New Walking Route

イギリスの田舎暮らしがとてもよかったので、アメリカに帰ってからの家探しも田舎暮らしを選びました。もともと引っ越し先が小さな街というのもあるけど、そのまた郊外の、農園の広がる地域、最寄りのスーパーまで7キロ弱というかなりの田舎になりました。裏庭を、普通に鹿の家族が横切っていきます。散歩道も林に囲まれてて、春になって木に葉っぱがついたらいい景色になるだろうな～、と楽しみにしています。

My new walking route is amazingly similar to my walking route in England. But I guess it is not that funny considering how our country living in England affected our "must-haves" when we were choosing a house to buy.

We had known back in the Desert that we didn't want to live in the planned development anymore. The HOA we lived in had more than 4,000 houses and the houses were just stacked on top of each other and we were provided with a thick stack of HOA rules. We used to even have a "3 shrub rule" that said we had to have at least 3 shrubs in the front yard.

But having lived in the country side of England , we pretty much solidified that our next house environment would be a bit more unique than a planned development. So it is: we chose a house in an unincorporated town where the property tax is half of what the house within the city limit would be.

Our house is on a dead-end street so it's very quiet and surrounded by woods, with a little peak of farmland down the hill. Luckily, unlike it was in England, the street is wide enough for 2 cars to pass by so I don't have to walk off the street when a car goes by.

It has gotten warm last week and the daffodils shot out in a matter of 2 days. We are really loving it here, Deep South!