ENGLISH LISTENING PRACTICE 🎧 THE TIME WHEN WE NEARLY MOVED TO NEW YORK 🗽

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Hello this is Jack from tofluency.com.
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Welcome to this english lesson where I'm
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going to tell the story about the time
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we nearly moved to New York. And be sure
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to click the link in the description
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that will take you to the lesson notes
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there are going to be new words and
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phrases, grammar explanations, and a
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couple of extra bonuses too, so, the link
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to that is in the description. In
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September 2010, my wife and I moved in
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with my parents in France, so, we had just
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been in Spain; we just spent a couple of
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years teaching and living in Spain - I had
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just got my visa for America and we had
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about two or three months before our
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flight to the US, so, we decided to move
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in with my parents and just to take it easy
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for a while. Our plan was to move to New
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York City early in the new year so I was
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going to get a job in a language school
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or try to find a job in a language
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school my wife was going to go back to
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school and to get her teaching
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certificate. We started researching the
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different areas of New York and thinking
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about where we were going to live and we
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decided that Brooklyn was going to be
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the place for us. But before that we had
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two or three months in France and my
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parents live in this really quiet
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village and there's hardly anything
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going on. I think there's one bar in the
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village which isn't there anymore and it
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didn't ever seem to be open when we were
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there. So, in terms of excitement it
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wasn't that great but it was beautiful
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and we actually enjoyed how quiet it was;
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we enjoyed the peace and quiet
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especially after living in Spain for two
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years where everything seemed to be
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really noisy. And one of our favorite
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things to do during those two months was
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to walk through this farm to a local
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bakery - or in French the petisserie - and it was
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on one of these walks when we started
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doubt moving to New York; we started to
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think that maybe this wasn't going to be
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the best thing for us and before we had
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made that decision; before we were set on
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New York. we actually had a short list of
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different places including
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Portland in Oregon. Austin, Texas. And
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Asheville, North Carolina. In fact.
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Asheville was our number one choice for
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a couple of years before we made the
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change to New York. And we started to
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weigh up our options again - we started to
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think about whether New York or
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Asheville would be the place for us. On
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one hand, we had New York - the big city - it
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was exciting, it was full of people, there
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was so much to do there and for me, it's
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probably one of the best cities in the
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world. On the other hand, we had Asheville
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which is a small town but based around
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outdoor adventures and community. And a
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couple of weeks before we were about to
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move to New York we went on another one
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of these walks and I remember when we
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decided that Asheville was going to be
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the place for us - we just felt like we
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wanted to move to a smaller city - a place
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where we could put down roots - a place
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where we could afford housing; a place
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where we wanted to start a family. So, we
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took the flight to America, spent a few
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days with my wife's family, packed the
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car full of everything we had, including
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our dog, and we drove down to Asheville.
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And that was over six years ago now and
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we just feel like we made the best
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decision - we love it here. We love
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everything about Asheville and we've
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really created a good community - we've
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really made some great friends. But
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from time to time, I think about how
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life would be different if we had moved
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to New York and it's just funny to think
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about this; about how you make a decision
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and how your life changes because of
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that decision and to think about what
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would be different if you had made a
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different decision instead. And it made
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me realize that there's no perfect place,
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you know, if you move to the country it's
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peaceful; it's quiet but you don't have
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that excitement of a city, whereas, if you
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move to a big city you have that
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excitement but it's really noisy. And
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with all this in mind, I've got a
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question for you: if you could move
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anywhere in the world, where would you
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move to and why? Which city or which town
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which area would you choose
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and why? I'm really looking forward to
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reading your comments so please leave
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one below and then once you leave a
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comment, click over here. That will give
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you access to the lesson notes - the
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grammar and the vocabulary that I used
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in this lesson and you can also get my
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book for free too. So, thank you for
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watching this lesson, I hope it has given
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you some good listening practice and if
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it has, then please like and share this
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video. Thanks for watching - see you in the
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next lesson
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