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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is that if a vacation isn't in the

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Speaker 1: cards right now, try a relocation. Sometimes just changing your

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Speaker 1: scenery for a while can be enough to give you

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Speaker 1: a lift. Many a parent has noted that when you

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Speaker 1: have kids, going on a vacation isn't really a vacation

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Speaker 1: in the sense of being relaxing. Going to the beach

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Speaker 1: or Disney World or a relative's house is mostly just

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Speaker 1: a relocation. You are still responsible for getting everybody fed

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Speaker 1: and dressed and in bed at the right times, and

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Speaker 1: keeping everybody safe and happy. Even when you're away from home.

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Speaker 1: It is not exactly my ties on the sand and

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Speaker 1: sleeping until noon. But you know what, as long as

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Speaker 1: you realize that, then your relocations can still be enjoyable.

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Speaker 1: You can have fun and create memories through the sheer

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Speaker 1: novelty of the experience. A similar logic holds even if

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Speaker 1: you don't have toddlers. There may be responsibilities that you

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Speaker 1: can't take a vacation from right now, whether that's your

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Speaker 1: own work or supervising your older kids remote learning. But

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Speaker 1: Even if you can't take a full vacation, consider a relocation.

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Speaker 1: You can take your responsibilities with you while you enjoy

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Speaker 1: being in a new place. I hear from a lot

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Speaker 1: of people that they are tired of staring at the

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Speaker 1: same four walls all day. Well, you know what, maybe

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Speaker 1: you don't have to. This past summer, my family spent

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Speaker 1: three weeks at the beach. The kids camps had all

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Speaker 1: been canceled, and my husband and I were figuring out

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Speaker 1: that we'd both be working from home for the foreseeable future,

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Speaker 1: so we relocated to the Jersey Shore for a while.

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Speaker 1: Both of us did several hours of work per day. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many people we work with even

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Speaker 1: knew that we were somewhere else. But the kids got

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Speaker 1: a new place to play and could walk to a

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Speaker 1: nearby ice cream parlor every night. I could see the

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Speaker 1: ocean from the desk where I put my laptop. It

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Speaker 1: felt enough different after several months of not leaving the

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Speaker 1: house to be rejuvenating, even if there were still five

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Speaker 1: kids to deal with. So if I have piqued your

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Speaker 1: interest in a relocation, here are some possibilities to consider.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps you could go to the mountains or the beach

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Speaker 1: or a lake. Soaking in natural beauty is uplifting and relaxing,

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Speaker 1: and you're not at much more risk of catching or

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Speaker 1: spreading COVID than you would be at home. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: could move in with close family or friends for a while,

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Speaker 1: or rent an arabianb near loved ones. You could use

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Speaker 1: your time near them as a chance to reconnect. You

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Speaker 1: might find yourself getting help with child care too, especially

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Speaker 1: as people are getting vaccinated these days, and as rapid

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Speaker 1: testing is becoming more available. You might be able to

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Speaker 1: do this more comfortably than at any other point. In

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Speaker 1: the last year, lots of people who are working from

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Speaker 1: home are realizing that they could move somewhere else if

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Speaker 1: they wanted to. If you are considering moving to a

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Speaker 1: new city or town, or if you've always wondered what

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Speaker 1: it would be like to live someplace else, well try

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Speaker 1: it out for a month or so. You could rent

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Speaker 1: a house or apartment in a place you're interested in,

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Speaker 1: or to a house swap with people with a similar

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Speaker 1: family configuration in a different city. You live in their

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Speaker 1: house and they live in your house for a while.

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Speaker 1: When work in school are remote, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: be as tied to home as usual, So consider whether

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Speaker 1: you might be able to get a change of scenery

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Speaker 1: even if you can't let go of your ongoing responsibilities.

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Speaker 1: When you're already working remotely, there is no reason to

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Speaker 1: feel that you are stuck at home until the next

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Speaker 1: time you take vacation days or your kids have a

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Speaker 1: school break. Consider whether you might be able to work

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Speaker 1: in a slightly more remote location for a little while.

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Speaker 1: I know we already have sometime booked at the beach

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Speaker 1: for next summer, even if I do hope that more

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Speaker 1: travel will be available to in the meantime. This is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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