Question for the crowd. Look carefully at today’s picture.
Would you rather live by the sea and commute to work in the city below?
or
Would you rather live in the city and commute to work by the sea?
Leave your comments below.
In case you are wondering, this is in Greece. Fira, Santorini.
What I Am Looking for (Dan Balow)
I am not a city boy,
of that I am quite sure;
critters are my pride and joy,
and I smell vaguely of manure.
Days start ‘fore cock-a-doodle-doo,
and end when sun goes down,
and it’s really best that you
don’t take me into town,
’cause I don’t have the patience for
swells’ patronizing lip
when for gals I hold the door,
and the Colt upon my hip
will mark me as Primitive Man,
which is, I guess, just what I am.
This describes my farming family – plain good people. And your comment came in before sunrise. Love it. Sharing your poem with my family.
Live by the sea and work from home 🤪
I knew instantly where that was, Thira. I have climbed up from the old port on the back of a donkey that alternated by trying to perch me into the sea and scrub me against the mountainside. It was a memorably frightening experience.
Worth doing precisely once, notwithstanding the view from the top being the definition of breathtaking.
Since the lower level by the sea looks like it’s only a port, I’d rather live on top of the cliff with stunning sea views writing from my home office overlooking the sea. Stunning views!
Thomas is right. Those switchbacks give a clue about how steep that mountain is. Commuting between sea and city (which is not at the sea, but on top of the mountain) is not feasible. I am more a water than a mountain person, so I would find a nice place in the port, and write a dozen books or so, when not fishing or tooling around the sea. I lived in Italy for a decade, and know the general area. Natural, (and human) beauty abounds.
After a long morning of fishing I had to haul my catch of the day up that hill to supply local restaurants, I might retire early to Milan.
By the sea…just looking at those switchbacks makes me dizzy.