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Definately not. If Oil City became expensive, I would cash out, sell the house and find another place I love that is affordable. My hard earned money will not go to waste!
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Definately not. If Oil City became expensive, I would cash out, sell the house and find another place I love that is affordable. My hard earned money will not go to waste!
Well, if it doesn't go to waste it'll only go to your survivors
Definitely. Life is too short to live in a place that you hate.
I don't think many people will argue otherwise, but the difference lies in how they define "place". For some people, that place is a house, and if you give them a nice home, they can come back from the end of their work day whether it is in Kansas or San Francisco and be perfectly happy day in and day out because they love their house. For others, that "place" means a larger community, such as a neighborhood, a city, a state, or perhaps even a country. For me, I fall in the latter. I'd rather live in a cramped studio apartment in a place I love like San Francisco rather than a mansion in someplace like.....Baghdad, any day of the week.
Yes, most definitely it's worth it. If it wasn't, I'd have joined the Great Migration that so many other LI'ers seem to be part of.
I define "place" as whatever (be it house, neighborhood, community, city, township, county, state, etc) makes it where you most want to be. Often it's a combination of some or all of those things.
As many here already know, I love Long Island and my only gripe with it is the property tax system as it currently exists. It's a major gripe, to be sure, but I'm not willing to pay the emotional price of leaving LI in order to change that scenario. I too would rather live in a cottage on LI than a McMansion somewhere else, and who knows? someday that might well be the case, LOL! But that's just me, and my personal preference. I understand why others can and do feel differently.
To flip the question around-- is it worth the opportunity costs of living in a place you love but has no good jobs (even if the "price" is cheap)?
I'd say if you have to work for a living, the answer is no, unfortunately.
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