I told you guys about apartment searching in London, right? We looked up what we thought was our monthly mortgage payment converted to pounds. Found some VERY SMALL (600 sq. ft) flats that we might have wanted. Then we noticed the rates were WEEKLY. I'm scared to think of what the ones we could have afforded looked like.
4 times our mortgage with roughly a third of the square footage. Needless to say, we stopped considering London as an option.
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What I could rent in Michigan and be closer to my family.
Wow, that's nice. But would you have the same income in Michigan?
Tempting, then.
(eta: aside from the whole Winter issue. Another thing that is beyond my ken)
Sometimes, I really really wonder what the heck I am still doing here.
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I need to be banned from Craigs List.
Those are some cute houses. I love the Craftsman one.
What we pay for this three-bedroom condo outside of Philly is outrageous. It's a great town, with good schools, and it's very pretty, but the rent is eating us alive, starting with our bottoms.
OMG, I could afford that.
And then I would freeze to death. Or that thing where you go crazy from not going outside for months at a time.