We are a married couple, homeowners in the US, taking a couple of years to explore Europe and the Mediterranean with the goal of finding a country we'd like to live long-term. We have pets at home and a housesitter caring for them, and we miss them every day. We love that housesitting gives us the opportunity to care for others' pets as if they were our own. We also prefer to stay longer than a few days in a location so that we can really feel what it would be like to live there longer-term.