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Your Day Awayâ„¢ 2008

September 30, 2008 By pia

There’s much about the bail out plan I don’t approve and find scary. But I have gone through about twelve days like Monday in the past ten months and find them even scarier. A bit of me wishes this apartment sale hadn’t gone through as I can easily find a decent job in New York. And while I’m not as scared as I was Monday I’m frightened. I have big loss days and they come back somewhat but never fully. I’m diversified. I sold some stuff to stop the hemorrhaging. Still it was worse than ever on Monday. I really enjoyed this article
. And I know it was my choice to live a life outside the mainstream. I haven’t really really wondered about that until this past weekend. And then came Monday. I’m better now. What will be will be. I’m relatively young, healthy and capable of earning a living. It will be on my terms as the move is so I’m damn lucky and never ever forget that

This has been a seriously weird year as more than anything, almost, I care about my writing. I did get thrown off track when I became a political blogger four years ago but I always kept writing.
Selling the apartment while there was still a market for imperfect one bedrooms became the focal point of my life. I know many writers will say I’m not really a writer as I didn’t practice every day–but I did write things for publication. I guess being out of the blogging game makes everything feel strange to me as it was a centering point. Then it wasn’t….I will be writing more and talking less about it.

In two weeks two days–but who is counting?–I begin a new life.

While I look for a house I will also be a coordinator for
Your Day Awayâ„¢ 2008.

It’s similar to the Make a Wish foundation but for caretakers of people with disabilities. If anybody knows a family, in the Myrtle Beach area, please let me know. Same with hotels, restaurants, uh theme parks and dinner theaters

Your Day Awayâ„¢ 2008 will coincide with the publication of the book “Alphabet Kids: From ADD To Zellweger Syndrome: A Guide to Developmental, Neurobiological and Psychological Disorders For Parents and Professionals” by Robbie Woliver, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, November 15, 2008.

I have known Robbie since I was eighteen and wrote the intro to the chapter on NLD. It’s some of my best writing ever. Still I have to buy my own copy….

Robbie has always found my e_sistental crises funny, though he was a prime person in the campaign to keep me in New York. A lot of people like me in Manhattan. Sometimes I feel like a caged animal in the zoo

That does give me the right to say I strongly believe in term limits. I understand that this recent Wall Street mess was without precedent and hit too many of us in our pocketbooks. The last thing most people in the city need is a seven percent increase in property ta_es, effective immediately. I understand that property ta_es are low.

However when you sell you give the city 1.45% for any sale over 500K and one percent for any sale under that. Combined with a state ta_ of two dollars for every five hundred, a building “flip” ta_. In my case of two percent, a si_ percent fee to the realtor and assorted other fees the net profit is way lower than the gross.

I think that’s all fair providing that property and other ta_es aren’t increased. You know that the price of fuel and everything else will go up drastically.

That said I can’t imagine loving anyplace the way I do Manhattan and uh Long Island and I hope that my enforced, asked for volunteer job at Your Day Away will help provide a bridge to my new community.

Filed Under: New York Stories, north myrtle beach Tagged With: actual costs of leaving Manhattan, bloomberg, finally getting ready to move, manhattan, myrtle beach, New York Stories, north myrtle beach, Your day away

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Comments

  1. sage says

    September 30, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    Getting close!

  2. Janet says

    September 30, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Hey there, long time no speak. I hope you are doing well and all the changes this year bring you good things. I haven’t forgotten about you, just been extremely busy. I hope to be back in touch on a regular basis!

  3. cooper says

    October 1, 2008 at 1:29 am

    Your Day Awayâ„¢ 2008 sounds awesome pia.

    By Thursday only two weeks.;)

  4. Bone says

    October 2, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    Two weeks and two days ago I turned 13,000 days old.

    Do you see the symmetry here?

    Freaky.

  5. Doug says

    October 3, 2008 at 11:46 am

    Your day away sounds laudable.

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

I'm a Long Island girl, and proud of it now.
Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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