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Participant[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.
Participant[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.
Participant[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.
ParticipantThis is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.
ParticipantThis is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.
ParticipantThis is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.
ParticipantThis is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.
ParticipantThis is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.
Participant[quote=8bitnintendo
Really? What state was this? That’s definitely not legal in California.[/quote]What do you mean it’s not legal in California? Are you saying he can force the Urologist to perform a surgical procedure, however minor, against the surgeons wishes? I assure you that he cannot. I had a similar case when I had a 17yo asking me to tie her tubes. She had no kids either, and I refused to do it. My 3 other colleagues at the time refused to do it as well.
You have to be extremely careful when performing technically permanant (although most CAN be reversed, it’s just an expensive and difficult procedure to do so) sterilization procedures. It’s not impossible for the patient to claim they were inadequately counseled prior to the procedure and get the surgeon to pay for future IVF costs.
Participant[quote=8bitnintendo
Really? What state was this? That’s definitely not legal in California.[/quote]What do you mean it’s not legal in California? Are you saying he can force the Urologist to perform a surgical procedure, however minor, against the surgeons wishes? I assure you that he cannot. I had a similar case when I had a 17yo asking me to tie her tubes. She had no kids either, and I refused to do it. My 3 other colleagues at the time refused to do it as well.
You have to be extremely careful when performing technically permanant (although most CAN be reversed, it’s just an expensive and difficult procedure to do so) sterilization procedures. It’s not impossible for the patient to claim they were inadequately counseled prior to the procedure and get the surgeon to pay for future IVF costs.
Participant[quote=8bitnintendo
Really? What state was this? That’s definitely not legal in California.[/quote]What do you mean it’s not legal in California? Are you saying he can force the Urologist to perform a surgical procedure, however minor, against the surgeons wishes? I assure you that he cannot. I had a similar case when I had a 17yo asking me to tie her tubes. She had no kids either, and I refused to do it. My 3 other colleagues at the time refused to do it as well.
You have to be extremely careful when performing technically permanant (although most CAN be reversed, it’s just an expensive and difficult procedure to do so) sterilization procedures. It’s not impossible for the patient to claim they were inadequately counseled prior to the procedure and get the surgeon to pay for future IVF costs.
Participant[quote=8bitnintendo
Really? What state was this? That’s definitely not legal in California.[/quote]What do you mean it’s not legal in California? Are you saying he can force the Urologist to perform a surgical procedure, however minor, against the surgeons wishes? I assure you that he cannot. I had a similar case when I had a 17yo asking me to tie her tubes. She had no kids either, and I refused to do it. My 3 other colleagues at the time refused to do it as well.
You have to be extremely careful when performing technically permanant (although most CAN be reversed, it’s just an expensive and difficult procedure to do so) sterilization procedures. It’s not impossible for the patient to claim they were inadequately counseled prior to the procedure and get the surgeon to pay for future IVF costs.
Participant[quote=8bitnintendo
Really? What state was this? That’s definitely not legal in California.[/quote]What do you mean it’s not legal in California? Are you saying he can force the Urologist to perform a surgical procedure, however minor, against the surgeons wishes? I assure you that he cannot. I had a similar case when I had a 17yo asking me to tie her tubes. She had no kids either, and I refused to do it. My 3 other colleagues at the time refused to do it as well.
You have to be extremely careful when performing technically permanant (although most CAN be reversed, it’s just an expensive and difficult procedure to do so) sterilization procedures. It’s not impossible for the patient to claim they were inadequately counseled prior to the procedure and get the surgeon to pay for future IVF costs.
ParticipantWell, we closed on 6/30, and now all my crap is on a truck on its way to Gaithersburg MD. Did I rationalize? I don’t think so. I can’t even find a rental close to my new house for anything near to what my mortgage payment is. I also won’t have a guy in a little beat-up yellow pickup with a clipboard in front of my house scheduling the trustee sale (this happened 10 days prior to our move, I asked the guy how much time we had and he couldn’t tell me, but he said we still had some time).
Renting was very good to me, and it allowed me to save the nice chunk of change that I could use as a down payment. But renting is not without its problems. While living in LA we had to move twice, once after my first year, and I had to do that one myself. I cannot tell you how stressful that was for my family. I also feel a little better about this money when the inevitable inflation finally hits. What’s the difference if the money is lost due to depreciation of the house, or if its spending power is decreased through inflation? At least now my housing costs are fixed at a price I can very comfortably afford. When inflation comes I’ll be smelling like a rose. If the money was in a CD or other safe investment I would lose by both lost spending power, and having to pay increasing housing costs.
I am now very well situated to ride out anything that comes economically. My job is completely safe. Even if the Navy dumps me, I could find a new job in about 5 minutes. I don’t see procreation dropping off any time soon, and women keep having babies later and later in life, which keeps the high-risk OBs quite busy.
I hope I can keep my PIGG status on the East coast.
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