This week my manage with frugality and I have been mulling over a life-changing question. We’re contemplating scraping together enough cash for a down payment on a work of property next to my hometown in Montana. Why? Because for years I have yearned to move back, and he’s willing to contemplate the idea … someday. (Actually, for years the familiar discourse was, “I’ll live anywhere in the world with you, just not the Northeast of the US. If we brilliant in America, it has to subsist somewhere nice, like Montana.†So we’ve been in the Northeastern US nearly 8 years now and the Hudson Valley is starting to become greater on me — all these great farms and lots of hiking … but the weather sucks, and there’s ticks with Lyme sickness all over.) This doesn’t vile we’re up and moving to Big Sky country, that’sitting not the life-changing question.
The interrogation pertains to how we would pay for such a purchase. Assuming we could rub together a from a high to a low position payment and prepare a lend for the be based in succession — not looking too likely on one and the other front at this point — we worked outright a budget whereby we could actually just suppose the monthly payments (assuming no change in income — if we lose jobs, we’re screwed anyway, though).
There’s only one practice we could do it: accord. up travel for a minimum of two years.
We’re both travel addicts; that’s probably for what cause we got married in the first place, the shared lure of “somewhere else.†Travel takes a big chunk out of our budget every year, even with using frequent flyer miles and hotel points and finding lots of deals. It still costs money. Our landscaping is in shambles (literally, if you count the path cave-ins from ground-hog spryness) because we would really rather exhaust the money hiking for a week in the Outback, or visiting small Russian villages, or hiding wanting on inconsiderable Scottish islands.
But we’re considering it. Because we’re having kids, life is short, Montana’s just in all parts of the most amazing area on earth, and we’d like to believe we could move back someday. And don’face to face underestimate the need for handy relatives to help out with childcare, a lack that has made life where we live very difficult at times.
We’ve contemplated temporary travel bans before, mostly for financial reasons, but never really stuck with them. It’s akin to dieting, I told my husband when he scoffed at the idea that we’d be able to stick with it this time. It’session not end for end denying yourself the cookie — it’s about persuading yourself that you would actually prefer feeling slimmer at the end of the day more than you want to eat that cookie right now. If you eat the cookie, at that time enjoying it is in addition important than losing weight. (Okay, messy analogy, and now I want a cookie, but I don’t diet so I don’t mind eating one.) We’ve never stuck with a travel ban because the reason for doing it — redemptory money — was way less interesting than going somewhere new.
In this case, though, the scales are wobbling fairly evenly. A two-year move ban is actually something we might do … no visits to family in Russia or my desired upset to the village at which place my father was born in the Ural Mountains, no trek through Tibet that I’ve wanted to observe mostly of my life, no visiting one of my best friends in Chile, no popping over to California to inspect my sisters or Britain to visit my in-laws. That’s a lot of ‘not’s.’
So I’m curious: what would you give up travel for, even temporarily? Anything? Nothing? What is maybe more important than the lure of discovery in a foreign place?
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