Am I Just Naive
I caught the traveling bug years ago while moving halfway across country by car. I have since traveled by bus, by car and by train half way across the country several times and really enjoyed it. I ...
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The following thoughts are solely based on my own life experience. Others may have different points of view.
- A house can be a bottomless pit of expense, debt and time spent repairing and/or maintaining things.
- Typically, a home should not be viewed as an investment, because there is usually (at least for many Americans) a huge liability posted against it. True "Investments" do not.
- Hopefully home prices never skyrocket as they did a few years ago, because the result is unaffordable shelter and huge increases in debt (based on the behavior of Americans in recent years.) Instead, prices should rise at, or below, the rate of inflation.
- Just because a child is home schooled, does not mean they will live in an isolated bubble. There are still many socializing opportunities. We are likely heading down this path with our children in the fall.
- I have never met an adult that can't speak, because they started talking at a later point in childhood. In fact, several of the brightest children I've met, were late talkers.
- Dare to be different. Nothing great has ever been accomplished being mainstream.
- A house can be a bottomless pit of expense, debt and time spent repairing and/or maintaining things.
- Typically, a home should not be viewed as an investment, because there is usually (at least for many Americans) a huge liability posted against it. True "Investments" do not.
- Hopefully home prices never skyrocket as they did a few years ago, because the result is unaffordable shelter and huge increases in debt (based on the behavior of Americans in recent years.) Instead, prices should rise at, or below, the rate of inflation.
- Just because a child is home schooled, does not mean they will live in an isolated bubble. There are still many socializing opportunities. We are likely heading down this path with our children in the fall.
- I have never met an adult that can't speak, because they started talking at a later point in childhood. In fact, several of the brightest children I've met, were late talkers.
- Dare to be different. Nothing great has ever been accomplished being mainstream.
