My search in Bali changed shape the day my mother said she would like to come for a longer stay each year.

That added things to the list I had not considered: a bedroom and a bathroom on the ground floor, a doorway wide enough, no steep step at the entrance, and a clinic within a reasonable drive rather than an hour of traffic.

Two of the houses I liked most failed on the stairs alone. The listings come from https://global-property.investments/ and I now open each one looking at the floor plan before the photographs.

She is 76 and travels well, and the plan is three months a year starting next spring.