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Featured StoryReal Homes, Real Neighbourhoods: How Home Exchange Reshaped the Way We Travel
From quick trips to see the kids to a month in Costa Rica, one PLU member on why home exchange has become her family's way of seeing the world.
One PLU member joined looking for a fun new way to travel and ended up finding something bigger: a whole different rhythm to how her family sees the world. Over the past few years, exchanges have taken them from quick visits to Seattle and Boston to see their kids, to a full month settled into Costa Rica, three weeks in France, and a recent stretch through Scotland and Liverpool. Along the way, they've swapped hotel rooms for real neighbourhoods and traded restaurant menus for the local grocer, all while building genuine friendships with the people who trusted them with their homes. Have a read, we think you'll recognise a bit of yourselves in it.
Jennifer
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
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