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  • August 30, 2009 at 11:00 AM #16270
    scaredyclassic
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    The fantasy of ones one home: a place you can always have, stability, all your stuff securing you to the earth–is nice. But lately, I’ve been recalling another fantasy. Utter mobility. Being able to move on short notice with a couple suitcases, maybe a folding table and chairs, twin-sized futons– fit everything in a small van. I had a friend in youth who when we changed apartments moved by taxi — a compact and flexible life indeed. There’s something pretty beautiful about that. Not even he does that anymore. It’s difficult to imagine — I’d need to have the mother of all garage sales. But it’s nice to meditate on being lightweight, nimble and utterly open, as opposed to being “landed”, mortgaged and fenced in, so to speak. Just throwing out another alternative fantasy for you to mull upon, just in case you, like me, have been waiting to have enough of a down payment and self-perceived sufficient stability to purchase a house since, oh, 1998 or so. Maybe by the time I and the market align in harmony, I’ll have lost the fantasy of the house and been consumed by the fantasy of freedom.

    August 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM #450699
    patientrenter
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    But at some point, you just want to come back to a place you call home to recover, recharge, and re-plan. And when you’re away, you want to know you have such a place.

    August 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM #451304
    patientrenter
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    But at some point, you just want to come back to a place you call home to recover, recharge, and re-plan. And when you’re away, you want to know you have such a place.

    August 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM #451231
    patientrenter
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    But at some point, you just want to come back to a place you call home to recover, recharge, and re-plan. And when you’re away, you want to know you have such a place.

    August 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM #450891
    patientrenter
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    But at some point, you just want to come back to a place you call home to recover, recharge, and re-plan. And when you’re away, you want to know you have such a place.

    August 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM #451495
    patientrenter
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    But at some point, you just want to come back to a place you call home to recover, recharge, and re-plan. And when you’re away, you want to know you have such a place.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM #450709
    bubble_contagion
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    Interesting topic. I find stability and safety in cash/stocks/bonds. Having a few hundred K in the bank makes me feel safer than owning things. Must be that I don’t have children or family in the region. Because I rent a small apartment I don’t have a lot of stuff. My only asset is a Prius. I also find conform that my employer has a great medical / dental / vision plan for my wife and I.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM #451314
    bubble_contagion
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    Interesting topic. I find stability and safety in cash/stocks/bonds. Having a few hundred K in the bank makes me feel safer than owning things. Must be that I don’t have children or family in the region. Because I rent a small apartment I don’t have a lot of stuff. My only asset is a Prius. I also find conform that my employer has a great medical / dental / vision plan for my wife and I.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM #451241
    bubble_contagion
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    Interesting topic. I find stability and safety in cash/stocks/bonds. Having a few hundred K in the bank makes me feel safer than owning things. Must be that I don’t have children or family in the region. Because I rent a small apartment I don’t have a lot of stuff. My only asset is a Prius. I also find conform that my employer has a great medical / dental / vision plan for my wife and I.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM #450901
    bubble_contagion
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    Interesting topic. I find stability and safety in cash/stocks/bonds. Having a few hundred K in the bank makes me feel safer than owning things. Must be that I don’t have children or family in the region. Because I rent a small apartment I don’t have a lot of stuff. My only asset is a Prius. I also find conform that my employer has a great medical / dental / vision plan for my wife and I.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM #451505
    bubble_contagion
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    Interesting topic. I find stability and safety in cash/stocks/bonds. Having a few hundred K in the bank makes me feel safer than owning things. Must be that I don’t have children or family in the region. Because I rent a small apartment I don’t have a lot of stuff. My only asset is a Prius. I also find conform that my employer has a great medical / dental / vision plan for my wife and I.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM #451510
    UCGal
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    I have a friend who did grad school at Columbia. She moved once by subway!

    Another friend has been semi-vagabond for much of his adult life. Every 4-5 years he relocates – selling all his possessions and only taking what he can take in his car. He is also great at living on the cheap. He claims it’s because he never upgraded his lifestyle with “stuff” after college – He can still live in a studio apartment – and tends to do just that… in great locations. San Diego, NYC, Cape Cod, Baja Mexico… Not needing a big place (to hold stuff) he can work for lower salaries and be more mobile.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM #451246
    UCGal
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    I have a friend who did grad school at Columbia. She moved once by subway!

    Another friend has been semi-vagabond for much of his adult life. Every 4-5 years he relocates – selling all his possessions and only taking what he can take in his car. He is also great at living on the cheap. He claims it’s because he never upgraded his lifestyle with “stuff” after college – He can still live in a studio apartment – and tends to do just that… in great locations. San Diego, NYC, Cape Cod, Baja Mexico… Not needing a big place (to hold stuff) he can work for lower salaries and be more mobile.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM #451320
    UCGal
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    I have a friend who did grad school at Columbia. She moved once by subway!

    Another friend has been semi-vagabond for much of his adult life. Every 4-5 years he relocates – selling all his possessions and only taking what he can take in his car. He is also great at living on the cheap. He claims it’s because he never upgraded his lifestyle with “stuff” after college – He can still live in a studio apartment – and tends to do just that… in great locations. San Diego, NYC, Cape Cod, Baja Mexico… Not needing a big place (to hold stuff) he can work for lower salaries and be more mobile.

    August 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM #450714
    UCGal
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    I have a friend who did grad school at Columbia. She moved once by subway!

    Another friend has been semi-vagabond for much of his adult life. Every 4-5 years he relocates – selling all his possessions and only taking what he can take in his car. He is also great at living on the cheap. He claims it’s because he never upgraded his lifestyle with “stuff” after college – He can still live in a studio apartment – and tends to do just that… in great locations. San Diego, NYC, Cape Cod, Baja Mexico… Not needing a big place (to hold stuff) he can work for lower salaries and be more mobile.

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