Oh, the joys of homeownership.
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Isn't that the truth?
I'm still trying to sell Mrs.L the benefits of moving to NE Texas and living in a gorgeous facility which offers two squares a day, daily maid service, laundry service as needed, fifty cable channels, no insurance, no property taxes, no utility bills, local phone service, for the princely price of $1400/month.
$1,400 a month, and all those services? Sounds good to me. Living in the SF Bay area as we do, we have a massive mortgage, and property taxes to match. I'm still working on hubby, trying to convince him that it might not be a bad idea to move to a less costly area once he retires. That is still quite a number of years away, not even close really, but I've got to start planting the seed. He seems to think that there is nowhere else on the face of the earth to live besides the bay area. Having lived many other places myself, I would beg to differ.