harbors
by rantywoman
I’m also trying to figure out whether I should rent my place or sell it this time around.
I have enjoyed the “safety net” feeling this condo has provided me– the sense that I have a home in the world.
So why would I sell it? Because although I’ve made many acquaintances here in the past six months, and I’ve reconnected with two or three friends in a way that could have grown stronger if I’d stayed, and I have some sense of how I could build a community here, at the present moment I don’t have strong enough ties to warrant a visit back after I leave. So why keep the property?
I may rent it for a year just in case, but I think holding onto it long-term is holding onto a fading illusion.
thebitterbabe 
Sell it. Go 100% into your new life.
Happy Christmas ranty!
That is definitely my inclination. I can’t imagine coming back again with even weaker ties here. But losing my security blanket will feel a bit scary…
Happy Christmas and here’s to a great New Year!
Your security blanket will be in the bank ready to be draped around you as needed in your new home place.
Yes, I suppose I should take that leap of faith that if I want to make a change again in the future, I will have the nest egg from my condo to do so and will have somewhere I want to go with it and people/a person to go with me.
I have several options: keep this job until my early fifties and then reconsider communal/simple living again (with improved finances and some pension money kicking in from my various positions); keep this job for several years and use it as a step to something even more ambitious in my career field; keep it until I’m in my sixties and retire from it (if I enjoy it well enough); keep it until my early fifties and formulate another career at that point.
It seems like a nice place to live– on the beach, no commute. Perhaps I will settle in for a longer haul than I think.
On the beach, no commute? Say yes please and sign that contract. You know how to find us invisible nomos now and feel better abour yourself – you’ll make new friends to match version 2.0 you. Thank your condo for being your home in this time of transition, then phone the estate agent. Stop planning for your sixties, let life take the lead. I think there’s a whole lot of adventure coming your way.
Thanks for the boost of encouragement! I need it…