Blue, blue, blue
Usually the sky is blue... today it is gray, but inside my new Tete house everything is BLUE!
We moved to a house in town... I've mentioned the challenges of living on the "wrong" side of the Zambezi River during the bridge renovations... we looked for a house for over a year and finally have found something to move into!
There are problems: for $500/mo in Tete, you don't get much. In Chimoio, you get a palace for the same price! But here in "boomtown" things are different. We have a downstairs 3 bedroom 'duplex". We have quiet neighbors upstairs who have a pretty tropical garden, but we have a sandy, patchy grass, flooding when it rains... sewer-smelling garden. We've had the plumbing worked on, but there is more to do. The upstairs very effectively blocks the hot sun from baking our roof! So we are quite comfortable without air-conditioning... as long as a fan is blowing!
For now, we are enjoying living and working on the same side of the bridge. I spend more time working and less time in the car driving kids around. The kids spend less time in the car and have more time to play and relax a bit before doing homework. We can pick up fresh bread, fruit and veg, meat and everything just blocks away. We can walk to the pharmacy in about 5 minutes and I can walk to the Dep of Education in about 10 minutes.
Only question is how much renovation is it worth putting into the place to live comfortably for a year... or do we go for the long-term lease idea and make it home? Right now, that's my vote. I'll update you on The Hill later in the week... or month...
We moved to a house in town... I've mentioned the challenges of living on the "wrong" side of the Zambezi River during the bridge renovations... we looked for a house for over a year and finally have found something to move into!
There are problems: for $500/mo in Tete, you don't get much. In Chimoio, you get a palace for the same price! But here in "boomtown" things are different. We have a downstairs 3 bedroom 'duplex". We have quiet neighbors upstairs who have a pretty tropical garden, but we have a sandy, patchy grass, flooding when it rains... sewer-smelling garden. We've had the plumbing worked on, but there is more to do. The upstairs very effectively blocks the hot sun from baking our roof! So we are quite comfortable without air-conditioning... as long as a fan is blowing!
For now, we are enjoying living and working on the same side of the bridge. I spend more time working and less time in the car driving kids around. The kids spend less time in the car and have more time to play and relax a bit before doing homework. We can pick up fresh bread, fruit and veg, meat and everything just blocks away. We can walk to the pharmacy in about 5 minutes and I can walk to the Dep of Education in about 10 minutes.
Only question is how much renovation is it worth putting into the place to live comfortably for a year... or do we go for the long-term lease idea and make it home? Right now, that's my vote. I'll update you on The Hill later in the week... or month...
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