yeah, that’s me. City girl, born and bred.
If you don’t know, I was born and spent all my childhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil– “the most populous in Brazil, in South America and in the southern hemisphere.”
Then my family immigrated to the U.S. and I’ve lived in NYC for most of the rest of my life. So, I am a city girl.
What [...]
New York City population: 8.2 million – “the most densely populated major city in the United States”
Dublin Borough: 2,083
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NYC land mass: 304.8 square miles
Dublin:3/4 mile square
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NYC landscape: islands and skyscrapers and government housing
Dublin: farms (dairy, veggie and beef)
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Our previous apartment: 2nd floor of a 3 family home
Now: 2-story house
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before: no yard
now: 1/2 acre
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before: not enough [...]
yes, one of the best things so far, about our neighborhood…
I can get milk from a farm that is about 2 miles away. Yeah, in the glass bottles and everything!
I paid the deposit and the price of the milk today, but after today, I will just be bringing back the bottles, and getting fresh [...]
I have so much to write about, but I’m too busy to write.
We’ve moved in and the kitchen is almost all unpacked. Only spices and cookbooks to unpack. I forgot a bunch of pots inside my cabinet in New York, so I have to get some new ones, and cooking has been a bit challenging. [...]
Yesterday was the big day. we had asked everyone to be here at 9am to help us move.
The day before we’d gone to get the U-Haul truck– a 24-footer, which Fabio had to drive around in Queens.
We stayed up til 2am packing, and we got up at 6am and continued packing, in order to be [...]