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several years ago, I was "forced" to live for 14 months in a 1-bed room suite at the Intercontinental in an undisclosed foreign city. Actually, my company was too cheap
to rent me a "real" apartment because it was cheaper to put me up at the hotel. To be fair, this was a real nice hotel... what Intercontinental isn't? :) The room had a mini kitchen and a couple of 50" LCD TVs. I have room service dinner 2 or 3 times a week. Breakfast was also delivered by room service monday to friday. (all paid for by my company) I also had access to the lounge which had free cocktails in the evenings. You would think that I enjoyed my stay... NOT.... I started to feel like a goldfish after a couple of months. :( |
Update 9/2010
It's now been 4.5 months that I've been "homeless". The following points should be noted:
-I've saved at least $600 a month and been able to see lots of cities in the US that I've been meaning to visit -It feels great not "having" to be somewhere each weekend to check the mail or clean the kitchen, etc. -My social calendar is much better and expanded by visiting people I haven't seen in years -Averaging about 27 nights per month in hotels and 3 nights camping (I do enjoy camping so this is good) The major negative is that I don't have a "Base", and sometimes it would be nice to settle down for more than one week at a time and be able to organize things. The best positive is the feeling that if I want to go to NYC and rent a furnished place for a month or two, I can. If I want to camp for a month in the everglades, I can. The freedom is exhilirating. |
Originally Posted by moman
(Post 14700705)
It's now been 4.5 months that I've been "homeless". The following points should be noted:
-I've saved at least $600 a month and been able to see lots of cities in the US that I've been meaning to visit -It feels great not "having" to be somewhere each weekend to check the mail or clean the kitchen, etc. -My social calendar is much better and expanded by visiting people I haven't seen in years -Averaging about 27 nights per month in hotels and 3 nights camping (I do enjoy camping so this is good) The major negative is that I don't have a "Base", and sometimes it would be nice to settle down for more than one week at a time and be able to organize things. Glad that it's working out for you! I think it would be interesting to try this, but I still feel that I would want a place of my own.. The best positive is the feeling that if I want to go to NYC and rent a furnished place for a month or two, I can. If I want to camp for a month in the everglades, I can. The freedom is exhilirating. |
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