I envy your daughter.
I only get to live there 2 weeks at a time every two years, or 1 week each year... we do the two.
I would be typing this from a warm beach, if it were not so insanely expensive to live there.
I do think that if one lives in NY, Upstate would be a good choice. ;>)
Yep. She's 16 and loving it, doing well in HS, active in Civil Air Patrol and a variety of other good upstanding activities. I'm very proud of her.
Happily for all, my ex- and I get along well (living separately, mind you), so I have a place to stay whenever I can accumulate the scratch to get to the island (every couple of years). Next one will probably be daughter's HS graduation. She was visiting with me over Christmas break, and flew back only hours before the snowstorms hit last weekend. Lord I miss her between visits!
> I do think that if one lives in NY, Upstate would be a good choice. ;>)
It's great. Occasionally challenging and stressful (I have a half-mile steep uphill driveway to plow every time it snows, and when it's icy I go nowhere that day). But overall a great place to live, and the summers are sublime. By contrast, while Kauai is lovely and no snowstorms, I overheat and am uncomfortable in high tropical humidity. Insanely expensive... yes indeed...
So it works out pretty well for all.