Sold!

Well, that was fast.

Our house sold in just 7 days. In this market? Well, we must've been under-priced. By a LOT. Still, it meets our financial goals so everything works out.

All that's left to do now is...

• Fill out our applications for long stay visas
• Confirm our apartment in Paris (which is looking quite nice, actually)
• Buy health insurance
• Buy one-way airline tickets
• Collect our financial information
• Sign letters saying we will not work while living in France
• Fly to San Francisco to submit our applications in person
• Say goodbye to my wife's daughter and my brother and sister in law
• Buy a long term storage location
• Close on the house
• Manage the money so we can live overseas
  
• Drive to the south coast to say goodbye to my father and younger brother
  
• Move the few things we'll keep into aforementioned storage location
• Sell or give away everything else that needs to find a new home
• Pack and ship the few pieces of art and tools we like and need
  
• Land in Paris
• Perform a walk-through of the apartment with the owners so we can all confirm it's current condition
• Submit our request to be seen by the immigration doctors
• Wait for our long stay visa sticker
• Start the search for a long term apartment (something closer to what we can afford forever)
• Receive our long stay visa sticker for our passports
  
• Move to the new apartment before Bastille Day
• Unpack (again) and settle in
  
• Integrate into French culture and society
• Live like we're actually fully retired. Finally. After 30 years of work.

That's all that's left to be done. Really not much, eh?

Have I mentioned how tired I am just thinking about it? Have I also mentioned just how exciting it is to actually begin a new life in such an amazing city?