A place to live...

The Mission Creek Trail, a quick
10 minute walk from my condo

The Okanagan housing market is absolutely insane right now. Basically, act fast or lose out. This not an ideal set up for someone who just moved here and has no idea where they want to live!

I had my heart set on downtown. I wanted in the action, the events, the coffee shops, the people watching. I wanted it all. And I got the total opposite!

It was a hard choice, but I have decided to live outside of the downtown core. Life is about compromises. This decision really taught me that. I also kept in mind some wise advice from a good friend: Be true to you. No matter what. I had some serious evaluating to do and hardly any time to actually think about it. Why did I come here? Why did I want out of Toronto? In being really true to me, though I was not ready to admit it to myself yet, I wanted easy access to the lake, bike paths and a quiet place to live, with an outdoor space. Thanks dad for helping me realize that. It can be easy to discredit how much others, outside observers, can really know us, sometimes before we even know ourselves.

My new outdoor space.
Disclaimer: this was taken well after move in day

So I did it. I was true to me. I moved here for many different reasons, but one of the things I really wanted was a change from was being right in the city. I wanted the outdoors. Bike paths. Lake access. Swimming. Walking trails. I signed my life away on the dotted line.

Reflections: making life decisions (that you think are big at the time) is tough. I wonder if I will ever get good at it? Or maybe these decisions are just not as big as we think they are?




And so the decision was made, my new home to be was almost mine... I just had to wait for move in day...