Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:42:16 -0600
From: BreadWithSpam@fractious.net
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: Re: How are people living in retirement?
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"John A. Weeks III"  writes:
>  BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:

> > had all windows replaced a couple of years ago.  I expect
> > Jan to be closer to $500.  And, again, that's just the gas.
> 
> My house payment is only $500, and I live in a fairly nice
> neighborhood in a new home.  You would be better off to burn
> down that house and buy something new.  At least you would
> build equity on that $500 rather than sending it up the
> chimney.

It's a modest home in excellent shape.  A new home wouldn't
be any more efficient.  It's simply expensive to live in 
the cold northeast.  Natural gas is expensive.  Period.
One could get better efficiency (per person) in multifamily
housing - apartments - but this is about as good as a
normal single-family house gets around here.  I'm sure that
with some substantial expenditure in high-tech stuff, one
could get slightly better efficiency out of a single-family,
but it's be awfully hard to do much better.


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