I'm a massive fan of the
Television Four show
Escape to the Chateau.
The series follows a British couple who purchased the dilapidated
Château de la Motte Husson in
Martigné-sur-Mayenne five years ago, and their adventures renovating it.
The chateau proper has 45 rooms and seven outhouses surrounded by a moat, over twelve acres populated with game and a walled orchard.
Their purchase price was a little over half the value of my apartment in central
Auckland. Okay they've expended a huge amount of time, money and labour renovating but still, it's hard to escape the conclusion I ought sell up and follow their example.
Long story short, I need more clients prepared to accept my preference to work remotely.