Little pissed off this a.m. - goddamned underwriters need convincing it seems, that I’m not out of my mind (a long and difficult thing to explain as a whole, but in certain areas, far simpler; this is one of them) for selling one house to buy another worth only 1/3rd as much.

Dolts! I’m doing it to save a crap-load of cash for important things - kids’ education, my own retirement (assuming I don’t keel over dead first; better up the life insurance, as I think of it). Amazing, after everything this country’s been through, that people question the responsibility of moving to a cheaper place.