Of Houses and Fathers

[mishalak]

I spent most of the day with my Dad looking at houses. I do this to humor him because he still regards my life as broken and so he wants to fix it. I don't regard my life as broken in the same way he does. He thinks that I ought to work more so that I can get a big house and have financial security. The idea of working more, say working as hard as if I had a second job fixing up a house, just to move out into another one is rather off putting. I'd rather keep living in an apartment and wait for a house I'd want to move into and keep.

Does that make sense? I'm seeing it as undesirable to work harder for just more money, but desirable to get a house I intend to keep fixed up the way I want. I'm unhappy with my life, but I am not unhappy enough to do radical amounts of work to change it.

A Bit of Clarification
What my Dad was suggesting was that we buy this house in south Aurora and fix it up and sell it in two or three years. Make $50,000 profit on it and move on to another house and possibly doing the same thing until I could afford my dream house. I really don't want to be doing that. If I were to be involved in a massive fix up project for years I'd want it to be my own home and I would not care if the house was small or something. I'm not looking for the same thing my dad does, which is some sort of huge monster house.

Comments

[dlacey.livejournal.com]

It sounds very reasonable to me. I hope to own a house someday myself but I wouldn't dream of buying unless I knew I was going to stay somewhere, at least for a decade. And that's definately not where I am now. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that you've mentioned the possibility of relocating as well.

Relocations

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Yes I have. I would be hard to leave behind the wonderful clime of Denver, but if I thought I could get a really good job somewhere with a good fandom I think I would. Though at this point I'm mostly worried about having to relocate a lot inside Denver as I get different jobs. I don't want to be one of those people who ends up driving for an hour to work. Right now my commute is 30 minutes and I want to keep it that way.