Thinking about just renting a unit instead of owning- anyone else doing this ?

[rgmwa]

8 hours ago, randomx said:

Haaaa, bloody classic.

Most of the still married guys say stuff like that , cracks me up. Been awhile l forget all that part of it but talking to ex just the other night actually and coincidently all that stuff came flooding back right there.

Doesn't this wants that needs to this must do that eat this don;t that man, on and on and on, forgot what it was like.

And that was just all her ideas coming out for herself , while we're talking but, got off the phone thinking jezuz thk God she's not running my show too- back to my bliss, ahhh.

Actually ,,while she was at it though,  she did tell me what to do too  🤣🤣 - just stay there, extend your place, who cares. She lives in the middle of Sydney now, she use to come over to the cabin here with me back in the day though, we'd tidy up and stuff.

Leave your ex in Sydney, stay where you are, extend your place and get a dog. 😊

[randomx]

3 hours ago, rgmwa said:

You can be just as lonely renting somewhere else. If everything is pretty good where you are now, apart from the distance to a larger town, maybe it's being on your own too much that's the main problem?

Weird really. Never felt it like this anywhere, although l've been married or partnered up so but you are right though nonetheless.

Yep, ex in in Sydney safe enough 12hrs drive from me  🤣 .

Been thinking about a dog but yeah l'm def on my own too much. Not much l can do about it though go out as much as l can and get around people.

 

 

 

 

 

[willedoo]

randomx, if I dial the clock back to 1988, I was looking to buy my own place. I was divided between two different ways to go, buy a house in town or buy acreage and build. The acreage thing was a natural as I was born and bred on farms and not a town person. But at the time I was working away fifo style, and I thought a house in town would be a good option to fit that lifestyle. Low maintenance, just breeze in and out, hang your hat on the wall when you get home and just lock it up when you go back to work. At the time real estate was dirt cheap and I looked at one nice little two bedroom brick veneer I could have bought for $42,000. It was on the edge of town with all bush at the back and walking distance to the beach and shops.

 

As it was, I ended up buying an acerage block, about 17 acres which I later extended to 20. It was totally undeveloped and real pioneering stuff in the beginning with an old Millard caravan, lighting from the car battery and a 60 gallon drum for a donkey hot water system. Almost 38 years later, I'm still here and glad I did buy the bush block. Facilities and infrastructure have improved a lot but I'll still be working on the place until I drop dead. That's probably a good thing and better than dying of boredom in a nursing home. In town I'd probably feel like a budgie in a cage. But it will always be in the back of my mind what life would have been like if I'd bought that house in town. Certainly a lot easier, but maybe not as interesting.

[willedoo]

Forgot to mention, I never did make that decision to buy a bush block rather than a house in town. It just happened that way. I was still looking at both types and when my place came up for sale, I knew straight away it was a rare opportunity and I'd be crazy not to buy it. So the decision was kind of made for me in that way. It never even got advertised. I was just lucky to ring the agent on the same day as he listed it. He drove me there to have a look and I signed the contract the next morning. It was a rare find in the position it is.