You have to really want to live abroad to put yourself through the seemingly endless list of requirements AND to navigate them in a foreign language. It makes you appreciate what you might have taken for granted in your home country.
It’s not that complicated but requires more than a one-sentence answer, so I often feel like Lucy Ricardo with a lot of ‘splaining to do.
Many of you will think we’re crazy and I’m used to that. Hopefully, some will find this illuminating for your own way of living with less.
Our problems have a way of sneaking into our luggage when we’re not looking. They don’t call it baggage for nothing.
He waxed on about the gorgeous mountains, the European lifestyle, and that Valencia boasts of 300+ days of sunshine a year. When he added “It’s got beaches” he knew he had my attention.
