Because I have family here whom I love. No wife or kids, but still have a family.
And because there are still a lot of houses under foreclosure on the East Coast. Buy a few more, clean any skels living there out, rent them to humans, and be set with an income for life, able to live anywhere in the world.
That’s what I value above all else. Independence from anyone telling me what to do, except those people whom I might CHOOSE to give a flying rip about.