Why!

[kefallon]

A hugely rhetorical question this, but i am going to share it anyway

Why am i sat here looking at of my office window and huge downpours of rain with a paper inbox piled up to the celing and more e-mails an hour than you can imagine
When
I should be sat in the Ionian Plaza with a large glass of G&T enjoying the Summer sun

I think i have it all wrong and need to move now not in a few years when rationally it all makes sense...this dichotomy is getting to me at present but i have a feeling the sane part of me will win and the move be put off for a few more years....oh well back to the e-mails

Think i will go and have a look later at a few pictures of the blue seas under the west coats road that blue mirage always cheers me up.

[KefaloniaNewHomes]

The UK does that to people. You keep thinking 'I need a bit longer to sort x and y out' and then you find out something else comes up that delays the dream from coming true.

I had the same dilemma a few years ago and then I realised I would never be truly ready for the big move. So I gave myself a deadline and went for it. It wasn't easy but have no regrets - yet!

Chris @ Kefalonia New Homes

[Rollo56]

I know exactly how you feel, We were in Kef in 2005 for the 8th time in 10 years in the August and we had been pondering about selling the house and the business (I had a pub at the time) and moving out there permenantly. At the time I was 51 and the wife 49, the wife said give it another 5 years and I'll take early retirement and we can get a litle bar in Kef. I came back in the October with 2 friends looking at property and there are 3 places we nearly bought by the St George on the Poros road from Skala, they are on the left as you drive to Poros after the hotel one behind the other each with it's own pool and parking. The 3 for 400,000 euro, the idea was to rent them out till we were ready to jump. Well in 2007, 6 months after my near *death experience,* they were going for 285,000 EACH! This is when the proverbial started hitting the fan. I put the pub on the market £285,000, this was in the August after we arrived back, in September I had an offer and said yes. Six weeks later the woman who was buying asked if I could drop £35k? I asked why, she said, "The bank has asked her for a bigger deposit" I thought she was trying it on, as she had spent some money on the valuation and search. I said I couldn't so she went away, then the estate agent rang and said she had pulled out because the bank wouldn't lend any more money. This proved to be the start of the rot I had various buyers come in then each one dropping £50k a time off the price. Since we have had the recession and it's no better, I did manage to sell but only at £120k LESS than my original offer at christmas 2009. So back to the drawing board. * This is another story. We should be over by the end of the month, alas for now only a visit.