Category Archives: Travel & Mobility

For All Practical Purposes: Premier Banking Accounts

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Ok, following two weeks of meandering, I think it’s high time I posted some practical information on this blog. So I’m starting a regular column called “For All Practical Purposes,” which will focus on practical issues related to relocation and … Continue reading

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Home is a State of Mind

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“There’s no place like home” because home is a state of mind.  More specifically, home is Jay-Zee’s multi-platinum, Grammy-award winning track, Empire State of Mind. While I was interviewing another friend of mine on what his experience was like relocating … Continue reading

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Journeyings and Visitations

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Dreaming is a kind of spectral journeying.  In the past year, I have dreamed of more than a dozen cities, strange and familiar. These dreams were (ghostly) re-visitations. Like a phantom presence, I re-meandered unnoticed along familiar pathways, water bodies … Continue reading

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Home is Elsewhere

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A friend of mine, speaking on the subject of Home, said that what’s most important to him was flexibility – the ability to just pick up and go anywhere in the world; to be elsewhere easily. As long as he … Continue reading

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A Glimpse of the Divine

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I’m not religious. Not in the least. However, there are some places that spur one into belief; that provide a glimpse of the divine. The ancient Balinese weren’t that far off the mark when they decided to worship their mountain, … Continue reading

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“There’s no place like home” because home is not a place

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One of the earliest conclusions I made about Home this past year was while re-watching the classic motion picture, The Wizard of Oz. In the final scenes of the motion picture, Dorothy Gale of Kansas is told to close her … Continue reading

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“Victims of Globalisation”

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“Victims of globalization” was what a friend / interviewee of mine in Dubai joking-seriously called himself and other latter-day nomads when I interviewed him for a recent research project.  I told him I’m not so sure I agreed completely. I … Continue reading

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A Statement of Purpose

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In the past year and a half I have journeyed extensively and restlessly through a dozen cities to catch up with and interview old friends and their friends, to find out what home meant for them, in the context of … Continue reading

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The Question of Home

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This is a blog about cities, about geographical mobility and about home. It is addressed to friends and strangers alike who wander the cities of the world, and who, in their sleep, dream of a city that they once did … Continue reading

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