Houses Available

That’s the thing I’ve discovered over the past year observing the housing market and researching what living options are available for me. Houses are expensive but not that expensive and if I wanted to sell some stock, cut a big check, I could buy a house, no mortgage or bank involved.

Yet, every house I’ve looked at really isn’t what I want. Suburban houses and especially houses in the city are so generic. Same vinyl siding, shag carpet, white walls, neighbors near by. Same old natural gas or oil heating system that drinks energy. Vast spaces to heat and cool, rooms to light and appliances to feed their vast amount of energy. Most require an automobile to get to and from, with all the expensive tickets handed out by cops, court appearances, gasoline and insurance that must be burned every week. I could tolerate driving, but not for complete crap plastic suburbanite’s building that I despise.

Truth is that what I want to land, buffer from the neighbors. I want to be able to have fires, burn trash and debris, ride four-wheeler and shoot guns, have smelly livestock like pigs and manure, guts and compost piles without causing a nuisance of having code enforcement and the cops on my ass. I could tolerate driving to work for the good life, especially if we finally moved to a part-time remote like so many other agencies are doing. But it has to be truly rural, in a place I actually love. Not this suburbanite crap, that comes a dime a dozen.