Samal Island Retirement – Reason #1
2008 December 13
Spokane, WA - first snow storm of the season
2008 2nd Storm
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Is that your house, Randy? I like the looks of the place, it’s got character.
Hmm… snow? I can understand reason #1! Is this going to be a series of articles with all the different reasons? Or is snowstorm #1 reason #1, snowstorm 2 of the season will be reason 2, etc.?
Hi Bob – yeah, that’s our place. It was built in 1927. I like old houses and never felt as comfortable in a newer one. We’ve got wood floors, wood mouldings, original kitchen and the whole bit. Like all old homes, it keeps me busy with one thing after another.
I was kind of thinking of doing a photo series of different reasons as they came up, but it could very well go they way of your suggestion, if this winter ends up like last year. I was ready to move after that, as was about half of the town I think.
It’s not too bad out today. Currently 22 out. That’s fahrenheit not celsius BTW, for those thinking it sounds pretty warm.
Hi Randy, like old houses too because I appreciate “real” wood. Lots of houses over 100 years old in Norway, and I can’t help but walk around them, touching everything. I know how you feel about the upkeep – lived in Burnaby built in early 1920s, and also in Norway, built around 1900. Miss the snow.
Hi Ellen – I bet there were some pretty neat houses in Norway. Probably a lot different than here. It would be cool to see those and compare the difference.
Looking forward to the day that I can say, “I miss the snow”, too.
this USA economy goign bad SUCKS BIG i am trying to sell ALL i own to move to samal and things are not going good. i sold my trees on my farm to buy samal land and mango trees. Now every sawmill is full of lumber inventory, and no one is buying anything. So going to samal is taking too much time. i own 2 beach properties there now but only Small 1 hectare ones. I am used to livng on 120 or 150 acres as i ahev lived on 3 us farms. So living on 2 acres sounds sucky. I hope no one developes the island because I like being very reclusive. what is it like in samal i have never been there
Hi Howard – welcome and thanks for your comment.
The island definitely has a lot of development going on. Depending where your land is, you might not see much of it. Quite a bit of it (at least three subdivisions) is very near our land and we will be keeping an eye on the situtation there. If it gets too crowded we are thinking we would move to the east side of Samal or possibly to Bukidnon. We have a lot of time to see how that works out.
The positive aspect of all the development is the increased value of the land. So if it comes down to us needing to live elsewhere, we should make out OK on the land.
The economy is hurting everybody.