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Destinations

Apr 11, 2018benm1 CommentTravel Blogreference

Below are the cities on my itinerary. I began my trip by visiting my sister Meghan, my brother-in-law Aaron, and my train-obsessed two-year-old nephew Eli in Eugene, OR, USA from 28 March to 3 April 2018. No city in North America makes the cut in terms of low cost of living, so the rest of

City Ranking Criteria

Apr 9, 2018benmTravel Blog, Washington_DCratings, reference, USA, Washington

These are the standards I’m using to rate the cost of living and quality of life in each city that I visit, listed in order of importance. A handful (rent, health care, crime, pollution) are derived from online data compiled by Numbeo; I will assign the other rankings based on my personal observations. I use

The Plan

Apr 6, 2018benm1 CommentTravel Blog, Washington_DCUSA, Washington

17 March 2018: If I do this right, I can travel overseas and spend less on a day-to-day basis than I would by staying put in Washington, D.C. Pretty cool! So why not just move overseas? Every three or four years I get the urge to pull up stakes and move somewhere new anyway. I’ll