I love NYC, I really do. I love the business of it all, the trains, the noise, the throngs of people from everywhere. I can look passed not having family up here because all the excitement and the adventure of living on Manhattan. That being said, deep within is a longing for a much simpler existence...
I want to live in a nice cozy Hobbit-hole. I want to run in the fields around my little cottage and nearby village, ala Fable 1&2. I want to go back to a basic lifestyle. And yes, while I know it's quite glorified in my examples, I truly do feel that I'd be quite happy living out my days that way. Even in my chosen profession of the culinary field, my true passion can be found in the old school techniques. Garde Manger (the art of preserving food), specifically, was my favorite subject while in school.
So when a friend showed me this site: http://simondale.net/house/index.htm I think I may have fully fallen prey to it all... I can totally see myself there, sitting out on the front stone steps with a long wooden pipe as I wait for my sausages to finish smoking around the side the hill-house and the cheese to be fully pressed in the kitchen's larder.
Now I just gotta learn to be more of a craftsman, as well as all the zoning laws/codes when it comes to building houses...
I want to live in a nice cozy Hobbit-hole. I want to run in the fields around my little cottage and nearby village, ala Fable 1&2. I want to go back to a basic lifestyle. And yes, while I know it's quite glorified in my examples, I truly do feel that I'd be quite happy living out my days that way. Even in my chosen profession of the culinary field, my true passion can be found in the old school techniques. Garde Manger (the art of preserving food), specifically, was my favorite subject while in school.
So when a friend showed me this site: http://simondale.net/house/index.htm I think I may have fully fallen prey to it all... I can totally see myself there, sitting out on the front stone steps with a long wooden pipe as I wait for my sausages to finish smoking around the side the hill-house and the cheese to be fully pressed in the kitchen's larder.
Now I just gotta learn to be more of a craftsman, as well as all the zoning laws/codes when it comes to building houses...
mellythepirate:
i kind of have a crazy love/hate relationship with nyc too. i grew up in a town that probably has less people than live on my block, so i know what it's like to feel pulled in different directions. just stick it out though, i'm sure you'll grow to enjoy it even more and more as time goes on.