This week I have had a flood of requests from home exchangers who want to spend New Year's Eve in New York City. NYC bills itself as the Near Year's Eve capital of the world. Many people include watching the New Year's Eve countdown ball drop in Time's Square to be a lifetime "must do".
Like me, a lot of New Yorkers are eager to get out of town in late December and escape the holiday crowds. Just in the past week I have had New Year's Eve swap offers from France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Canada, and Australia, among other places.
If you have your heart set on a swap for a one-day event in a specific city at a peak time of year, waiting until just three months before that date to propose an international exchange is risky. I sometimes get offers a year or more in advance, and I am simply not able to plan that far ahead. But I would need a lot more than twelve weeks' notice to arrange travel to Europe.
It isn't too late to land a New Year's Eve home exchange in Manhattan, but it isn't terribly early, either.
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