Home is now more like it!
I made the big move a bit more than two months ago. It took me years in achieving this one. I used to be easy to move from one place to another. This time it seems I would never make it
I would call it not short of a miracle , for I struggled so much to be able to get this house. It was on sale and could not afford the price tag or any price tag for that matter. I negociated a deal with the owners. I am renting the house for one year and then I am buying it. We have a sort of binding contract funelling my options towards that end
It is BIG: around 3500 sq feet or 350 m². Located at 1700 feet (510 m) on a mountain slope at 2½ miles from the Maine/New Hampshire border it is quite peculiar. Such a house in Metropolis would cost around 10 times more than the money I have to come up with to pay for it. It is remote. It is even insane to come and stay here in a sense. It has to be a sort of self-running venture for nothing else around here will make this place an attraction, except maybe for Mount Megantic which has an observatory and the border trails just down the road here. There are 110 km (70 miles) of border trails for hiking right on the U.S./Canada border
Yet I deeply needed to get out of the city I could not handle the noise and the stress anymore and since I was working from home I considered this time was the best time to try to make the move. This house is by far the best thing I could have found considering my situation It has plenty of room, the equivalent of 17 rooms altogether, 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, big balconies overlooking the mountains, a living room big like a Metropolis apartment It still has room the size of an apartment that need to be exploited. It is on pillars right now
The summer are rather on the cool side which make me think the winter are going to be deep-freezing! I don't mind that as long as I can fix the heating system. One of the pleasure of being here for me is exactly that: fixing things. The last owner even built an elevator for the three floors! He probably spent quite a bit of money on that endeavour and in the end abandoned the idea. The cage is still there with a door for each floors. On each floor the elevator space look more like a wardrobe area than an elevator. I will thus use this as the central air heating system I have to conceive the whole thing from scratch. So far I talk to an engineer about my plan and he is quite positive about its working.
This place is a perfect setting for small meetings of all sorts: spiritual, literary, work related, political, etc. It can shelter 5 couples nicely. I would like it to become also an art gallery and other attractions linked to cultural activities. I am an eternal dreamer...
I would call it not short of a miracle , for I struggled so much to be able to get this house. It was on sale and could not afford the price tag or any price tag for that matter. I negociated a deal with the owners. I am renting the house for one year and then I am buying it. We have a sort of binding contract funelling my options towards that end
It is BIG: around 3500 sq feet or 350 m². Located at 1700 feet (510 m) on a mountain slope at 2½ miles from the Maine/New Hampshire border it is quite peculiar. Such a house in Metropolis would cost around 10 times more than the money I have to come up with to pay for it. It is remote. It is even insane to come and stay here in a sense. It has to be a sort of self-running venture for nothing else around here will make this place an attraction, except maybe for Mount Megantic which has an observatory and the border trails just down the road here. There are 110 km (70 miles) of border trails for hiking right on the U.S./Canada border
Yet I deeply needed to get out of the city I could not handle the noise and the stress anymore and since I was working from home I considered this time was the best time to try to make the move. This house is by far the best thing I could have found considering my situation It has plenty of room, the equivalent of 17 rooms altogether, 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, big balconies overlooking the mountains, a living room big like a Metropolis apartment It still has room the size of an apartment that need to be exploited. It is on pillars right now
The summer are rather on the cool side which make me think the winter are going to be deep-freezing! I don't mind that as long as I can fix the heating system. One of the pleasure of being here for me is exactly that: fixing things. The last owner even built an elevator for the three floors! He probably spent quite a bit of money on that endeavour and in the end abandoned the idea. The cage is still there with a door for each floors. On each floor the elevator space look more like a wardrobe area than an elevator. I will thus use this as the central air heating system I have to conceive the whole thing from scratch. So far I talk to an engineer about my plan and he is quite positive about its working.
This place is a perfect setting for small meetings of all sorts: spiritual, literary, work related, political, etc. It can shelter 5 couples nicely. I would like it to become also an art gallery and other attractions linked to cultural activities. I am an eternal dreamer...
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