re: #7 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I love Kate and McMansion Hell but I have also come to realize that I am at least partly guilty myself. True, my century old Craftsman house is about as far from being a McMansion as it could be, but it is too big and, especially, too isolated. There is an element of truth in my daughter’s joke that my house is a museum and I actually live in my workshop. That is part of the reason, a small part, that I have struggled with depression in recent years, though thankfully not so much the past year or so. It is also why I continue to consider moving. I keep looking at houses in other parts of the country, more crowded parts.

I think if I were to win the lotto, I’d buy a Miata and put a trailer hitch on it, get one of those little teardrop trailers or perhaps a micro house on wheels and only keep what I could pack up in it, and live on the road for however long I felt like it.