Jane's Adventures in AmericaLatest Update: January 27 2006
Here is Verity demonstrating her early 21st Birthday present; no one is safe on the mountains now. |
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Those of you who want to know where the old website has gone can access it here in its new location We are still living on Long Island but as all our friends and family know four years is a long time for us to live in one place; so last year we decided to look for another house: fewer bedrooms now Verity has gone to college but with more land for the dogs. Our search was long and frustrating. It didn't help that we had conflicting views on what we wanted from our new home. We knew we needed more space for the dogs to run around. But we also wanted to be closer to the city so we could take advantage of the theatre, concerts and restaurants. We began by looking at Brooklyn. trying to find a reasonably priced brownstone in or near to Park Slope so we could let the dogs run in Prospect Park. Everything we saw was either dark and in the snowstorms of March 2003, depressing too. We ran the Jackie Robinson P'way to Steve's office, and the LIE too, but it took forever to cover just a few miles. So we abandoned our search for a few months. Then one rainy day in June (winter went on until mid-July that year) we were out driving near Centerport, Long Island when we happened upon an Open House. We looked inside and the house was ok but the land was great and the situation - near the beach - was even better. We hesitated for weeks, but we realised we weren't ready to move. | Our house in Port Washington had so many advantages; great light; a new kitchen that I loved, easy access to the City that we couldn't bear to leave it. We decided to stay for a while and put the house on the market in Spring 2004. But that house in Centerport became "the one that got away". After weeks of remorse, recriminations and blame we put our house on the market. Fortunately as it turned out, we couldn't make a sale and there was nothing we wanted to buy. Or at least nothing we could afford. We took the house off the market and went back to the original plan. In Spring 2004 we geared ourselves up to move and, to our amazement, sold our place at the first Open House. Then we set about finding a new one. Coincidentally the only house I had seen that I liked, that we couldn't possibly afford, was also back on the market at a new and much more attractive price, so we put in an offer and, to cut a long story short, we moved from Port Washington to Huntington Bay on June 29 2004. We were supposed to find a smaller house with more property: we got 10x the land but also twice the size house. Luckily the previous owner left us the great room furniture otherwise we would have been very empty indeed. Now we are doing some renovations : new windows, flooring and lights and trying to enjoy the pool and the beach. We've already had the first wave of guests and the house is too big for just the two of us, so come visit us soon. |
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