[bgill]

The trick is to buy a modest home, and not buy more than you can afford. Fix up your modest home, and it will be worth more as time passes.

And will be taxed more and more and more as you fix it up and time passes. Eventually, you'll be taxed out of your home and then what? That's where our neighborhood is.

[kaila]

Then you take your equity, and move. If you rent, you would be facing the same problem without equity to cushion the blow of moving.