A perfect dream home would be a nice cottage, ambush amidst tress, far from the cacophony of the city... Add ons would probably be a glistening, clear brook or a farm land. I wouldn't say that it is impossible to find a home, ofcourse you can; provided you are ready to move out from the city, probably a hundred miles would do good. In a city, it is impossible. Forget a dream home, it would be a feat if you managed to find yourself a decent home especially in a place like Mumbai.
When you are old, retired and free from all burdens and duties of life your dream home would be:
An independent cottage, a few trees, a nice colony with old people like you and their grandchildren, a place where sparrows and crows would feed on your left-overs and close to the basic necessities of life.
When you are young or lets say in your middle age your home (Not Dream) would be:
A tiny flat with two windows to ocassionally peer out like a criminal, located close to your work place, child's school, hospital, supermarket, shopping arcade and preferably a closed parking space for your hard earned vehicle.
Like any other family, we too have been on house hunting. What I would like to bring into picture is the pains one has to take when he looks for a house. Yes, buying a house is a lot different from buying clothes or anything that petty, but it is a PAIN. Our idea of a dream house was : Like I stated before, close to all the public places - centrally located, affordable and above all up to the standards of vaastu.
I belong to a family of astrologers and vaastu experts. This post is not meant to declare any of their predictions or views as fake, it is just my view. I dont mean to be a hypocrite. But Sometimes I don't know whether I believe in the vaastu voodoo. Sometimes it seems like some lame myth but sometimes circumstances force me to believe that yes, it is true.
Every time my family and I step into a house, be it for renting or buying purposes the first thing we do is get the trusty compass out. Basic criteria for filtering our search: house entrance's direction, cooking slab's direction and door setup, the extension of the house in terms of direction and finally proportionality of walls. So basically, if you expect all these to be perfect it would be impossible to get a home of your choice.
My say on this topic that has always been in the hit-list for debates: I hate to admit it but I do believe in it, but forcefully. I don't want to... There aint any external compulsion either but I'm forced because of real experiences. I know that things go horribly wrong when Vastu, feng-shui... goes wrong. But when one thinks practically it sounds absurd. Take for instance a condominium, almost all the flats defy the laws of vaastu... But does that mean that every soul residing in those flats is suffering? Probably it is just in the mind. When one tells you that your house has a hint of bad omen; every bad incident becomes a result of that one statement.
Our hunt continues. Every time we get into the cement caked under-construction flats we come out, not with any fruitful decision but we come out with a riot of sneezes. So, "Feng Ah! Shui". Our 'dream' house awaits us.
When you are old, retired and free from all burdens and duties of life your dream home would be:
An independent cottage, a few trees, a nice colony with old people like you and their grandchildren, a place where sparrows and crows would feed on your left-overs and close to the basic necessities of life.
When you are young or lets say in your middle age your home (Not Dream) would be:
A tiny flat with two windows to ocassionally peer out like a criminal, located close to your work place, child's school, hospital, supermarket, shopping arcade and preferably a closed parking space for your hard earned vehicle.
Like any other family, we too have been on house hunting. What I would like to bring into picture is the pains one has to take when he looks for a house. Yes, buying a house is a lot different from buying clothes or anything that petty, but it is a PAIN. Our idea of a dream house was : Like I stated before, close to all the public places - centrally located, affordable and above all up to the standards of vaastu.
I belong to a family of astrologers and vaastu experts. This post is not meant to declare any of their predictions or views as fake, it is just my view. I dont mean to be a hypocrite. But Sometimes I don't know whether I believe in the vaastu voodoo. Sometimes it seems like some lame myth but sometimes circumstances force me to believe that yes, it is true.
Every time my family and I step into a house, be it for renting or buying purposes the first thing we do is get the trusty compass out. Basic criteria for filtering our search: house entrance's direction, cooking slab's direction and door setup, the extension of the house in terms of direction and finally proportionality of walls. So basically, if you expect all these to be perfect it would be impossible to get a home of your choice.
My say on this topic that has always been in the hit-list for debates: I hate to admit it but I do believe in it, but forcefully. I don't want to... There aint any external compulsion either but I'm forced because of real experiences. I know that things go horribly wrong when Vastu, feng-shui... goes wrong. But when one thinks practically it sounds absurd. Take for instance a condominium, almost all the flats defy the laws of vaastu... But does that mean that every soul residing in those flats is suffering? Probably it is just in the mind. When one tells you that your house has a hint of bad omen; every bad incident becomes a result of that one statement.
Our hunt continues. Every time we get into the cement caked under-construction flats we come out, not with any fruitful decision but we come out with a riot of sneezes. So, "Feng Ah! Shui". Our 'dream' house awaits us.
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