So I’ve been house hunting in the Saratoga Springs region of upstate NY. I made contact with a retiree couple who built their dream house on a mountain lake 20 minutes outside of Saratoga Springs. 4 bedrooms, 2 story cathedral cielings, full glass southern facing, passive solar heat, a hot tub, oil heat to supplement the solar, a giant fireplace, it abuts undeveloped state land with thousands of acres of trails….it sounds like absolute heaven. $800 a month. I should jump on it right? Except there is no high speed internet access – no cable, no dsl, no nothing. I’m so completely conflicted by this. Basically my entire personal and professional life revolves around the internet. This would be a radical life change for me. Mostly the prospect of trying this is freaking me out, but there’s a small part of me that thinks it would be interesting to try out a different lifestyle. This would force me to do it. I have to decide by the end of next week – partly I’m going to base the decision on my visit to the house, I’ll meet up with the couple in Saratoga the week July 5th. If it’s half as nice as it sounds I bet I will be convinced to go for it. Then I’ll need to figure out how to handle a bunch of stuff, including this website.

Anyway, what would you do? Glorious house on the lake but in digital isolation? Or something else not nearly as nice, but with cable and internet and more convenient to town, the store, and so on.