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Summerside PE offers quite a low cost of living, and for the time being, any other place we try to live will need to compare favorably on basic living expenses. For our purposes, “basic living expenses” includes housing, taxes, insurance, food, electricity, heating or cooling, and communications. Put differently, we need to be warm, dry, [...]

There was a great post on Treehugger recently that I’ve bookmarked for more serious contemplation. Although they may be neither popular, nor well known, there are alternatives to the two major housing options of “buy” vs. “rent.”  It seems like every day I personally vacillate between wanting to live in a Parisian apartment overlooking local [...]

I’m so used to giving people the 10-second-elevator-talk answer to this question, I’ll see whether I can actually remember the details accurately! It was winter, somewhere between 2003 – 2004. My math tutoring business was off to a strong start, we were living in Bavyiew Mews (still one of my favourite places we’ve lived — [...]

Four more nights on this rotten sofabed. Four more nights in Toronto before we begin our adventure in Dauphin, Manitoba. We won’t be there until June 25, but there’s the small matter of a trip to Como, Italy in the interim, so that means only four more nights in Toronto. But why move? It’s step [...]