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Moving every 2-5 years sounds like one of the rings of Hell from Dante.
Staying in the same place for decades seems like hell to me too.
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>But the biggest thing is that I'm the only one in charge of maintenance. There's no one person I can call for every single problem. Keeping track of regular maintenance, performing that maintenance, and learning how to DIY things takes a lot of time. And even if I want to pay someone to do it for me, I still have to research contractors, coordinate estimates, and schedule the project. And I still need to learn enoug…
My landlord has one. That is a B2B relationship, not a B2C one. The old handyman probably might not need new customers and even if they do, they probably don’t want random homeowners because the inexperienced tend to have unrealistic expectations and only own one property,
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Why is that good? That is horrible for economic development and employment. It is worse for a country than being nuked.
Contrary to popular belief, people spending all their money buying pointless shit is not good for the economy.
But it seems that the entire world has decided that everything except real estate - even the continuation of the species through children - is just "pointless shit". Better to have a very expensive tomb to haunt.
It seems like we're just a few years away from when the elderly start demanding to be buried in their houses and have them sealed off for all future.
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Maybe 1% of renters do that. The rest can't afford a house. Changing cities? Sell or rent out your house. Not harder than moving apartments.
Not harder than moving apartments?!?!
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Why is that good? That is horrible for economic development and employment. It is worse for a country than being nuked.
But it is good for the individual. You do have a point that in the long run, the health and growth of the overall economy impacts the quality of life of individuals, but the interests of individuals must be balanced against the interests of a country as as a whole. Consider that people immediately spending all their salary at the beginning of every month and being broke and hungry for the rest of the month is good fo…
And if you're talking about people who go broke and hungry waiting for the next pay check, in most cases it is because they have to spend so much on their rent or mortgage. Being "house-poor", as they call it.
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Why not get rid of most of the grass (especially on the hill) and put in a perennial garden of hardy (for your zone) shrubs and trees?
> Why not get rid of... Soil erosion.
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Do you want to buy a house? Do you need to buy a house? If the answer is no to both, then don't buy a house.
I want to buy a house, but I do not want to end up crazy underwater on a house. If I thought values would be at-least-stable I probably would buy. Everything just seems so bubbly that it feels like a trap.