City or countryside?

City or countryside?

I will turn thirty-five in November and luckily met a man who's thinking in the same direction as me about life.

I have a small flat in the middle of the city. Perfect if you wanna have the complete city feeling. Cafés and restaurants are just around the corner as well as supermarkets and the green stripe of the river where you have the feeling to be in nature. That was exactly what I ever wanted when I moved to this place. My area has grown during the past years and is nowadays one of the hip places to live in Munich. But why am I not satisfied anymore? 

It's not that I don't like my flat, it's still my home, my place where I'm feeling so comfortable but I'm starting more and more to miss the silence.

Not silence like taking earplugs and shut down the world around you. No, silence like hearing no cars outside twenty-four hours, like not closing the window just to hear what they say on TV, like being outside and having only birds and bees and wind around you which makes sounds while hitting a tree. A place to step out of the door and being in peace. A place to slow down and also a place where you can imagine to raise up a child freely. 

Am I getting old or is it just the normal way to settle down at a certain age?

On the other hand I will not completely loose the comfort a city has. A wide spread variety of different restaurants, we have almost each country here and it's always exciting to try some unknown food. Shopping is also so easily done as you will find everything you can think of. Meeting friends in a café especially in summer is awesome. Sitting outside and just watching the busy people around you is something I like so much. But would I like it if I always see the same persons like in a small village? For sure not because this was one of million reasons why I moved. You have to decide what you want...

I want a quiet place with a small garden and nature around me but it should only take me no more than fifteen minutes to be in the middle of the city. Also important is that it's near to an airport as we will need in more often in future. I need it from time to time as I'm not traveling too much nowadays but my future husband will not move completely to Germany. He has his job which he likes so much and we may be able to start our life together in 4-5 week rhythms.

So what to look for? I'm a person who always wants to plan and organize and know where to be when. But that's not what life's about. 

Perfect would be a small house around Munich where we live and raise our children one day? 

No, because where is the father - just there every four weeks? 

Perfect would be a house in Libya? No, as I haven't been there up to now and I cannot imagine something I never saw. 

Perfect would be moving to a country we both can imagine like UK? 

No, as we don't know how it work out with our jobs. 

Too many No's at the moment but where we have a big YES is the question if we want to travel the path of our life together and wherever it will lead us, we will make it hopefully or how libyans say, inshallah.

Keep the faith!