Yes, Frazz, yes it is. Youth is wasted on the young. You don’t have to worry about life and making decisions. Take advantage of it and stop worrying about growing up.
My aunt’s family has a vacation cabin they never use. They tried to get my family to start using it. Said we could just pop in whenever we wanted. That cabin is a 12-hour drive from our house. We’ve never taken them up on the offer.
I’d absolutely hate being a kid at home again without the autonomy that I’ve become used to. Though I do like the whole “work at what… and when… you want” thing that I sort of almost kind of had then, and do have now that I’m retired. Sort of. Almost. Kind of.
One way I see it is people with cottages are not tied to the same place for all their vacations. People with cottages are fortunate enough to have found a place that speaks to them enough to spend most or all of their vacation time (and invest a fair amount of their fortune) there.
I’ve even found such a place. The problem is, I’ve found far too many of those places to lock myself into any one, even if I could afford to. Multiples are certainly out of the question. And I’m not done discovering yet.
What, you ask? What are some of those places? A fair question. Which I’ll answer, if you allow considerable slack for a list that is some combination of incomplete, impractical and unaffordable.
A very specific house in a small town in Marin County, California, though a number of other houses there or nearby would probably do almost as well. San Francisco itself (impractical and unaffordable to the max, but without it the list would definitely be incomplete). Nova Scotia; probably just about anywhere in Nova Scotia, though I’ve only been Halifax and east. If I could spend enough time in my cottage to return to my old love, cycling, and assuming the area hasn’t changed, Brown County, Indiana. And I love my Great Lakes, and any Great Lake I could swim in safely and regularly, but the Straits speak to me loudest.
That’s about it, if the tip of the iceberg is “about it.” And for me to spend enough time there to make it worthwhile and not just a tease, I would of course have to have good enough broadband to do my job from there. Which means I understand the cottage concept very well, or not at all.
How about you? What — or, rather, where — speaks to you? Where’s your home that’s not your address?
kwells328 almost 5 years ago
Yes, Frazz, yes it is. Youth is wasted on the young. You don’t have to worry about life and making decisions. Take advantage of it and stop worrying about growing up.
MS72 almost 5 years ago
so, what’s up with “cottage cheese”? Is that a building material?
sandpiper almost 5 years ago
Kid is saying: just for once, I’d like to pick where we go for vacation. A child’s dream usually deferred in the face of convenience or budget.
MichaelHelwig almost 5 years ago
These kids spend more time with the janitor than they do in class.
Herb L 1954 almost 5 years ago
It depends where the cottage is located.Up North,Traverse City area.That would be my choice.Champagne dreams,on a Ripple budget ;(
Jug of Voodoo almost 5 years ago
My aunt’s family has a vacation cabin they never use. They tried to get my family to start using it. Said we could just pop in whenever we wanted. That cabin is a 12-hour drive from our house. We’ve never taken them up on the offer.
asrialfeeple almost 5 years ago
If I knew then what I know now, I would’ve made different mistakes.
asrialfeeple almost 5 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-SC890E75g
Concretionist almost 5 years ago
I’d absolutely hate being a kid at home again without the autonomy that I’ve become used to. Though I do like the whole “work at what… and when… you want” thing that I sort of almost kind of had then, and do have now that I’m retired. Sort of. Almost. Kind of.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
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One way I see it is people with cottages are not tied to the same place for all their vacations. People with cottages are fortunate enough to have found a place that speaks to them enough to spend most or all of their vacation time (and invest a fair amount of their fortune) there.
I’ve even found such a place. The problem is, I’ve found far too many of those places to lock myself into any one, even if I could afford to. Multiples are certainly out of the question. And I’m not done discovering yet.
What, you ask? What are some of those places? A fair question. Which I’ll answer, if you allow considerable slack for a list that is some combination of incomplete, impractical and unaffordable.
A very specific house in a small town in Marin County, California, though a number of other houses there or nearby would probably do almost as well. San Francisco itself (impractical and unaffordable to the max, but without it the list would definitely be incomplete). Nova Scotia; probably just about anywhere in Nova Scotia, though I’ve only been Halifax and east. If I could spend enough time in my cottage to return to my old love, cycling, and assuming the area hasn’t changed, Brown County, Indiana. And I love my Great Lakes, and any Great Lake I could swim in safely and regularly, but the Straits speak to me loudest.
That’s about it, if the tip of the iceberg is “about it.” And for me to spend enough time there to make it worthwhile and not just a tease, I would of course have to have good enough broadband to do my job from there. Which means I understand the cottage concept very well, or not at all.
How about you? What — or, rather, where — speaks to you? Where’s your home that’s not your address?
childe_of_pan almost 5 years ago
I believe I would be content if I could just be the musician “then” that I am “now”.