Friday Five: Five Reasons I Love Living in Lavapies

Do you remember last year, when I wrote that post about the various neighborhoods I might live in?  I took my 10-pass ticket and went from neighborhood to neighborhood, checking it out before searching for flat at random.  I didn’t want to waste my time seeing a flat when I didn’t even like the neighborhood […]

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How to Solicit a Social Security Number in Madrid

Before I moved to Spain, I planned on writing all of these “how to” posts for getting your life together here.  Guess what?!  I don’t have my life together and those posts haven’t really happened, but today, TODAY! I do have a “how to” post for you.  For whatever random reason, you might need to get […]

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The Budget: Feeling Less Poor.

Well, I have officially been here two months and it has taken just as long to feel like I have found “my groove” not only in my day-to-day life, but in my spending, as well.  I still feel #poor, but not nearly as much as before.  And I have since remedied that #homeless situation.  Life, […]

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