Clojurians Log v2

This feels like rubbing salt in your wound but I had an EV charger fitted last month and it took about 2.5 hours! I do feel for you tho.

At the previous house, we needed a new 60 amp laid in but the main panel was right next to where the EV charger was going so it was an easy job. This house, not so much, with the garage detached and on the opposite side from the main panel 😐

I am sorry to hear that it’s taking so long, Sean… I knew that you were moving, where have you landed, mon ami?

Northeast Ohio, near Youngstown. About an hour from Cleveland, and an hour from Pittsburgh.

Oh cool - nice part of the country! I guess you decided to get out of the Bay Area while the going was good and save some money..?

I mean I am assuming that you were in a position to tele-commute and all that.

We found/bought the house back in February, closed in March, moved in stages in April (2,500 miles in a 12' cargo van with the cats in early April, then I flew home to oversee packing, and drove the 2,500 miles again in our car in late April). The California house is in escrow, should close in two weeks. We bought pretty much the "same" house here in Ohio for $205k and we're selling the California house for $990k. So this clears down absolutely all our debt and paves the way for retirement, whenever that comes.

I've been 100% remote working since 2009 (and hybrid for the two years before that). World Singles Networks has staff all over the world because of that.

Sounds like a great outcome, happy for you mon ami 🙂

The Bay Area is wonderful but far too expensive to consider retiring in -- we still had ten years left on the mortgage, and property taxes went up to $7,200 a year (c.f. $2,200 in Ohio). Plus $3k/year earthquake insurance we no longer need 🙂

Thanks! At the end of this month, I'll be a lot more relaxed 🙂

Yeah, that sounds like as good a reason as any, but now you’re a lot closer to really good pierogis too.

And Baked Potato soup (I believe that’s the real Pittsburgh speciality, at least according to Kevin Smith)

The local bar does deep-fried pierogies as an appetizer (they're delish!). The "Ohio thing" appears to be "white pizza with hot peppers" which is a white garlic sauce, cheese, and various pickled peppers in oil. I'm loving that 🙂 And much to my surprise, Ohio has some really great craft breweries -- so I pretty much only drink Ohio beer these days because there's so much good stuff to choose from locally. We even have a really great brewery less than two miles from the house now.

The downside is the weather -- it's much wetter and a lot more humid than the Bay Area which is taking some getting used to. Although, we're perfectly happy with snow in winter -- we've both missed that.

Sounds great - I have only visited Cleveland airport in Ohio - I was changing planes to fly to NYC from Toronto - but I’ve always wanted to see more of Ohio. I hope you enjoy it!

“Oh me-oh, oh my-oh, oh Cleveland Ohio” - one of my favourite CJ Cregg quotations from the West Wing… 😉

(Plus CJ is from Ohio, Dayton, to be precise)