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:29 pm
troyguitar wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:23 pm
People can visit, they just won't get free lodging. There's an airbnb about 30 feet from our house plus obviously hotels of every type along the beach.
I feel like that is the ideal scenario for everyone. There are literally two exceptions in the universe to the rule that I would rather just stay at a hotel regardless of cost because just as you want your freedumbs, I don't want to see you 24/7 either. The two exceptions are a single guy with a 5000 square foot house in the midwest, and one guy in the Pay Area whose wife literally takes offense to me not staying with them.
Both situations involve a lot of onsite cooking and drinking during the evenings, so I'm ok with that.
Our house, while small, is duplicated downstairs, so guests have a bedroom and bathroom all to themselves all wrapped in a concrete shell. You can't tell anyone is down there when they are, it's pretty solid when everyone wants some downtime.
I think the wife wanted to
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her SoCal family with where we live since they assume everything between LA and NYC is just flat farm frozen wasteland. They were properly
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by it here. "it looks just like the ocean" or "I feel like I'm in the Bahamas", etc.
SoCal and Hawaii is still way better apparently, had to field countless mentions of "so when do you move back", but once word of my remote job HQd in NYC started flying, the assumption is we're moving to NYC. Nobody could possibly bear living in the middle of nowhere like we do for long, let's be real right?! Reality is, I never would've taken a job in NYC if it didn't let me live in the middle of nowhere. I look forward to visiting, NFW am I living there.