The promise of working remotely from an exotic location, taking conference calls from the beach and trading in your cubical for artisanal coffee shops and co-working spaces seems almost too good to be true.
Copies now pop up on beaches, in trading rooms, on trains indeed everywhere but doctors' waiting rooms, from which, one can only assume, they disappear.Yet criticisms abound.
"I was so thoroughly amazed, I called the customer service number again and gave different answers to the same questions just to see what happened," said Mr. Beach, a trade magazine publisher who lives in Sherborne, Mass.
WHEN the Middle East is ablaze, oil prices near record highs, the American economy cooling and the climate warming, it is hard to get excited about the beaching of trade talks.
He is banking that Angelenos will trade beach, hills or suburban flatlands for a loft there.
The walks along the beach have been traded for snoring, drooling naps on the sofa that desperately needs swept, and the sweet kisses are fewer and farther between.
The former Cal State Long Beach star was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Blue Jays last summer and put the two-plus-acre estate on the market in December for $5.89 million.
She talks about trading a beach house in the Hamptons for an 1860s Victorian in a rural setting: "For years we'd had a place in the Hamptons, just two houses from the ocean, and it was great.
Would he trade his beach towel for a table cloth?
I was introduced to the Italian beach resort by the trade and tourism fair that visited Philadelphia when I was 9.
"You been down to Atlantic City?" he said recently, as he stood on the cooperative's half-mile-wide beach, with the World Trade Center just a speck in the distance.
