We are once again in the process of looking for a house to buy. This time, however, the house is for our son and daughter-in-law and grandson to live in. We’ve already gone through the tedious process of applying for a mortgage with a local bank. In prior years all they wanted to know was your heart rate and body temperature, but now they want to know every detail about your financial life.
Houses in Seattle are very expensive. A relatively nice house costs half a million. The closer you get to downtown the higher the cost goes. So we are looking further and further to the north of Seattle. Many buyers here are offering all-cash - they don't even need a mortgage. That's hard to to compete against. The average house seems to sell in a few days. All in all it's a rather unpleasant experience, at least for me, and Nonna is doing all the work.
Some old friends are coming to visit. Next week our friends from Kazakhstan are coming to help their son move to Seattle. I remember him as a little boy in Almaty. Now he is grown up and is starting a job at Amazon. It will be great to see them again. It's been twenty years since we lived in Almaty, twenty years since all those wonderful dinners at their house.
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