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Post by richardw on Jan 16, 2014 13:14:46 GMT -5
So how do you even begin to conceptualise moving to a foreign country on the other side of the pacific? T Yes a big move but thanks to modern travel its nothing like it was for our ancestors,imagine sailing out of port looking back at your family knowing likely that you will never see them again,that would be tough. synergy- for me the thought of moving to a more sub tropical climate would be rather appalling,but reality is that every location has its own set of challenges and you will find that even on the Coromandel Peninsula also which can be prone to periods of heavy rainfall and high humidity. You will find that there's a already large number of like minded N Americans living here for the same reasons as yourself so i'm sure you'll feel at home in time.
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Post by steev on Jan 16, 2014 14:28:31 GMT -5
Depending on one's family, might not be so tough.
However, modern travel has certainly made us more mobile; the mechanic who re-builds my transmission is a Kiwi.
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Post by templeton on Jan 16, 2014 15:27:57 GMT -5
A brother in law and sister in law have just moved from Cairns in the tropical north of Oz to Ohakune in NZ. I admire those who can pull up roots and move. Despite a life of travel Eucalypt smoke is in my veins, I reckon. (I remember having a little cry over the smell of the leaves of the two big eucs growing in front of the post office in Kathmandu in my 20s ). I think there are quite a few expat Yanks in Tasmania as well, part of the whole vietnam war/exon valdez/MAD exodus of the second half of last century. I've been playing the 'where do you want to live' thing with partner recently, but can't afford anywhere were we would want to go.
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Post by steev on Jan 16, 2014 17:46:13 GMT -5
If ever I needed to leave NorCal, I've long thought I'd go to the highlands of Guatemala; climate much like the Bay Area, although only two seasons (wet and dry), not to say the Bay Area has four well-defined seasons (it's ~70F right now, very clear and DRY; one hopes this is as anomalous a year as it seems). I'd miss plants that need chill, but I'd adjust; there are compensations: white pitahaya and Amanita caesaria, for instance.
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Post by synergy on Jan 17, 2014 3:32:28 GMT -5
I am from coastal islands of BC and a wet cool temperate climate is what I am used to, it is only a little warmer in winter there in Whangamata . I am thinking the Coromandel is not quite so subtropical as the Northland part of the North Island , I have heard it is more Mediteranean climate that our own gulf islands border on sub Mediteranean ( 8b US garden zone growing olives ) . My parents would likely see me as much as they do now as they are only in Canada 3 months each year at best. I think my kids might be swayed if there was a home there for extended stays and I would be required to maintain my Canadian citizenship and visitor status until I was accepted in residency so I would travel back and forth . Some of my family visiting have found it much like our Vancouver Island . Well it will be something to explore and see .
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Post by littleminnie on Jan 19, 2014 19:19:06 GMT -5
I organized my photos on photobucket. Glad to have it done. We have market once a month and I brought a few seed packets. A customer that couldn't make it is buying $20 worth from me via Paypal. I haven't sold that many before so that is nice. Seed starting won't begin until the last week of February. My mom will check in on those seeds while we go out of town.
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