He hates your winter weather, though.

Probably.

500k in Indy gets you a 5000 sq ft house (including the finished basement) on a golf course. 20 mins to downtown.

But who wants to live in a cookie-cutter McMansion in a neighborhood that looks like it popped up from razed farmland devoid of trees?



(Don't mind me. I'm moody because I'm painting my small, crappy house this weekend.)

I have one of those too, but I sure don't mind.

I know my problems aren't very significant, in a big picture way, and I really wouldn't mind so much if my small, crappy house didn't feel like an anchor. I bought at the top of the market, so it's worth about 80% of what I paid, and what I'm paying monthly on it leaves little discretionary funds. When I realized that people who bough just two years before me are paying significantly less per month for their larger, nicer homes....


Wahhhh, I know. I need to move on and look at the good stuff, which there really is a lot of.

For instance, it's freshly painted!

You just have to learn to embrace the cold while you sit inside a well insulated living room with a hot fire snapping sipping cocoa with marshmallows flavored with a splash of peppermint schnapps.

I'm lucky in the fact I bought over 11 years ago when the market here was low. Nice LOW payment, my neighbor pays over double what I pay. He bought in the middle of the big boom.

There Peter, now doesn't that make you feel better?