The idea here is to share my experiences and learn from the experiences of others about what is it like to live in a city intermittently! To live in a city which is not your own, but at the same time, not an unfamiliar one either. I have been visiting Goa and the city of Panaji (also spelled as Panjim - the spellings being a remnant of the more than 450 years of Portuguese rule in Goa) of and on, and again and again, for the last ten years. I have lived there many a times for short periods, as little as three days and had longer stays of months at a stretch during the last ten years. But I have always been a visitor there. This is about to change I plan to stay there on a more 'permanent' basis. The 'permanence' is going to be an intermittent one. What has changed is that I have been able to get myself a small apartment in Goa. It is situated in an area called Caranzalem which, at least for now, I would describe as a suburb of Panaji.
I am excited about the whole idea but am also quite nervous about it. What will it be like to live in a city like a visiting resident? No more booking hotels, no more hunting for lodges, no more shunting luggage from one place to another to save a few paisas but at the same time how does one set up a house and run it when one is still a visitor! In a series of posts that I hope to write on this issue and some others that I would explain soon. I wish to explore the joys and sorrows of this adventure of mine. I suppose it would be quite similar to what many others have experienced all over the globe but then each experience is bound to be unique, and that is where the fun lies. So let it begin!
