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To: bentway who wrote (388794)	11/17/2018 3:08:40 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 541824

That's the thing - All my New Yorker friends always told me, "oh you can go to Central Park" and enjoy the nature or go to Robert Moses beach or whatever. But I rarely spend my summer time in NYC because I don't want to make an event of getting how I want the life to be; I want to be living it and be in the midst of it. I wanted more nature, patios, and cafes and for me, NYC has no appeal during summers. Fortunately, technology allows us to decouple from the geography. I've always felt fortunate that I live at this point in history where I can do this. For example, I spent one summer on a Mediterranean beach. It was conveniently 4 time zones away from NYC. My daily routine was to enjoy watching the sunrise on the sea, followed by 45 min of meditation, a nice breakfast followed by an enjoyable walk back to swim in the pool and/or horseback riding. After lunch, workday in NYC would just be starting and I'd login to work and do what I needed to remotely till evening. When workday was over in NYC, nightlife would start there: the lights, sounds, parties, etc. and dinner and nightlife begin much later there than in the US. I went back to NYC in late September just in time for what I consider the best time of the year there. I really enjoy the autumns in NYC and the winters are not too bad (mostly because I can go skiing), though all things equal, I'd rather spend the winters in the French Alps. BTW, thanks to the large number of tourists and business visitors, NYC has always had a robust short-term furnished rental industry. So the off-shore stay can actually be cheaper than what you'd spend at home. And these days, thanks to AirbNb, most people can do the same outside of NYC. . . . But more to the point, I use beach-person vs mountain-person in the same way that some use cat-person vs dog-person; it's more about a person's attitudes and likes than the actual cat/dog or beach/mountain.