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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

Mid-Life Crisis, Here I Come!

Apr 6, 2018benmTravel Blog, Washington_DCUSA, Washington

16 March 2018: A first career should be followed by a first retirement. In Fall 2017, after 13 years in a Federal Government job in Washington, D.C., I had reached the end of my tether. I still basically liked my job, but the rat race was killing me. Getting up early, spending an hour and