{"id":901,"date":"2014-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brokernadir.com\/called-it-home\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T00:00:00","slug":"called-it-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/29\/called-it-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Called it home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nadir&Khan'sofSquash\"We have had several gorgeous, sizzling hot days recently, here in Seattle.\u00a0 It reminded me of the summer of 1995 when I moved here from Denver, Colorado. \u00a0I have lived in Denver for a couple of years. I loved three things about my time there. I got remarried there, I skied almost every day and I played Squash with the legendary Hashim Khan<\/a>, seen here with his son and nephew, and yours truly, three to four times each week.<\/p>\n

In late 1994 I started to consider moving from Denver. I have been fortunate enough to travel extensively and am very familiar with several beautiful cities in the world.\u00a0 I narrowed down the list to Kuala Lumpur, San Francisco, and Seattle. In December 1994 I visited Seattle, intending to find a place to live and then move from Denver.<\/p>\n

We arrived here in the midst of a nasty rainstorm. I remember being thrashed around by the high winds while on the 520 Bridge, heading to Kirkland for dinner at a friend\u2019s home. We stayed here for a few days and left very disheartened having decided against moving to a place that had such foul weather.<\/p>\n

The following spring, I started my search again. I went to San Francisco and Boston amongst other cities. \u00a0I liked those wonderful cities, however, none of them \u2018called to me\u2019. Then in July, I stopped here for a few days while on my way to Vancouver, BC to attend a business meeting. We hit a July heatwave<\/em> that was almost exactly like the one we have just had. I got a taste of how amazingly beautiful the Greater Seattle Area can be on a nice, hot summer day. \u00a0The lake, the Eastside, the Sound, various beaches, Pike Market \u2013 there are so many amazing aspects to the gorgeous Pacific North West.<\/p>\n

Instead of staying for three days in Vancouver, BC I turned it into a day trip and returned to Seattle the same day. For those who might be saying, Vancouver is a beautiful city as well, yes, of course, it is. You see, I lived there before moving to Denver. \u00a0I wanted to be as close to it as possible while still living in the US.<\/p>\n

We stayed in Seattle for several days after that. We drove around all over Puget Sound. We looked at homes in Seattle, Kirkland<\/a>, Bothell, Redmond, Sammamish<\/a>, and Bellevue. Each day was more beautiful than the previous one.\u00a0 I finally understood the diversity in the beauty of this place. I bought a house in Bellevue before returning to Denver. I arrived back here with all my belongings on a truck in September of 1995 and have called it \u2018home\u2019 ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have had several gorgeous, sizzling hot days recently, here in Seattle.\u00a0 It reminded me of the summer of 1995 when I moved here from Denver, Colorado. \u00a0I have lived in Denver for a couple of years. I loved three things about my time there. I got remarried there, I skied almost every day and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentricstudio.smtgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}