Typical... For us, anyway

We have found a house to live in. Although we put the deposit down on it today, and we get the keys on Friday, we had initially looked at the locations last Thursday, October 30th, about 3 days after actually arriving in Oaxaca and selected it one week in, so all things considered (like nothing happens here work wise for the entire 4 days of festivals for the Day of the Dead) not bad overall.

I had been hesitating posting about our new house because I wanted to get a Day of the Dead/Tour Research post in here. Then I thought it had been WEEKS since we had posted and I realized in has only been about 5 days.


We selected charm and location over renovated. I am pretty sure the sight of the place as it is now would send many of our friends running to their budget spreadsheets and reworking their numbers to figure out how they could pay more rent or, heaven forbid, live out of town. Perhaps because we have owned homes before, and renovated 3 and built a 4 season bunk house from scratch, the roughness around the edges of this place does not have us that concerned. And there is a Home Depot in Oaxaca. Wait. That was worth saying twice. There is a Home Depot in Oaxaca. Can I get a whoo hoo, please?

If the condition were not enough to scare the pants of the well seasoned, the work to be done in the short timeframe might. We need to clean, clean, clean, paint almost the whole house, put in a new faucet and shower head in the bathroom as well as new light fixtures, decide what to do with and subsequently arrange to do that to two of the three bedroom floors, select and order furniture and appliance and have them delivered, talk each other out of the 70 inch television, arrange to have gas delivered and the stove hooked up, arrange internet service and possibly phone service... And a few other odds and ends... In 10 days.

Typical Tanya and Ralph, right friends?