Homes

It looks like Autumn is coming early this year. I don't mind; I don't do well in hot weather anyway. I can't imagine me ever moving to a hot country, for example. I'm not too keen on freezing every winter either, so a move to Finland or Alaska is off the cards. Rain, I don't mind. Wind, I can tolerate. Noise, I can't abide. The older I get, the more I have come to dislike traffic noise, though I have to endure it as I live not only in an urban area but on a road which some people seem to think is a race track.

I sometimes daydream of living in the middle of nowhere, in a rural idyll, in a cottage by a lake. Scotland, maybe? But then I remember that I can't drive and so the practicalities of remote areas - getting groceries delivered, reaching a doctor, for example - would become major obstacles. In fact, it'd rapidly become a menace.

Recently I watched a YouTube video in which a couple were viewing a remote cottage with a view to buying it. The track stopped half a mile away from the cottage, so they'd either have to build a road (pricey!) or trek along a rough, uneven, muddy narrow track with their shopping, a task which would probably take several trips to and from their car. The novelty of that would soon wear thin, especially in winter and when you've also got a cold. Also, they needed room for a home office and an art studio. The upstairs level of the cottage seemed ideal as it was one big room, until they discovered that they couldn't actually stand upright in it. That, too, would get old fast. They didn't buy it, no surprise.

What's your dream home like? Is there a specific location where you'd love to live?