The common-core crap assumes that each step would take equal amounts of time. As long as there’s one approach that they’re comfortable doing and that WORKS, who gives a fuck what approach they use?
If I were doing it in my head, I’d probably say that 500 – 475 = 25. 511 – 500 = 11. 11 + 25 = 36. Basically the third method without the silly little 1 added.
If you can buy a home free and clear (either owned a home in SD that you paid off or owned a home somewhere else which you sold and used to pay for a home in SD), San Diego is relatively cheap.
Low food costs (that may change with drought).
Low/nil HVAC costs.
Low property tax.
In many places, ownership is a lease regardless of who owns the land. I know that a friend who had an apartment in London had to pay through the nose to renew their “ground lease”, which was separate from owning the apartment.
Even in NYC, most apartments have a 50-60 year “proprietary lease” which generally auto-renews. Except if the building itself is on leased land, then it’s dependent on the land lease.
The beautiful thing about having a business credit card and bank account with a very generic name is that you can get “trade” discounts in all sorts of places without really being entitled to them…
