It may be enviable from one perspective, Vam, but there is a price to
pay.   Not that that's an excuse for anything.  There are always
prices to pay.  But it's true as some wiseacre once said, there's no
such thing as a free lunch.

On Mar 1, 8:50 pm, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow, Gruff, don't I envy your unliable state of such delectable
> freedoms !  Seriously.
>
> On 2 Mar, 00:32, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I may be the outlaw, outlier, oddball on this issue, but I've always
> > regarded property as owning you rather than you owning property.  You
> > never finish paying for it (assessments, property taxes, maintenance,
> > etc.).  You have to pay fees and commissions to buy property and pay
> > fees and commissions again when you sell it.  You have to protect it
> > with homestead declarations and a plethora of insurance to cover all
> > the possibilities that insurance does it's best to exempt itself from
> > paying.  You can't pack up your property and move it to a new location
> > if you get some lousy neighbors, and you're always subject to lawsuits
> > and other claims from careless transgressors, trespassers and
> > tradesmen.   Owning property has never struck me as such a good
> > deal.
>
> > I own my RV which, since it's got wheels, fulfills my primary
> > consideration -- mobility.  I have no insurance on anything except for
> > the absolute minimum required by law (liability only).  Of course I
> > also have no responsibilities: no wife, no kids, no debt, no property,
> > and no headaches.

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