Apropos of all this, yours truly is hammering out the details - legal & financial - to sell the current Palace of Domestic & Filial Harmony and buy the Southern Palace of Domestic & Filial Harmony.

Selling big-ass Austin house to buy another one, in another county, valued at 1/3rd my current residence. I took one look at the assessments of our place, and saw what the houses by us were selling at, and concluded that a guy like me had no business owning a house that valuable.