Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boats that competed at the MIT regatta also enjoyed a relaxing weekend close to home. They had to deal with the rough winds that regularly plague the Charles River, however...
What a deal! No wonder more and more folks--by some estimates 15% to 20% more each year--are getting into house trading as a vacation alternative. With a home swap, not only can you save about $1,500 a week, typically, on a holiday in Europe, without the cost of hotel, car and some restaurant meals, but with the swap, you also get the kind of intimate look at another culture that not even the swankiest hotel in town provides. Live the way the locals live, meet their friends, buy bread at their favorite bakery and dine...
...visits to each other and at least seven stays at Rene's, including three quid pro quo exchanges. Sometimes Jerry and Mary have used Rene's condo in the French Alps, or one--or both of them--has stayed at Rene's Paris apartment when he was away from home. This March, nearly 20 years after their first swap, the couple plans to spend an entire month in Rene's Paris flat...
After exchanges from Hawaii to England, Tom and Pat Hogan of Carrollton, Texas, are so enamored of the house-swap life that they're shopping for a retirement home in Florida, partly because it is a much sought destination for vacationing Europeans. "That way, we could string together four or five exchanges," Pat says, "and spend time in Europe in the summer...
...might ask, does one get deals like these? And how, you might also ask, does one make sure you're not getting a shack instead of a chateau on one end or a reprobate instead of a Rene in your home on the other...