[quote=CA renter]
Good to hear you are doing well and enjoying your new home. Now that you’ve been there a while, how do you like living back east vs. California?[/quote]
Well it was quite an adjustment, but we’re adapting just fine. My wife’s feelings about the place changed dramatically after we found a few nice international markets where we could find some of the ingredients she needs to make Thai food at home. This week we’re in San Diego again visiting my in-laws, headed back tomorrow. Just prior to coming here last weekend we got 24″ of snow (!). Dug out just in time to make our flight. Even though sometimes snow is a pain, I’m glad my wife and daughter are getting to experience it. The hospital at Bethesda is fantastic, and is being combined with Walter Reed.
Brian- Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading your posts and I must say your view of the world seems quite jaded, even pathologic.
You say you’d rather see the world rather than own a house? Why are those things mutually exclusive? I may be a bit older than you Brian, but I wonder which of us has seen more of the world. I’ve been to 40 of the US states, Japan, Korea, Thailand, England, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Some of those countries more than once. We’re heading to Thailand again this summer, and you know what? I get to come home to a nice home that I can’t be forced out of by a returning landlord or have foreclosed out from under me because a deadbeat landlord didn’t pay the mortgage.
I agree that happiness can be achieved while renting, but the title of this thread asks if it’s better in you home you own, and in my opinion it clearly is.
In addition, you comment on how sex with your spouse isn’t as good as with an extramarital lover. Well, I wouldn’t know because I’ve never cheated on my wife, and I’m not so fat, ugly or smelly that I couldn’t. I realize there are different strokes, but I wouldn’t want to be single again for anything. Could it be Brian that you MUST find contentment within yourself because you’re incapable of forming a relationship in which you could find happiness? If this is true I genuinely feel sorry for you.
