One of the benefits of small towns: our mortgage payment is only about 30% more than my wife was paying for a one bedroom apartment in Dallas, and less than double my rent on an efficiency there. She was up to the same pay that she was getting there within a couple of years of getting settled here.Liberty wrote:Apartment living is a real lack of freedom and just a little better than living in a halfway house. yuck..
I can't quite use the front porch as an extra bathroom or put a target range in the backyard, but at least I'm not sharing walls with some of the people I was stuck with up there. (and our land is just over five minutes' drive from the house, so it's not like we can't go shooting anytime the weather and ammo supplies cooperate)