In recent weeks it has become suddenly quiet here on the blog. I was busy elsewhere, because I moved. No, not in another Airbnb apartment, not even in a new 1-bedroom apartment for sublease. Strictly speaking, I am not moved, but moved into my first apartment firm for three years.
Yes, I have made serious and tied me back locally. The lease expires at least 12 months and probably much longer. But not only the contract binds me, but also new furniture and a self-purchased kitchen, which is now firmly bolted and is no longer so easy to break down. Gone is the time when everything fit into a backpack. For the next move I need a small truck.
So surprising was not that. Already a year ago I made the decision to settle down again (it) to be. When I came from the first DNX home, grabbed me doubts about the homeless duration trips. And already a year ago, I called for that we should not lose sight of our homeland. So it is no wonder that a blogger colleague recently said: “. I have you always kept the most sedentary nomads, I know”
If I want to give a short answer, then it is this: I was in the last two years already coming back to home leave. Only for a few days, then weeks, then months. For that I have to look for a hotel for sublease me again and again. That’s in Leipzig is not difficult, but in the long run it is still annoying. My dates I had always plan to the infeed and outfeed dates around. After a collection it took me every time time to settle myself and pursue my healthy habits (z. B. cooking). Also, I had to crawl before and after each trip back to the attic of my parents, to share a bit of stuff. All this was doable, but uncomfortable.
Most people reaches this declaration. But today I’m in a good mood and let myself be carried away to the more honest answer: I want to build deeper relationships with loved ones.
When I was in Cape Town, I met (by my standards) many people with whom I share my lifestyle. We worked together, sat at night in bars, met for grilling or climbed Table Mountain. Mostly closed the spontaneous, because hardly anyone obligations as a permanent job or a family has. In Cape Town it was very good, but also in Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Phuket, Portland, San Francisco and Mexico City, I met already like-minded people with whom I would go anytime for a drink.
As nice as it is, the road to be able at any time Connection – depth does not arise here. The ground does not come on when one sees in twice for a few hours or days and no common ground has to be out of digital nomad. When not me anyway. Others may see it differently. One of flowers when he knows 500 people. I bloom when I know five people who know me well. I want to have people around me who do not just sign up, because we are both just happened to be in Cape Town.
Move disturbs not even me. Because I feel most comfortable and enjoy it to spend with known people away time. In the stranger join us the Nationality and lifestyle. Depth I need not necessarily at the moment. But when I’m back home, comes the emptiness. Shortly after South Africa, I had again a distinct tinge of loneliness. The simple answer would be to simply not to come home, but to be always on the move. But it can not be. I have even can get along well with me when I’m in my home.
To learn this, I need to be and I have to do it more here. I would like to take time for it, often to see friends so that we can advance to topics in conversations that I would not discuss with other nomads even after ten years. I want to have a home, where you can see me, rather than to meet us only in cafes. I want to share in the lives of other people, even if they are not jetting around the world.
After three years of traveling, I see a little alienation. The lives of the people here will continue. You get married, have children, buy houses or apartments. Not that I also just want to, but I sometimes have the feeling that they have missed the boat. However, this has to do not only with traveling. Before I had my business and this rated higher than my social life. The peregrinations replaced the company.
In a somber moment helped me Jasmin reinterpret the situation. Instead of torturing myself to have missed the boat, we go from here perhaps really begins. I had my business. Then I saw much of the world. Now it’s just time to take care of a stronger social environment and a partner. Reframing Perfect!
That’s my motivation again to have a home.
The apartment: inspired by travels
Search took awhile. At the Leipzig housing market new homes are still somewhat scarce, but in my district (Lindenau) will be redeveloped everywhere. I now live in a quiet side street within walking distance from Leipzig Plagwitz Hipsterviertel, had good sized 58 square meters with balcony and pay 550 euros hot – Brand new.
For the establishment I have researched for weeks and be influenced myself of my travels. The dining table I have seen something like that in a coffee shop in Chiang Mai. The kitchen was created under the influence of many Airbnb apartments in the US, Australia and South Africa. There are rare times a classic fitted kitchen, while it’s hard for us to get something else. Completely it did not succeed to get away from this, but by the international influences she has gained in character.
A cozy kitchen today is more important to me than three years ago. At that time she was just a room where the refrigerator is that cools the finished dishes that I just needed to warm up for me. Meanwhile, my attitude has changed for dinner. I want to take more time to prepare genuine food itself. That’s when traveling and in ever-new apartments are not easy. One more reason to have a home base.
The biggest inspiration of traveling, however, lies in the fact no longer indiscriminately shop and the apartment as quickly as possible to fill with stuff. Three years to live out of a backpack has shown me that I get along with little. Today I feel things as a burden because they take my room and make me less flexible.
When I took out the old packing cases from the attic of my parents and brought to Leipzig, I was surprised at how much stuff I still have, even though I had already got rid of half three years ago. When I realized that I no longer need from the remaining two-thirds more stuff, I was relieved. It will cost me a few weeks now to get rid of everything, but without all that stuff makes me feel better.
If I buy new things, I do it with sense and reason. I let a product rather a few days lying on the wish before I order it. Sometimes I realize that I will not need it. Also, the price should not be the decisive criterion. Timeless design and durability are more important to me.
What’s next?
That sounds like the end of my independent life. This should however not be there. I want to continue to lead a lean lifestyle Also about the apartment beyond. I will in the foreseeable future have no car, my fixed costs will not unnecessarily screws in the height and want to get as little post. I want to fall in just able to conclude and travel the door.