[darkpuppet]

P-51,Nov 15 2005, 01: Wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Don't buy a house unless you want a house.  Period.

I NEEDED to have a back yard, and a garage, and a basement.  Because of all my hobbies (R/C stuff, Car stuff, kid on the way... etc.)

You already said you would feel out of place in the burbs, or lonely or whatever.  Sounds like maybe you are happier in an appartment.
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Yeah, I hear ya... but staying in the city isn't really getting me anywhere anyways... it's high time I start seriously looking at buying some property.

Instead of running my nitrous R/C truck on the balcony, storing my bike in my living room (with the snowboard), working on my car in a parking garage 13 stories below where I live, mooching off of everyone else's barbeque, patio, etc.. and paying 1,500/mo for that privelege? Sure I have easy access to some decent mountainbiking, and everything the city has to offer, but it may be high time to re-adjust my priorities from beer and wings to my other more, productive hobbies.

while I'm not particularily ready for a house now, the five year plan would probably love it.