住めば都

It’s been almost a year and a half since I started this blog, and well, precious little has happened in most of that time, to be honest. But with the new year (2006) plans for the new house have started to slowly come into some semblance of a realistic shape.

The city has finally told us that our turn has come, and indeed it looks like our current house will be demolished sometime this Fall, which will necessitate us moving to temporary housing nearby. Unfortunately, for reasons I have yet to fully understand, the city wants to finish re-doing this street before we will be able to even start building the new place, even though are new house will be on land several hundred meters away.

But progress is being made, and I’m hoping I’ll be able to return back to this and keep it updated, and to utilize it as a sort of scrapbook of ideas more than anything else. In the meantime I’ve copied over the posts from the original blog just for continuity’s sake. Stay tuned….

Starting this new blog, about building a new house in Japan. 住めば都 (in roman letters, “sumeba miyako”) is a Japanese saying that would be the equivalent of “home is where the heart is” or “home is where you make it” in English.