March 24th - Back in Austin

March24th - Back in Austin


Arrived yesterday and spend the whole day doing laundry, working with the dogs- they have gotten very naughty – cleaning house pool and yard. It is leave -dropping time, they are everywhere!

How was it? I wish I could share a clear and precise answer, but I cannot. I loved the hustle bustle, although truth be told, it also got to be too much at times. Of course when you live there you do not spend as much time in the streets as I did. I saw millions of apartments, houses, neighborhoods and was awed by the expense of it all. If we sell this gigantic house we will be lucky to be able to buy a 2- bedroom apartment in Manhatten. Of course you can travel to suburbs (Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and even out of city, for less money and more space, but is that ok?

There are two dilemma at this moment ;

1) can we get something in a neighborhood we like that we can feel comfortable in, including the dogs?

2) do we want to live the full city life or maybe suburbs within reach of the city?

I don’t know.

The next step is going back, finding another sublet and looking and feeling some more, 3 weeks was in the end not very long.

Sarah got officially accepted at her college, all the more reason to find a rental, so I can be there in the beginning stages. This is a big challenge for her and could not have been further from her life now, which is safe, white/asian, warm weather, quiet and predictable. Fill in the blanks!
She woke up in sweat this morning, fearful that this was all a big mistake…

I will sign off for now and will not write the blog until I hope June/July, which is when I am planning to go back to New York.
Meanwhile investigating the real estate market here and getting the house ready to sell.

Thank you all for reading, it has been helpful for me as well to formulate what was happening, I felt very honored you wanted to know .