Love is in the Air

The ever-increasing size of the home exchange community provides evidence of the fact that there are many reasons why people decide to explore the possibility of finding a 'home-from-home' with home exchange. Many people wish to trace back their family tree and explore their roots, others to visit family or friends without imposing on them (especially if their trip involves long-haul travel, and they wish to stay a little longer to make their journey worthwhile). However, with spring just around the corner, we have noticed that there is more of a romantic angle to some of the exchange requests. Two of GTI's recent members (HE16500) and HE16433 are seeking exchange offers in specific locations to attend weddings.

In the past we were even inadvertently party to some match-making - though we had no intention of being a dating agency - an American lady member met up with an old flame from the past purely by chance when on an exchange to the UK, and with both their circumstances having changed, the flame was rekindled and they married. As far as we know, their only problem was in deciding in which country to live permanently, but as far as I know they sorted the problem out by testing out locations with further home exchanges!!