Got a late start and a bunch of things are closed on Sunday, so we took it easy this morning.
The big talking point of today was thanks to a video we saw on Youtube where a guy bought a house here in Albania for 60k cash money. A condo, I guess it was, but still. I mean, I understand that rent here is cheap cheap, and that I’m probably paying twice what an actual rent would be because I’m paying my Airbnb host some profit, but I don’t think I considered how that would translate to actual real estate.
(Which is funny, because I definitely do check out realtor window listings in Paris when we walk by them.)
(Those are decidedly not 60k.)
We walked up to Mulliri in the afternoon since it was cool and overcast, and we wanted coffee. Pretty much the entire conversation today was: Could we buy a house in Albania? How long would it be before we realistically could pay cash money for a house in Albania? Does it make sense to rent something long term since it seems like we’re coming back here a lot? What does it look like ten years from now? What does it look like after we retire?
A lot of interesting thinking to do.
We coffeed a bunch, tried out some savory snacks, then ultimately made our way over to the Chicken Guy for dinner. I should probably figure out what the Chicken Guy is actually called but basically — there’s a corner gyro shop on Zogu that has excellent sufflaqi and H and I can get lunch for like eight bucks total. H’s checkin is at a place called “Fast Food Merakliu” so I guess that’s what we’re going with. Then we called it an early night with the hopes of getting a good start tomorrow, since it’s a work holiday and we get an extra weekend day.
(When things will actually be open.)