Misconception

I finally got around to taking pictures of my new house and made a PDF and sent it out to friends and family.  One of my cousins wrote back saying that I must really like Albany since I bought a house out here.  Heh.  The opposite is nearly true.  I bought a house here because I don't think I could stand it if I were living in an apartment surrounded by knuckleheads and white trash.  I don't like it here at all.  There are some nice people that I met through the hiking group, but I can tell that I can't live here for too long or I'll go crazy.  I pretty much dread going to work because it's a giant time suck.  I feel that I have a lot to offer, but no one's really asking.  Most people are slaves to arbitrary timelines that tell you to run a certain amount of lots in a certain time period.

I don't consider my house to be a financial anchor.  If I'm really hard up, I'll just walk away from it since I haven't put that much money into it.  I think the market will go up and I live in the best school district in the area so the house should be in demand if I need to sell it.  I figure that I'll work here another 2.5 years so that I've got about three years on my CV and then bail.  I'll keep the house and rent it out.