re: #227 makeitstop

That drove a lot of it. If all your friends have McMansions, WTF is wrong with you not having one?

That’s why we went cheap. The guy handling our mortgage was actually pissed that we didn’t bite on the ridiculously huge mortgage. Less money for him.

Meanwhile, we can go out to dinner and take vacations if we want. We’re not zillionaires, but if we took what the bank wanted us to take we’d have this huge house and be trapped in it. No, thanks.

Same here, we went into a condo. We didn’t want to be “house poor”.