Hello, I am WillyWanker and I am (soon to be) in Palm Springs. My partner and I used to live in Beverly Hills California and we sold our house and packed our stuff and went traveling around the world for close to two years. We lived in Asia and South America and basically traveled to wherever the mood would strike us. If we enjoyed a town or city, we stayed, if we did not we got on our macs and decided where we would head off to next. after living in a large Beverly Hills hosue with all the luxuries that the city implies, we really pared down to basic needs and we lived with one roll~away each and one bag filled with medicines in case one of us got sick (courtesy of The Beverly Hills Travel Doctor). Our experience was as wonderful and magical as anyone could hope for. We visited pretty much every site we had been wanting to see, we lived for a few months in Buenos Aires where my partner took Spanish lessons, as well as working on his tennis game. Then we bought a penthouse apartment on one of Santiago de Chile's most beautiful streets. But after touring and experiencing so many exotic sights and places, we decided that it was time to come back home to the U.S.
We sold our house in Beverly Hills in 2004 and made a killing on the sale, as we had purchased it for peanuts in 1996. It was a stunning mid~century house designed in 1947 and was owned by Adolph Zukor for a time. Published and looking every bit as glamourous as a house in that neck of the woods should look. So we took our profits and set off. Then when we decided to come back to the U.S., we chose Palm Springs as the next chapter in our lives. My partner and I have been together since 1982 and we have had a wonderful time sharing all our experiences with one another. He is my best friend, partner and lover.
Meanwhile, we came back to California and set out to Palm Springs in early 2006. We had been following the real~estate market and had been gaging the intensity of sales and the heated transactions with skepticism. Everyone and their brother was in some way form or fashion tied to the real estate market here in the desert. Everyone was buying and selling and making outrageous amounts of money and it all seemed to easy and unreal and unsustainable. As, of course, it was.
'Buy NOW or you will be PRICED OUT!!!' were the cries from agents and 'concerned friends'.
I'll have to continue tomorrow. It's time to sit and have a glass of Lambrusco and watch Golden Girls for a bit.
WillyWanker
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