equalizer, thank you. Curiously, I don’t miss the house at all. I am so happy with being debt free and having money in the bank, living in town, close to neighbors. Regarding the house, I am proud of my design choices, and how it turned out, but I lived too far out of town on a crappy road, bumpy, steep, desolate. My life is enriched with the choice that I made. But I wanted to point out that without the housing bubble, we would have stayed. It was the housing bubble and the prospect of losing 50% of the home’s value, that made us sell. That was a financial loss we could not afford.

On the other hand, my husband does miss the house, and the views.